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Finding the fashion at Boscov’s

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When Boscov’s opened up its Meriden, Conn. store, it was a “getting-to-know-you” moment in Connecticut. With its new store at Milford, Conn.’s Connecticut Post Mall (now […]

Karen Santos: C-State style meets Beantown fashionistas

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Boston Fashion Week will meet Connecticut style when Nutmeg State designer Karen Santos takes her collection to the runway at the Art For Change Gallery on […]

Modest brides take delight: A new collection from Rachael Karrington Designs

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Brides in Western culture typically wear white. Convention says this was to indicate that the bride was pure… a virgin… for her betrothed. Over time, that […]

Stashing the sash fashion: Mini Miss Mum Maddie Merrifield

Posted on August 22, 2018 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 […]

NEFW hopes to school fashion fans at Sept. 8 event

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Connecticut fashion will collaborate with community spirit in September as New England Fashion Week presents its next show dubbed “Urban Meets High Fashion Back To School.” […]

NEFW sets down its stakes to CT fashion scene

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There’s a new player in the Connecticut area fashion scene. Last month, the first ever New England Fashion Week was held at Spectra Wired café in […]

The Cinder + Salt days of summer

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Cinder + Salt in Middletown, Conn. has a bunch of new t-shirts and accessories designed specifically for the lazy, hazy days of summer. Bristol, Conn.’s Rachel […]

She wore a crown; she’s shown her style; now she’s burning up the speedway

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Sami Anderson of Wolcott, Conn. wore a pageant crown as Miss Connecticut’s Outstanding Teen. She’s posed in the latest styles as a fashion model. But before […]

9-year-old is ‘big’ in New York

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com A Southington, Conn. 9-year-old has become really big in modeling this past week. Kylie Watson already had been selected in early June by Supermodels Unlimited magazine […]

Swimming pretty in the U.K.; CT swimsuit designer teams up with fine artist

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Connecticut’s own swimsuit designer, Kasia Roginska of KARO Swimwear, is still making noise overseas. She already has seen her swimsuits in Sports Illustrated, Vogue UK, ELLE […]

Style that fell from the heavens

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com In the 1976 film, “The Man Who Fell To Earth,” the Thin White Duke David Bowie looked otherworldly as a dapper outer space alien—complete with fedora– […]

Ubiquitous Chinnyere McPherson puts the ‘Spotlight’ on FASCHINN

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com FASCHINN and its Chinnyere McPherson seem to be everywhere the past few weeks in the Hartford-area fashion scene. The designer already has held her own show, […]

Saints preserves us: Sexy Saints by S.J. in the spotlight

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Connecticut’s Saints by S.J. offered up a selection of its sexy and sensual fashions under the spotlight in Hartford April 25 at JL Studios on Airport […]

Toshaz has heaven on her mind

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Heaven is a place on earth. And heaven was clearly on Toshaz’s mind. Toshaz, the creator of Couture France, presented a nearly-all white garment collection at […]

Going for extra runs… La’Moo is a hit

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com When a fashion designer plans a runway show, especially a designer outside of the big fashion capitals, the temptation is there to throw everything against the […]

Crazy, sexy, cool… it’s FASCHINN

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com FASCHINN’s latest fashion line dubbed “Wild Heart” is not for a woman who wants to slip quietly into the good night. It’s for the woman who […]

The sophisticated aesthetic of Troy Anthony

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The collection by Troy Anthony Designs presented at Hartford Fashion Week stood out as a wearable, sophisticated, and mature (but far from matronly) line for the […]

Styled by Jazz creates vibrant collection that celebrates Africa

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Styled by Jazz reached back to her heritage with a spring collection that dazzled the eye with an array of vivacious African prints at Hartford Fashion […]

Hope in the form of fashion in the latest line from Rachael Karrington Designs

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There is a scene toward the end of the musical version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple, where Celie, the main character, is finally reunited with […]

Japanalia admiration society gathers at Hartford Fashion Week launch party

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There was a Japanalia lovefest on Thursday for one of the pioneers of Hartford’s fashion scene. As a cornerstone for its launch party at Chango Rosa […]

Meet some of the brains behind the fashion

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The runway shows and presentations of Hartford Fashion Week begin in earnest on Friday night at the Colt Armory in Hartford, Conn. and continue on Saturday. […]

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 […]

Gala, gowns, and crowns

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The Miss Connecticut Scholarship Organization celebrated in style as it held its 90th anniversary gala at Aria in Prospect, Conn. Friday night. The young women vying […]

Danbury, Conn. wants to show its fashionable side

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com A group of volunteers have begun to lay the groundwork to introduce the first ever Danbury Fashion Week to Connecticut’s northern Fairfield County. Meagan Neville, who […]

Designers go see models on go-see for Hartford Fashion Week

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The designers are in place. And on Saturday, the prospective models lined up for a casting to see who would get to walk in Hartford Fashion […]

Finding their inner ‘Demi’ in latest Fabletics capsule collection

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

By MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Pop sensation Demi Lovato has launched a new capsule collection of activewear with Fabletics, which press materials explained, extends the brand’s “mission to empower women by […]

Fashion fights for a cure

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

The fight against cancer took to the fashion catwalk on Jan. 20. The third annual Warriors Against Cancer Introducing The Rainbows was held at Roosevelt’s in New Haven. The event […]

Love is in fashion at Sappho

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com It’s been said love is love. And Sappho Clothing of Connecticut was born of love and exists to foster love in all of its dimensions. A […]

Some Jovani glam and some models that Dazzle

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There was a lot of Jovani style and a lot of “Dazzle” on Jan. 21 in Oxford, Conn. Dazzle Boutique, owned by Laurye Natale, held its […]

Connecticut model Kylie Frink thrives on ‘Project Runway’s’ latest cycle

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com For its 16th cycle, “Project Runway” took a new approach. The fashion designers in this TV reality series had to create garments for a variety of […]

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