The Haute Closet

The All-Season Shirtdress

Hello darlings! It’s been a minute. Have been getting Dosed and loving every second – check it out here. The third installment, Dose Tres, is this Sunday, August 14th, from 10am-4pm at the River East Art Center. In other happy news, I’ve been...

11 August 2011

Ikram

She moved! Ikram has built the most beautiful store in the city and it is a fantastic lacquer red. It used to be that simply walking by the window would get us inspired; now it’s more like being on the same block. Who...

02 August 2011

Oliver Peoples Speaks

Oliver Peoples is moving to the Gold Coast. We first learned about the brand from Bret Easton Ellis in his gnarly 90s work, American Psycho. Bret is a keen observer of trends in fashion, music and culture and if you haven’t seen the...

05 July 2011

Singles Portraits

Some of the final portraits, taken by Maria Ponce and styled by THC, for the July 2011 issue of Chicago magazine: It was a fun shoot. Big thanks to Maria, Manase Latu, my assistant Alice Kim and all of the places I...

03 July 2011

8th Grade Dreams

The lovely Riya, an 8th grade student, contacted us earlier this year. She was assigned to do a project on her chosen profession: styling. She asked us some questions and here’s the Haute Closet part of her project if you’re dying to know...

03 July 2011

Dose Market | THC at the REAC

UPDATE: Dose Market Dates for 2011 include June 5, July 10, August 14, September 25, October 16, November 6 and December 4. We’ve been uber busy this Spring styling with tons of fresh SS11 designs – HELLO! hopelessly addicted to Isabel Marant –...

03 June 2011

Fashion + Interior Design

One of our most recent THC clients is a well-known, super talented interior designer. We love her and her bold style. So, we’ve taken notice of the interiors-cum-fashion designers recently noted in both Vogue and W: Kelly Wearstler and Mary Katrantzou.We think their...

11 May 2011

Chicago Mag or black/francis 2.0

So, black/francis is no more, but it doesn’t mean Heiji and I have parted ways. Below, our first collab post-b/f, with Heiji as new contributing editor to Chicago Magazine. I helped style, capturing Laura Letinsky and friends at a garden lunch at Laura’s...

11 May 2011

THCIYH: Volume 13

Fuck, We're Lost in Wonderland

21 March 2011

Laura Laine

Don’t think we’ve said it so explicitly before, but one of the reasons we love fashion is its ability to delight. (See the phenomenon that is: TaviTulle.) Actually, it’s one of the only reasons we like fashion. Thus, it would follow that we...

11 March 2011

Hermes | Festival des Metiers

Treated to a preview of the Hermès | Festival des Métiers, in a setting designed by the exquisitely talented Paola Navone, the experience this week at 25 Oak Street celebrates the art of handcraft. Inside, a group of Hermès’ Parisian artisans showcase their...

11 March 2011

chiyorker

We made a new friend in Lynnette Astaire the day she came to The Haute Closet to play dress up and ask us a few questions … get into it, here.

06 March 2011

don’t get left in the dust

from chalk boutique: Bursting at the seams

06 March 2011

Lori’s

Shoes! Visit Chicagoland's one-stop accessories shop for, you guessed it, shoes, bags, baubles and more!

05 March 2011

So Pro

The ponytails on the first two models are pure luxury. Gaga smoking like an enfant terrible … priceless. The one who stumbles, love. This is an incredible mashup of fashion and music. The blue! The black! The white! The nude! The attitude! What...

02 March 2011

Thanks, Oprah.

Our universes collide in a piece in, of all places, O Magazine, which we found courtesy of The New Yorker Book Bench, one of our favorite non-fashion blogs. Behold this little gem here: For the TL;DR crowd: In which a poet who can...

01 March 2011

Mega-Swap: This Weekend

A few friends decided to start a business selling the awesome stuff we keep in our closets but never wear. So join me and a host of Chi-town ladies for a Luxury Gararge Sale that’s full of gems. See you at Galleria Unico,...

07 February 2011