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Toriano Sauro on the runway at The Look

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com To provide a stylistic interlude to The Look Model Search at the Westbrook Outlets in Westbrook, Conn. on Aug. 10, Tina Kiniry Management offered area fashion […]

Styling it with Grace by Grace on night 3 of Middlesex Fashion Week

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Grace by Grace presented its latest line at the third night of Middlesex Fashion Week on Friday, May 10 at East Hampton Town Hall.

Make Shift doesn’t just make-do at Middlesex Fashion Week

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Make Shift Studios opened the show with a large collection of gear for women and men at Middlesex Fashion Week. For the May 10 show, the […]

Savvyrai shows its stuff at Middlesex Fashion Week

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Savvyrai Designs offered up its latest collection on the runway of night three of Middlesex Fashion Week on Friday, May 10 at the East Hampton Town […]

From Fairfield, it’s Della Bourke Jackson at RIFW

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Della Bourke Jackson from Fairfield, Conn., a student at the University of Rhode Island, presented her collection for Della Bourke Designs at Rhode Island Fashion Week […]

Sustainability courtesy of EJ A La Mode at RIFW

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Sustainable fashion was at the heart of the collection presented by EJ A La Mode during Rhode Island Fashion Week’s Emerging Designers segment on May 4 […]

God Like Jae goes for the casual at Afro Realm

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com God Like Jae presented a collection of casual wear collection as part of Life in Color: Afro Realm, a fashion show held by Chasity Aniece Productions […]

Fashion forward but rooted in tradition from Designz by Raga

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Modern and traditional comingled on the runway show presented by Designz by Raga during Bureau Fashion Week in New York City on Feb. 11. The line […]

Sound of Fashion Week Connecticut returns starting Sunday

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com After three years of staging fashion runway shows under the Sound of Fashion Week Connecticut banner, Travis Bivans has had a chance to study the fashion […]

An abundance of fashion as MFW offers its concluding runway show

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.cm There was fashion, fashion and more fashion as Middletown Fashion Week neared the end its inaugural season with several hours of custom fashions, runway models and […]

Sealing the deal on fashion on night 3 of MFW

Posted on April 22, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com For one night, deals on wheels were set aside, while local creatives put on miles for styles. Middletown Fashion Week set down a catwalk through the […]

The state’s center will be its fashion center during Middletown Fashion Week

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Mike Chaiken

UPDATE, NOTE TIMES by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com From April 19-23, Middletown will not only be the center of Connecticut, but the Middlesex County city will also be the center of […]

There was an Extravaganza in the ballroom during SOFWCT

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The Sound of Fashion Week CT showed its support for the LGBTQ+ community with the return of its Extravaganza fashion show, featuring a runway show highlighting […]

Sound of Fashion CT keeps evolving for year 2

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The fashion world of Connecticut gets another shot at strutting its stuff this month as Sound Fashion Week CT returns for a second season. Locations from […]

Join the Kultuur Club

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Kultuur showed a runway collection that made you think of your favorite singers on the arena stage. If Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello or Megan the Stallion […]

COVID or no COVID, Atlantic City Fashion Week is a go

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com COVID-19 still has the fashion industry rethinking staples of its calendar such as the myriad of fashion weeks. In New York City, most designers are going […]

Reality TV celebs build fashionable House of Eleven

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Identical twin sisters Darcey and Stacey Silva are in the celebrity spotlight these days for their new hit reality TV series on TLC called, obviously enough, […]

Connecticut designers reflect on fashion’s role in fighting racism

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The death of George Floyd has initiated a nation-wide discussion on race relations. The fashion industry has been engaged in its own soul-searching as to whether […]

Fashion industry grapples with race after death of George Floyd

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com In the wake of the death of George Floyd, which has brought a growing awareness of systemic racism in America, the fashion industry is trying to […]

Fashion is all in the family

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com There was a blood connection on the runway at Society Fashion Week on Sept. 8. Mother and daughters, Nicole Reichenbach and sisters Ilyana and Kat showed […]

Hartford Fashion Week holding forum on where to next for region’s fashion community

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Hartford Fashion Week is remaking itself. In the process, it is looking at how it can best serve the region’s fashion community. To that end, HFW […]

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 […]

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 […]

How to do fashion, Hollywood-style, on the Red Carpet [Experience]

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Connecticut residents can follow in the glittering footsteps of Hollywood’s biggest stars as they celebrate the Academy Awards at the Red Carpet Experience on Feb. 24. […]

Cue the red carpet spotlights… the stylish in Hartford to support AIDS Connecticut

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com The time has come to get fabulous and stylish as you prepare for your red carpet moment prior to the Academy Awards. And it’s all for […]

Designer won’t dress First Lady Trump, urges other designers to follow suit

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Mike Chaiken

by MIKE CHAIKEN CTFashionMag.com Sophie Theallet, a luxury brand fashion designer who has dressed current First Lady Michelle Obama won’t follow suit for First Lady Melania Trump. And she urges […]