Wendy Navratil

Red carpets are suddenly rolling out for the designs of Chicago-born, Mexico-raised Louis Verdad. A few months ago, his Marlene Dietrich-worthy suits and dresses caught eyes in a Los Angeles...

Designer Alexander Julian has parlayed Private Reserve, his top-end men's clothing line with tags modeled on wine bottle labels, into an actual top-end wine. "I don't do the growing or...

When rebellion wears a suit and tie, you know that times and guys are changing. "You don't want to dress like your father. Fathers have done the khakis for several...

Stop, drop the glue gun and back away from any bouts of folly, er, boughs of holly. Designer Cynthia Rowley and co-guru Ilene Rosenzweig want to redeck the halls with...

Want a second opinion on the state of your weight and shape? Tanita Corp. offers six easy-to-use weight and body-fat monitoring scales under $100, just as the holiday feeding frenzy...

Things don't have to get ugly when holiday party hopping meets frozen-puddle jumping. But they often do. Men and women are dressed to the nines underneath, but then a 9-degree...

For many, auto racing packs all the sophistication of a pinch of Skoal. But we're seeing racer chic rev its engines. Von Dutch, with its speed-freak Ts, mechanic shirts, James...

She's known around the Jefferson Park Post Office as the Lady with the Balls. Just about every day, Michele Sipolt Kapustka arrives with arms full of vinyl balls in shades...

Call it the revenge of the misfit toys. A cross between creepy and cuddly, Uglydolls have charmed their way into the arms of celebs such as Brittany Murphy and the...

Here's a chance to say you knew--and wore--them before they made it big. The national arts organization Gen Art rolls out its "Fresh Faces in Fashion" show in Chicago for...