August 8, 2007

Bop It Like It’s Hot Online

Shopbop Designer Launch

To Whom It May Concern: As dean of the department of fashademeia, it has been ...

  Fashion

August 7, 2007

A Religious Experience Chicago

Grace Opens

Let us pray. We bow our heads in gratitude for Bucktown’s latest boutique. Our prayers ...

  Fashion

April 18, 2007

Intermix and Mingle Chicago

Intermix Opens

Oh, winter! With its dreary days And its boring, gluttonous ways, Has got you stuck ...

  Fashion

March 19, 2007

Bruced Up Chicago

Bruce’s Spring Collection

Sometimes you really kick butt (at the gym, shopping). And sometimes you don’t (in the ...

  Fashion

January 31, 2007

Baby’s Got Bag Chicago

Lisa Kingsley Handbags

You cram your daily necessities into a Yak Pak the way a gastric bypass patient ...

  Fashion

December 28, 2006

Best of 2006: Ouest End Girls Chicago

Ouest Opens

It’s that time again — when we prepare to ring in the new by celebrating ...

  Fashion

November 24, 2006

Goods Search Online

Support Pediatric AIDS Research at GoodSearch.com

Post-holiday riddle: What do you get when you cross the biggest shopping day of the ...

  Culture, Do-Gooder

October 18, 2006

Nesting Instinct Online

Buildanest.com

As a child, your piggy bank held a meager 38 cents (counting the few pennies stuck ...

  Fashion, Avant-Garde, Handcrafted

September 22, 2006

Get Your Kitson Online

ShopRobertson.com

Velvet ropes. Paparazzi. A bouncer at the door. The latest nightclub? No, friends. That’s shopping ...

  Fashion

September 15, 2006

Up Clothes and Personal Online

Graham & Spencer Clothing

Online shopping complaint #115: Something that looked so jazzy online showed up and is actually ...

  Fashion