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Focus is on fashion, art of the 1960s at Woodstock museum

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com On the main floor of the Museum at Bethel Woods, the permanent exhibit explores the musical, political and sociological atmosphere that led up to the Woodstock […]

Free the art

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Sometimes, art is held captive, locked away in a museum. Other times, the art is allowed to escape and roam about on the grounds in front […]

Demery Jayne: Lingerie rooted in art

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Demery Jayne comes from a family of artists. Her father paints. Her mother does interior design and creates jewelry. One sister is a painter and the […]

Slip into some art

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Henri Matisse said, “Art is an escape from reality.” Fashion, some will say, is a form of art. And model Aislinn Ennis slips into some fashion, […]

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 […]

Paint a picture of fashion with Bad Bunny

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com If you like the prints used in the garments created by Bad Bunny’s Jennifer Jacob, you’re out of luck if you want to find them at […]

Give your social conscience a fashionable workout for autumn

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Take a train out of New York City or out of Hartford, Conn. and ride down Fairfield County, Connecticut. When you get to Danbury, step off […]

Art meets fashion at the Armory

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Fashion, for most, is about sheltering our naked form. For some, it’s about declaring our individualist and status. But, fashion is also an art form. And […]

Small steps and a big leap into Hartford Fashion Week

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Tajah Ramsey took small steps in the world of fashion before taking the big leap of showing her artful fashion creations at Hartford Fashion Week […]

Here’s the Dirt: A night of fashion and art at The Salon

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Art and creativity was in the air on Saturday night as Connecticut fashion designer Chinnyere McPherson of FASCHINN hosted The Wild Heart Experience at The Dirt […]

‘Project Runway’ winner offers the art and the fashion at Art Hearts Fashion

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The paramount question at the Kentaro Kameyama show at Art Hearts Fashion in New York City Feb. 8 was: How would Kentaro perform without the erudite […]

Tip of the hat to creative CT fashions

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Groundbreaking British milliner Stephen Jones, who has outfitted the likes of fashion-tastemaker Isabella Blow and pop star Boy George, told the Financial Times once, “Hats tend […]

At the art of it all

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Fashion can be about finding the perfect out for a night out or at the office. Fashion also can be about creativity, pushing the concept of […]

No Hartford Fashion Week in 2017; focus changes in 2018 toward fashion as art

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Fans of Connecticut fashion will have to wait another year for the return of Hartford Fashion Week. Organizers of the fashion event, which was held these […]

Talking about concepts: The 8th Continent swimwear

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashion.com When you think of swim fashion, you typically don’t think of art or concept. You think of beauty or you think of sexy. But The 8th […]

Style, art, and the beach: CT’s KARO in Miami

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Beach style walked arm in arm with modern art on the runway at the Surfcomber Hotel on Collins Avenue in Miami July 22. Connecticut’s KARO Swimwear […]

Through the lens of Jade Soto: Miss Connecticut Scholarship pageant

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

Artist/ photographer Jade Soto made her first trip to the Miss Connecticut Scholarship Pageant– her first pageant of any kind– armed with her camera. This is what she saw with […]

Fashions captured in water color this Thursday

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

Bristol’s The Studio and The Bristol Historical Society will showcase the latest collection of their artists’ watercolors that were inspired by fashion through the ages. The Country Store inside of […]

Getting Trash(ion)ed on a Sunday night

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com HARTFORD– Trash became couture on Sunday as the seventh annual Trashion Fashion event made its debut on Front Street at the Infinity Music Hall. This was […]

That trash is pretty pretty… and fashionable

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com It’s become a yearly tradition of fun and creativity. But Trashion Fashion, which will be presented Sunday, is about more than just letting artists and fashion […]

Bring a mask when you celebrate Mardi Gras

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Behind a mask, you can be anybody you want to be. And at Mardi Gras, the anonymity is all the better. According to MardiGrasNewOrleans.com, “In the […]

Eerie, disturbing… and beautiful: The runway show of Sheguang Hu

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The conventional thought about fashion is it should be wearable. It should be pretty. It should be attractive. And it should have a function… either as […]

Steampunk, fashion, photos… and tea: Say hello to S2pid Cupid Feb. 18

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Mike Chaiken

On Feb 18th, 2017, the S2pid Cupid Steampunk Ball will be held at Deanston House on 625 Middle Turnpike Storrs Connecticut. This will be the second annual gathering of Steampunks, […]

Threads stitched together for a serious message

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico destroyed wildlife and devastated the region’s economy, fashion designer Erin Boyle knew at some point she […]

Can you top this?

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

Internationally renowned hairdressing competitor Amanda Cassidy brought along some of her creations to present at the graduation of students at the International Institute of Cosmetology in Connecticut earlier this year […]

Inspiration… and Redemption

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Inspiration was a key word for Redemption, the fashion show fund raiser for the Salvation Army on Sept. 24. There was inspiration for fashion as a […]

Madison Avenue turned into art exhibit, huge runway

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

Madison Avenue was transformed into NYFW’s longest runway with a Public Art Exhibition “The Language of Fashion” by SVA students, hosted by the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District. On view from September […]

The ebb and flow of Daniel Lanzilotta

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

The medium used by artist Daniel Lanzilotta is colorful. The shapes that it takes and that the Connecticut artist takes it are idiosyncratic. The shapes follow an ebb and flow […]

Art takes the stage at Art Hearts Fashion

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

There was art on the runway for the Rocky Gathercole show, which was part of the Art Heart Fashion shows at Miami Swim Week on July 14. There were all […]

On the runway, your garbage becomes style

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

The idea of Trashion Fashion is to show how you can keep clean trash– such as paper– out of the waste stream. Artists and fashion designers put their creativity to […]