Lisa Skolnik

Giving the green light Green home Chicago, Karen Kalmek's new River West home furnishings showroom, makes it possible to get green with style, originality, economy and ease. Find cabinets, tiles...

Make your home a more pleasant place to live, and then you can profit from it when it's time to sell. How much to spend on renovating depends on the...

SHE NEVER set out to be a do-it-yourselfer. As a top Chicago model, Veronica Zepeda was more comfortable scouring boutiques than gritty home improvement stores. That changed when she bought...

Experts tell us to "keep it easy" when entertaining at home. Yet that mantra is hard to fulfill. We want to impress our guests, perhaps even knock their socks off....

Chicago artist Danielle Klinenberg is a self-professed party person. "I can't stop myself from throwing them," she says. "It's in my blood. My mother, Rona Talcott, was the subject of...

Popular restaurateur. Beauty products CEO. Luxury hotelier. Supermodel. Art visionaries. Top-of-the-line chef. Work is their passion and livelihood. 10-hour-plus days? Easily. Here's how they live when the workday is done....

Skin boosters that rejuvenate Most women want facial products that do what they promise: minimize pores; reduce wrinkles and lines; tighten and lift; even out discoloration. "Cosmetics cop" Paula Begoun...

In the '90s, trendmeisters told us what we were about to wear. In the noughties, that task has fallen to prescient retailers like Lance Lawson (above, right), 36, and Jim...

Thirty-one percent of those who now frequent spas are male, says the International Spa Association. And with 32.2 million U.S. spa-goers, the time to mine that market has come. Banish...

Ikram Goldman's canny grasp of style has stocked her namesake Rush Street boutique with the uber-costly couture that the rest of the fashion world copies With so many fabulous designers...