A relatively new, but quite dear, friend recently called me from an impromptu shopping trip for advice on (what else?) a handbag. Her quandary? Do I get the Celine tote in basic black or taupe embossed croc? You, dear reader, know my answer of course – the fashion forward one. The question you see was …
Originally the Navajo trend didn’t really do it for me, but I have more than warmed up to the idea. Think Santa Fe prints, mixed with a bit of suede fringe and a pair of beat up (looking) cowboy inspired booties and you pretty much have the trend nailed. Once I saw Burberry Prorsum’s hand-painted …
Hosts of Horacios Nieto’s “Mining the Ming Dynasty” exhibition, Susanna Negovan and Marcus Riley Few can bring Chicago’s fashion finest together to the same place on the same night—but Horacio Nieto is one of those few. The award-winning designer revisited the swanky space of Loft on Lake for his Fall/Winter 2011 exhibition, titled “Mining the …
