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Before debuting the internationally recognized women’s ready-to-wear boutique athene on the North Shore in fall 2016, Ashley Quicksilver thought of fashion as a creative outlet, one rooted in childhood shopping trips with her grandmother. “I would style entire seasonal wardrobes for both of us,” says Quicksilver. “I was good at it, and that gave me

Chloé Mendel recalls after-school walks home along the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she grew up, and fond memories of her regular visits to her father’s J. Mendel workroom, located just next door to their residence. As a young girl, Mendel was captivated by the trade and traditions of the multi-generations of furriers in

With a Princeton undergraduate degree, a law degree from Georgetown, and legal experience ranging from corporate litigation in New York City to serving as Delaware’s Deputy Attorney General, Winnetka’s Stephanie Hochschild is uniquely qualified to take on any number of challenges. But what she chose to do, some eight years ago, is to devote her

How many of us can say we still apply—or even remember—the skills we learned in school to our careers now? For artist Zak Rose, the classes and coursework he took at Kenyon College still drive the design work he does today—even though his degree is in English. “Near the end of my time at Kenyon,