Carolyn Rosenberg’s Handmade Collars Ikram Goldman, owner of Ikram in Chicago, can barely keep Carolyn Rosenberg’s handmade collars in stock at her namesake boutique, and has sold over 60 collars since September! These collars retail from $1,200 to $1,500, and have been quite a hit not only for the designer, but the boutique owner as …
Ikram Goldman Congratulations to Chicago's Ikram Goldman! The legendary local retailer and famed adviser to The First Lady has been tapped to receive the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Legend of Fashion Award. The award will be presented to Goldman by Sally Singer, editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, during …
Tory Burch just added online guides to the all of the cities where she has boutiques, and luckily Chicago is one of them! I anxiously received the list as I was excited to see what she would pick. At a glance I nodded, and thought "Yes, yes," and smiled in agreement. I have lived in …
A sad day to Chicago fashionistas everywhere. Ultimo, one of Chicago's premiere fashion boutique, an influential mecca of high-end fashion for more than four decades, is closing its doors to the public at the end of January. The Oak Street boutique founded by the late Joan Weinstein was introduced to Chicago to European designers such as …
So sad…Joan Weinstein died at age 74 of heart failure last weekend in Miami. Weinstein was fashion force in Chicago due to her influential boutique Ultimo. Weinstein and her husband Jerry opened Ultimo on Oak Street in 1969. She quickly became an avid, early supporter of European designers, such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Giorgio …
