Teresa Wiltz

So maybe you hate rap. And so you think you can escape the clutches of rap megamogul Sean "Puffy" Combs, aka Puff Daddy, who performs Saturday at the Rosemont Horizon...

It's party time. So chill already. Going out and dressing up need not necessarily go hand in hand. If you can wear chinos to the office for dress-down Fridays, why...

It's just before sunrise, and in Grant Park the scent of Ben-Gay hovers. Bodies litter the grass, stretching and pulling, bouncing and yanking, inhaling Power Bars and sucking down Gatorade...

It is possible. Really. We're talking fashion that fights Chicago's winter wind--the infamous Hawk. Leather and knits. Which means that this fall, you'll look terribly au courant while feeling warm...

Nun, playwright, philosopher, mathematician and poet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) infuriated the male powers that be when she had the nerve to debate religious doctrine. In colonial...

Retire the caftan already. Why hide womanly curves under a tent? Rethinking your approach to fashion couldn't happen at a better time: It seems that designers finally have realized that...

This is a bad-girl moment. We're talking shoes, seriously baaaad shoes. Shoes that, way back when, would have made the likes of Vanity 6, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Tina Turner...

Once upon a time, "American" + "designer" = "casual." As in "Le Gap." To the denizens of the international fashion world, American designers were part of the teeming fashion underclass....

Power. You could call fall '97 the rebirth of the big, bad '80s, a time when bulls ruled the market, when shoulder pads and Joan Collins ruled the world. Joan...

It's the great divide. We're talking slits and splits--as in skirts. To clarify: For fall 1997, skirts, whether they're hanging demurely below the knee or hovering somewhere in the stratosphere,...