WCIU’s Top 5 Chicago Blogs
Corri McFadden, style expert and successful eCommerce entrepreneur, was kind enough to feature my blog, chicagostreetstyle.com, in a segment about Chicago’s top 5 fashion blogs during the WCIU talk show You & Me This Morning on May 30, 2012.
Shop Til You Drop Magazine
My street-style photo of Elin Kling was the starting point for a story about Bermuda shorts in the June 2012 issue of Shop Til You Drop, Australia’s #1 best selling fashion magazine. The image is featured on page 146.
On May 10th, I co-hosted Google’s private spring fashion show at the Chicago office with Seth Putnam of The Midwestyle. As an emcee, I offered my thoughts on how each look fits into current trends during the runway show. The event was sponsored by Anthropologie, Haberdash, Jules, Gap, and Zagat.
I partnered with NET-A-PORTER’s brother website, Mr. Porter, on a street-style slideshow for Refinery29. I attended their private party, co-hosted by CS Magazine, at the PUBLIC Chicago Hotel. I scouted and photographed seven of the most stylish male attendees and created one of Refinery29 Chicago’s most popular Spring 2012 photo slideshows.
Companies are finally starting to understand why it’s important to view the relationship with their consumers as a two-way street. Before the social media revolution the fashion industry was a very top-down business. Now brands are starting to see why it’s so critical for them to authentically connect to their audience through bloggers like me.
I co-hosted trendy British retailer TopShop’s Spring Style Party at the Michigan Avenue store on behalf of CS Modern Luxury Magazine. The event included free manicures, blowouts, make-up, and the sounds of DJ Dani Deahl. The final guest count totaled well over 1,000 people who attended, making it one of Chicago’s biggest fashion events in 2012.
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award-winning jewelry designer Pamela Love featured my post about the necklace I bought of hers from Barneys on her Tumblr!
just came across this blog post from chicago street style. love it!
xxhttp://www.chicagostreetstyle.com/2012/04/my-pamela-love-four-tier-skull-necklace.html
I photographed Refinery29 Chicago’s spring shoe stalking photo slideshow featuring 14 of the coolest kicks from Windy City sidewalks. My personal favorites are Jane’s Valentino heels, pictured above.
Many ‘street style’ websites these days tend to simply catalogue the style of magazine editors and models, but I prefer seeing what the ‘real’ people on the street are wearing. Unlike your Sartorialists, Face Hunters and Street Peepers who constantly tour the globe (and fashion weeks) for street fashion, the following fantastic street style websites are those that showcase and focus on the style of a specific area…
Chicago Street Style by Amy Creyer documents the sartorial choices of the inhabitants of Chicago. The site has a clean, easy to navigate design and the photos are clear and crisp. Photos are usually accompanied by commentary from the photographer, which I find really engaging.
I was honored to attend the Swarovski benefit party for the SAIC annual runway show, The Walk, on April 10, 2012. The event highlight was the unveiling of a window display created by SAIC fashion design program graduate students under the tutelage of renowned artist and department chair Nick Cave.
House of Consignment Premiere Party
I was elated to attend the private premiere party for my friend Corri McFadden and her amazing new reality show House of Consignment. The program focuses on the multimillion-dollar business she built from scratch at age 22 and is currently the only reality show being filmed in Chicago.
I took this street-style photo of my friend Jena Gambaccini from ChiCityFashion at New York fashion week in February. This image accompanied an article about her role in promoting Chicago fashion that ran in the Pioneer Press affiliate newspapers throughout Chicagoland on March 29. The story also discussed Jena’s role as the social media coordinator at eDrop-Off and her work starring in the new VH1 reality series House of Consignment.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker highlighted my website in a photo slideshow featuring the best global street-style blogs. Mine was the only American blog included. See it here.
I asked Creyer what distinguishes her photographic style. “The city of Chicago is the central character in my blog,” she said. “Chicago has the world’s best architecture, so it would be insane for me not to consciously incorporate that into every single photo.”
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