Sole Mates

Think shoes obsess you? You’ve got nothing on these store owners and buyers, who can sum up your style in a glance. Their choices will always be right on trend, and they insist that comfort is as important as style

Forward to Fall

I am writing this in the summer, just after a fitting for my gorgeous new black cashmere coat, a design by Maria Pinto, one of Chicago’s exemplars of elegance. When I was in her atelier, it was 90 degrees outside, and she and I were discussing how we must think about the seasons six months … Read more