Chicago Fashion Foundation: A City Within a City Fashion Show and Design Competition

On April 2, the Chicago Fashion Foundation held its eighth annual fashion show and design competition, titled “A City Within a City,” at the Chicago Cultural Center. This year, the competition required fashion design students to create a look inspired by the Merchandise Mart. Fourteen competitors from Columbia College Chicago, Harper College and the School …

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Chicago Events. The Tenth Anniversary Celebration of The Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence

  The city has been bustling with fashion activity all week! and Friday night will be no exception as philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus and his wife Inese Driehaus gear up to host The Tenth Anniversary Celebration of The Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence at 700 S. Des Plaines Avenue. This most elegant of affairs is …

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Fashion Focus Chicago 2010. Dress Code 2010: Off The Grid

The Dress Code stage featuring Seth Mayerink-Griffin from SAIC One of the main highlights of each year's Fashion Focus Chicago is the Thursday night show, Dress Code. The stage is set exclusively for students, the next generation of design talent and innovation hailing from four of the city's premiere art and design institutions: School of …

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