Style
Friday, May 25, 2012
Style Street View 012: Day + Night
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 05.25.12 at 11:38 AM
Street View is a series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights fascinatingly fashionable Chicagoans.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Style Randolph Street Market, discounts, and other weekend fashion sales and events
Posted by Heather Kenny on 05.24.12 at 03:40 PM
- squashtbyles.com
- The "Coming & Going" dress from Squasht by Les
This weekend pricey boutique Intermix is holding sales at all of its Chicago locations—Gold Coast (40 E. Delaware), Bucktown (1633 N. Damen), and Lincoln Park (841 W. Armitage)—as well as online, with discounts of up to 70 percent.
Fix Boutique (1101 W. Fulton) is calling it quits and will close up on June 30, perhaps officially putting the dream of a West Loop shopping district to a merciful end. Until then, discounts start at 40 percent.
Squasht, the home of local women's label Squasht by Les, is celebrating its two-year anniversary on Sunday with drinks, food, raffles, giveaways, and 20 percent off everything. It's from 3 to 8 at 2556 W. Chicago.
Style Vacation Week Vacation style
Posted by Heather Kenny on 05.24.12 at 06:54 AM
- Tom Godber/Flickr
The number one piece of vacation wardrobe advice I give is: don’t buy a whole new wardrobe or dress totally differently from the way you normally do. I understand some people want to escape from their normal lives, but you can’t escape you. If you are more of a jeans and a T-shirt type in regular life, most likely you are not going to transform into a person who feels comfortable wearing fetching little printed cotton shift dresses with cardigans in Montreal or Buenos Aires or Shanghai or wherever. Look at what you like to wear most, then choose the most travel-friendly pieces and work from there.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Style Street View 011: Najee + Don't Fret
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 05.22.12 at 12:59 PM
Street View is a series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights fascinatingly fashionable Chicagoans.
Najee's hair rules at all occasions. The first time I ever saw him he was wearing a turban. He is a designer and manager at Sir & Madame, a boutique located on Damen just south of Augusta. He is standing by an authentic "Don't Fret," who is actually looking pretty fly himself.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Style Street View 010: Fun + Classy
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 05.21.12 at 11:30 AM
Street View is a series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights fascinatingly fashionable Chicagoans.
Sandra looked stunning as she crossed the DuSable Bridge. She has worked in design all her life, and it shows. She said she got her flair from her Italian mom. "Italians are way more stylish than the French," she whispered.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Style Arts Style Week How I learned to never go out of style
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on 05.19.12 at 09:37 AM
As far as such icons go, this one's elusive—more obscure than an Audrey or Katharine, but no less chic. She was at the height of her visibility from the late 40s to late 60s, which makes evidence of her contributions hard to come by today. You might glimpse her on the A&E Channel, if it were to air the 2001 episode of Biography titled "Jackie Gleason: The Great One," in which she discusses the 13 years she spent as Gleason’s (mostly) live-in girlfriend. (What she doesn’t talk about on the show was how she dressed the rotund comic genius, picking out fabrics for his custom-made Earl Benham suits, his Sulka dress shirts, the Bronzini ties that had to be lengthened four inches for him.) I once spotted her in a creaky record store, on the cover of the Gleason album The Torch With the Blue Flame, which was released by Capitol Records in 1959 (when she was 27) and imparted new meaning, at least for me, to the songs "I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face" and "My Silent Love"—songs she later claimed to have helped him choose. The photo itself was taken a year earlier, in the living room at Gleason’s "Round House" in Peekskill, New York. She had recently moved in.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Style Narcissism Style Week Facehunter and me: a story of admiration and rejection
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 05.18.12 at 06:46 AM
- Gaia Boutique Club
- That is NOT me
I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that blog. Those people were everything I wanted to be, and hey, I could be, because they were just regular folks walking down the street. Face Hunter brought me hope. But it also brought me a lot of heartache.
I was still living in Brazil when Yvan came shoot at São Paulo Fashion Week. Since I was contributing to a street style blog, I got my first SPFW media pass. I felt great. And I wanted to be on the Face Hunter. So I put a foot-long bow on my head, some crazy geometric print dress, a pair of yellow sandals on top of black tights, and preyed. I was hunting the hunter.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Style Street View 009: Neutrals + Rock & Roll
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 05.17.12 at 09:19 AM
Street View is a series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights fascinatingly fashionable Chicagoans.
Caylee has this cool rock-and-roll attitude, but at the same time so feminine, fresh, and chic: a feat only achieved by sartorial masters like Emmanuelle Alt and Kate Moss. See more of Caylee's looks in her blog, If You Seek Style.
Style Stylish events through the weekend
Posted by Heather Kenny on 05.17.12 at 08:58 AM
Style Seriously? Style Week Why a cape?
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 05.17.12 at 06:47 AM
- Shutterstock / Nancy Catherine Walker
- Outfit for a 60-degree spring day (shoes not included)
But if you're a fashion-forward cape owner unlike myself, I've been a little jealous of you these past few weeks. Still hungover from the glorious summery March, the city has lately been forced to deal with more fluctuating, Chicago-like temperatures, including rain every Saturday for seemingly the past six weeks. Yesterday was sunny and pleasant but with a slight chill in the air—the perfect opportunity to shroud myself in a sleeveless, flowing garment that will both keep my back warm and allow me extravagant flourishes if the breeze hits just right.
