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Made in the USA
In the old days, it was easy to find fashionable, high-quality guys’ clothes, shoes, and accessories that were made in the USA...
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Clyde sans Bonnie
Flood damage forced the Wicker Park men’s and women’s avant-garde clothing boutique Bonnie & Clyde’s to shutter back in March...
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HOME WORKS: The owner of several self-titled galleries and former Art Institute instructor on the Leica M9-P camera, Maison Martin Margiela tennis shoes, and more
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Flower Power
Chicago’s odors can assault the senses in the best—and worst—possible ways. The smell of freshly-popped Garrett popcorn or the endorphin-inducing aroma of the Blommer Chocolate factory? Good...
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Bo Still Knows
After closing in March for renovations, Nike Chicago (669 N. Michigan Ave., 312-642-6363) reopened its Michigan Avenue flagship store last week...
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So You Think You Can Design?
Custom design is completely addicting. (As proof, just play around with NikeiD’s sneaker maker or Jonathan Adler’s furniture customizer for a few minutes . . . or hours.) Chicago has its own DIY design enabler in 1154 Lill Studio...
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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Saying goodbye to summer doesn’t have to be all that sad, especially when the women’s clothing designer Cynthia Rowley holds a huge end-of-season sale in Bucktown...
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Nouveau Old
Wicker Park has long been a destination for second-hand clothes and thrift scores, and two recent openings are putting Milwaukee Avenue back on the vintage lover’s map...
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Fashion’s Night Out
New York Fashion Week kicks off this Thursday, September 6. That evening, in keeping with a more-the-merrier tradition started four years ago by Vogue’s Anna Wintour...
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Extra Chic
As Jessica Blair recalls, the evidence of the lack of full-figured fashion in Chicago was once in her own closet...
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Last Call
It’s going to be hard to walk out the front door this weekend without running into a festival, whether it’s West Town’s Food Truck Social, the South Loop’s Bash on Wabash, the West Loop’s Fashion in the Streets and Randolph Street Market, or the Bucktown Arts Festival. And that’s just to name a few...
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Coach House
The newly remodeled Coach (625 N. Michigan Ave., 312-587-3167, coach.com) is a little larger, a tad brighter, and a whole lot friendlier to dudes...
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Cool Britannia
From London Olympics fever to Duchess Kate topping Vanity Fair’s international best dressed list, the Brits are captivating us in practically every category...
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Summer School
Study Hall (912 N. Ashland Ave., 312-733-4255, shopstudyhall.com), a new boutique in West Town, opened its doors last week with a concept that loosely mimics the academic semester...
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