Mike Chaiken

How to dress, and dress well, for Easter

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Easter and fashionable attire have long been sibling staples of American fashion culture. Granted, the looks have changed with the times. For instance, fanciful Easter bonnets […]

Bravery, Brooklyn, and (French) bulldogs

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Evoking superheroes that would do Black Widow proud and stealthy foreign spies that would give Sean Connery’s James Bond fits, fashion designer Janelle Funari New York […]

Stashing the sash fashion: Meet Miss Bristol Micayla Barrows

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When you see them compete for a crown, evening gowns, cocktail dresses, business attire, and swimsuits or athleisure wear are the uniforms of necessity. But what […]

Who’s the boss? Belle’s the boss

Posted on April 6, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN The creator of a lifestyle blog out of New Britain is expanding her reach and launching her own athletic wear line. Belle’s Notebook is the brainchild of […]

Stashing the sash fashion: Meet Miss Wolcott’s Outstanding Teen Monika Korbusieski

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When you see them compete for a crown, evening gowns, cocktail dresses, business attire, and athleisure wear are the uniforms of necessity. But what do titleholders […]

Model Mob: Warm weather footwear desired for spring

Posted on April 2, 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 and self-submitted photographs that […]

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 […]

Model Mob: Why is it important to embrace all shapes and sizes?

Posted on February 27, 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 and self-submitted photographs that […]

Rookies join the Miss CT team

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

The Class of 2019 for the Miss Connecticut Scholarship Organization is now complete after two more women were crowned at the Miss Rookie pageant on Sunday, Feb. 24. Ariana Puglisi […]

Fashion with a message

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com) says that to “stay woke” is “to keep informed of the [crap] going on around you in times of turmoil and conflict. When […]

Get your mask on and get your Mardi Gras on in CT

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com If you can’t make it to NOLA to celebrate Fat Tuesday, grab your masks and head over to the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, Conn. […]

Art deco and disco

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There was a certain appropriateness to designer Grayling Purnell’s runway show at New York Fashion Week. The collection unveiled at Art Hearts Fashion on Feb. 8 […]

Tired of the same old health routine

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by CASSIE MCINTYRE CTFashionMag.com New Years Day feels like it was yesterday and a lot of us have committed to our New Year’s resolutions for 2019. We’ve signed up in […]

Presentation teaches girls to ‘Let the Queen That Lies Within You’

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

SUBMISSION to CTFashionMag.com An Empowered Girls Rise Rally “Let the Queen That Lies Within You” was presented at Wolcott High School on Jan. 12. Carol Jurzyk, Ambassador for Empowered Girls […]

Camellia Couture provides a touch of elegance

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There are times when your preteen, tween, and teen needs to set aside their casual attire and dress up. Weddings, christenings, bar mitzvahs, catechisms, and just […]

Backstage melting pot

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Aspiring young models mingled with professionals at Society Fashion Week on Feb. 10 in New York City. Gathered in the lower level of Harlem Parish, an […]

Model Mob: Slacks, leggings, or dresses?

Posted on February 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. […]

Siblings leap into fashion with Spring Cheetah

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Nike and Athleta better watch out. Sisters Kat and Ilyana Reichenbach are on the move. Kat, 13, and Ilyana, 9, both of Westchester County, N.Y., presented […]

Underwear goes minimalist under creative eye of ‘Project Runway’ alum

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When fashion designer Kentaro Kameyama competed on “Project Runway,” his tendency to be artistic elevated (and sometimes undermined) his creations. Now that he’s no longer vying […]

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