Second City Style would like to wish you a very happy Memorial Day, no matter what you do. We plan to shop! There are some fabulous Memorial Day Sales on pieces you can wear this season. RED: alice + olivia Spelling Side Peplum Dress, now $316 WHITE: KORAL Bootcut Jeans, now $76.00 BLUE: Helmut Lang Oasis Drape Top, now $177 [...]

This Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25, Aussie Hair Care  will be at Pioneer Court to offer complimentary hairstyle makeovers to the lucky women of Chicago! Aussie is known for giving people a great outcome for less effort – so essentially, Aussie gives people “Unfair Hair!” Starting at 10:00am, women can get their “Unfair Advantages” from the Aussie team, [...]

April showers bring May showers in Chicago, and I know we can count on rain in June, too! So it is best to be equipped with a trench coat that you can throw on over just about everything. There are different shades of kahki, so try on a lot of coats and choose a basic trench that has a tone [...]

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Armani Profits Up 20% in 2012 The Milan-based fashion group,Giorgio Armani SpA logged another year of gains in profits and revenues in 2012, which is expecting the momentum to continue this year. “The excellent results achieved in 2012 confirm the quality of leadership that we have here at Armani,” said the designer, who is chairman of the fashion house he [...]

Gallery Aesthete presented their menswear along with women’s wear from Katrin Schnabl and Robin Richman at Luminaire last night. Everything from the decor and lighting, to the avante garde fashion (and guests) turned this event into one massive work of art. Gallery Aesthete is hidden within Chicago’s premiere fashion district with featured designs from fashion luminaries Rick Owens and Commes [...]

These fitness tips by Equinox’s Area Group Fitness Manager Julie Valenti really hit home for me!  They came just in the nick of time to get toned and fit for summer fashion – and swimwear. (Gulp!) You know how summer in Chicago sneaks up on you? This year you can be ready by doing something about your fitness right now.  [...]

The newest ULTA Beauty in Chicago held a grand opening event yesterday eventing at the store at 16 S. Halsted Street. The winner of The Face on Oxygen, Devyn, looking gorgeous in Ulta Beauty makeup, was there to meet and greet customers! Shoppers enjoyed beverages, light-bites and beauty samples from reps from lines currently available at ULTA, including bareMinerals, CHI, [...]

Eddie Borgo was as Neiman Marcus Michigan Avenue last Thursday with a trunk-load of his amazing jewelry. His pieces are poplar with celebrities and art directors, for good reason. They are edgy, cool, modern, unusual yet, familiar, and you can wear his jewelry season after season. I met Eddie Borgo during his trunk show, where he cheerfully greeted and assisted [...]

We take extra care to fight aging of our skin from an early age, so why don’t we so the same for our hair? I met with Brian Hendricks, director of education at DS Laboratories at Mario Tricoci Hair Salon and Day Spa in Chicago, to try out the new REVITA.LT Shampoo and REVITA.COR Conditioner, and the Spectral.DNC-N. This leave-in [...]