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After 20 years as an executive in the gift basket business, Jeff Burkard has turned his eye for design to menswear with the launch of BOGA, a line of “high-end dressy-casual” apparel and accessories.

Burkard, 47, the startup’s founder and lead designer, launched BOGA.com in March and in August plans to open a showroom and retail shop at his design studio on the fifth floor at 133 N. Jefferson St., where the elevator doors squeak open to reveal a pile of mannequins in various states of undress at the fore of a very cool, rough loft.

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Jeff Burkard, seen here in his Chicago workspace, has launched a menswear line called BOGA that sells high-end dressy casual basics.
Jose M. Osorio / baiduhai June 12, 2014

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