Fashion Fallout. Saks Shifts Gears Back Into High End. Second City Style Fashion Blog

Image, fashion labels get makeover as chain sheds midlevel stores Associated Press, September 15, 2006 Chicago Tribune NEW YORK — After struggling with the wrong fashion formula that skewed too young, Saks Fifth Avenue wants to reclaim its status among the well-heeled with a makeover. The chain’s new management is rebuilding its store-label fashions, investing …

Fashion Focus Chicago. Check It Out. What's It All About? Second City Style Fashion Blog

Fashion Focus Chicago begins Wednesday and runs for 12 days! Second City Style will be everywhere and we are already exhausted just planning who will be where. Here are my thoughts about the extravaganza. Our (Chicago’s) fashion week is consumer driven. So unlike the shows in NYC, LA, Paris, London and Milan…we will be seeing …

An Interview with Stacy-Wallace Albert

The Shopping & Style editor of Chicago magazine

Fashion Week Spring '07. More Vera Wang. Second City Style Fashion Blog

Man, I do love her clothes. Good thing I can afford Kohl’s. Wang’s look is so perfected and honed that it is easy to recognize her designs in a sea of designer labels. For her spring collection she played with bubble hems, skinny cropped pants, tunics, tulle and her usual silk faille. Truly spectacular.   …