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By Jacqueline Rezak
I would like to introduce you to the extremely talented designer, Annie Havlicek. Havlicek is a Chicago girl born and bread. Growing up she spent much of her time studying fine art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She then ventured off to New York City where she attended Parsons [...]
Today we are bringing you something different for our weekly “Designers Who Work It” series. As we are at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week this week, we are seeing and meeting designers galore and showcasing their talent to you every day during this exciting affair! Today I had the absolute pleasure to have a discussion with Senior [...]
This week we offer the readers of TheWorkingWardrobe a little treat. As part of our weekly Designers Who Work It series, we are proud to bring you an interview with not only one of the leading Windy City designers, but also on the forefront of sustainability design. So we are so excited to have our [...]
Kate Coxworth, the genius behind fashion label Kate Boggiano, famous for its gorgeous ruffled blouses and jackets along with camisoles and leggings, didn’t start out with ruffles on the brain. “I was a total science geek,” said Coxworth. At Indiana University, Coxworth worked as a pre-med student for 2 1/2 years. “I never thought fashion [...]
You may have an amazing suit, with a pair of amazing shoes and a fantastic handbag – but you still blend into the crowd during your work event. Jewelry is one of the easiest tools to stand out in a crowd and even draw people to you with a gasp exclaiming, “I love your necklace!”, [...]
After Chicago designer Lauren Lein arranged for TheWorkingWardrobe to cover the process of a clothing fitting for our readers, she mentioned how great it would be to not only follow up with how her finished clothing looked on the client I met, attorney Allison, but also on two of her other clients who wore her [...]
Chicago designer extraordinaire Lauren Lein gave me a call a few months ago to tell me about a new client of hers, Allison Walton, a Chicago attorney who needed some new items of clothing and was coming in for a fitting. Both Lauren and Allison were kind enough to invite me along to cover the [...]
My first pair of “work shoes” that I purchased I still wear to this day as they are simple, comfortable, and very well-made. They are a pair of pointy-toed leather salmon-colored Kenneth Cole pumps, and they are still one of my all-time favorite pair of shoes in my personal collection. As I mentioned, they are [...]
Alice Berry has been working in design for the past 25 years – not necessarily in the same fashion. Working as a clothing designer at the beginning of her career, she decided to cut clothing out of her designs in 1997. Until 2000, Berry went from having a name in the clothing industry to making [...]
When I think “dress” my thoughts immediately gravitate towards the iconic wrap dress that flatters seemingly every body type. So would I miss the event with the creator of the wrap dress available to meet and then see her Resort 2010 collection strut a runway? Of course not! Diane von Furstenberg was available at Neiman [...]
