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For all the audacity of The Met Gala, for all the glitz and glamor of the red carpet, to a fashion fan with a taste for history, there’s something almost magical about the days when “House of ” telegraphed a kind of gravitas, and a salon was a sanctum where women of means, more than

CHICAGO: PREEMINENTLY PICASSO

A one hundred and thirty years since Pablo Picasso’s career as a painter is considered to have begun with his entry into Barcelona’s Escola Provincial de Belles Arts, the artist’s legacy remains a universal force. The late Richard Gray, legendary Chicago collector and one of this country’s foremost art dealers once wrote, “No one involved

MENDEL’S NEW HOUSE OF FASHION

It was the wedding dress that clinched it. When world-famous fashion designer Gilles Mendel and his daughter Chloé got together to design the gown for Chloé’s wedding to rock star Billy Corgan, the experience was so enjoyable that they decided to keep the collaboration going. House of Gilles, their new atelier in New York City,

A BRIDGE TO CONSERVATION

When Roger Deromedi semi-retired in 2006, he turned his sights to the ravine on his property in Lake Forest “Our portion of the Mayflower Ravine had been scoured down four-tofive feet in the last 100 years,” explains Roger, a Lake Forest resident for more than 30 years. “The sides were collapsing. The trees were falling

CUFF OR NO CUFF

Menswear aficionado Daniel George knows his worth and isn’t shy about acknowledging it. He began his career in San Francisco with gigs at Saks and Alfred Dunhill London when he realized, “I ain’t half bad when it comes to custom clothing.” He launched his own business in 1998. After “kitting” out such clients as Oracle

OPENING THE CONVERSATION

Dr. Shikha Jain is a triple board-certified hematologist and oncologist, and a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago, where she cares deeply for oncology patients, and leads initiatives in communication strategies and digital innovation in oncology at the University of Illinois Cancer Center. There is definitive data showing that

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