This weekend, Division Street between Damen & Hermitage was buzzing with fashionable excitement. There were outdoor runway shows, live music, food, and shopping featuring local boutiques, fashion designers, and salons. The designers and boutiques included Le Dress, Frill, Elevenzees, Elda de la Rosa, M.GO Fashion Salon Collection, Steven Papageorge Academy, and designer Michelle Tan. Wicker Park …
The Service Club of Chicago, an all women’s organization founded in 1890, held its annual holiday luncheon at the University Club on Michigan Avenue on Thursday, December 1. Event chair and long-time member Sheree Valukas welcomed a lovely crowd of 150 guests. Guests were entertained by the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus while designers and boutiques sold their holiday goods, gifts …
Elda De la Rosa unveiled her latest collection of couture evening and cocktail dresses in a trunk show in the Grant Park I room at the Peninsula Hotel on Saturday, November 5. Models graced the room in De la Rosa’s signature intricately detailed gowns and tea length taffeta cocktail dresses. Guest enjoyed champagne, wine and …
Next Fashion Chicago 2011 (in association with Mandel Productions, Benjamin Cottrell and Marco Foster) opened fashion week on Monday night with the first fashion show hosted by Chicago’s very own Philanthropist and Social Scribe Candace Jordan and Marcus Riley, Multimedia Reporter of NBC5 Chicago. Several Chicago designers showcased their latest fashion on the runway in …
Only for arguably the biggest fashion event in Chicago, is it necessary to have a huge party to kick off a huge party. And that is exactly what Chicago’s fashion community served up last week at the Glamorama Exclusive Launch Party. Held in the sleek, airy space of Room 1520—an unassuming loft space nestled …
