March 2019 – CTFashionMag

Watertown titleholder does it ‘For the Kids’ April 4

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

Wolcott, Conn.’s Alyssa Anderson is hoping to create some miracles on Thursday, April 4. Anderson, who is currently holding the title of Miss Greater Watertown in the Miss America Organization, […]

No masking good intentions and good times

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Morgan Mancini is paying it forward. Last year, Mancini, the current Miss Connecticut’s Outstanding Teen, was given a financial boost for her run at the Miss […]

This SWAN makes art out of fashion

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When Kristin Costa showed her fashion collection at an event in Connecticut last year, her show was more walking art gallery than mobile department store. Costa’s […]

Fighting back MS with fashion

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com It will be fashionable to fight Multiple Sclerosis this Friday night thanks to a Waterbury teen. Brooke Cyr, a student at Waterbury’s Holy Cross High School, […]

March into mindfulness this month

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by CASSIE MCINTYRE CTFashionMag.com We are still at the beginning of 2019, breaking into the start of spring, and waiting to get outside into the nicer warmer weather. Many of […]

Making every woman feel beautiful

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Personal experience drove fashion designers Margarita Ortiz and Chelsie Gray to launch ChelRita Designs, a brand intended to empower women with the clothes they wear. “We […]

Timely trends for prom time

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The time of year has arrived when high school girls in their junior and senior years have been hitting the local boutiques and department stores in […]

Model Mob: What spring fashions are you looking forward to wearing?

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Model Mob is a group of area fashion models who weigh in on a variety of issues for CTFashionMag.com and provide selfies that illustrate their replies. […]

Look out! It’s Airship Darklord!

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com What Steampunk look is complete without some headgear? At the recent Brass Ring Academy and Cabaret at the New England Carousel Museum, Airship Darklord brought its […]

A Kiss from another time

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Kiss Designs sat squarely at the entrance to the recent Brass Ring Academy and Cabaret at the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, Conn. Aficionados of […]

Farewell Seventeen’s print edition, you will be missed

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Reality struck readers of venerable teenage girl magazine Seventeen this past weekend. Rather than the magazine, which was launched in 1944, subscribers received substitute issues from […]

A little whimsy from I Love Mel D

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com I Love Mel D presented a colorful and whimsical collection that offered an opportunity for tweens and teens to look cheerful as spring moves in across […]