Into each season, some trends must fall. Some of the more wearable options for fall/winter 1994 are plaids, the "new" knee-length skirts and boots, to the knee or above it....
This season, fur flew on the catwalk. Everyone, it seems, from Ralph Lauren to Anna Sui to Oscar de la Renta, was struck with fuzzy-wuzzy fever. Call it mohair madness....
Before Fashion Fair, before Revlon or Prescriptives or Maybelline ever had a clue about the makeup needs of women of color, there was Barbara Walden. Hers was a cosmetics line...
This fall, let the sun shine in with a splash of color. After seasons of muted neutrals, somber black and oh-so-subtle earth tones, brilliant hues are enjoying a renaissance. On...
It's Friday night, and at the chi-chi Marche-Chicago's current dining mecca for trend-seeking trendoids-the mood is breathtakingly and determinedly . . . trendy. This is, after all, the restaurant that...
Last winter was, to put it mildly, a bear. This winter could be worse. Wool coats take the chill off, but shearlings can knock it out. This year's batch has...
Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make it in fashion, you'd better pack your bags and run like heck to New York, New York. But then there...
It was immortalized by Coco Chanel and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The neat little skirted suit. Curvy. Structured. Still sexy. The choices for fall 1994: Jacket longer than the skirt, which...
For those who prefer to do their buying in the privacy of their own cave-the better to conceal shopping predilections-there's something for everyone in the wonderful world of catalogs. Like...
Way back when, the more ingenuous-or desperate-of us used toilet paper. That was before we were given the old-fashioned, padded, pushup bra. Then silicone implants came and went. And we...