This past Wednesday night, Sept. 22nd the JBar @ The James was filled with an eclectic crowd of the fashion industry elite in Chicago. No there was not a designer runway show happening, but the highly anticipated Qlix intro and celebration for ISSUE 02 party, which was perfectly managed by the amazing talents of [...]
For the past couple of month’s Qlix has been working the magazine scene in Tokyo being featured in various exhibitions such as the Jean Snow’s Snow Magazine Cafe (during the whole month of August) and Magazine Library’s exhibition during Tokyo’s Fashion Night Out (this past Friday, September 10th). To our surprise, Qlix has been [...]
Last Tuesday (August 10), I attended the Islands of the World Fashion Tour, produced by Factio Magazine, and hosted by a plethora of some of Chicago’s top fashion influentials (Saira Mohan, Melissa Maynard, Trevian Kutti, Corri Mcfadden, Candace Jordan, Ashley Drapes, Barbara Samuels and Kristen Fredricksen Skordilis). The event took place at the uber chic [...]
Qlix will be showing for the complete month of August (August 1-30) at the Snow Magazine Cafe exhibit located at Cafe Pause in Tokyo, Japan. We are one of 33 magazines that are participating in this month-long celebration, representing magazines of art, design, and culture from around the world and we are extremely proud [...]
A week or so ago, I visited the 11th floor of Macy’s to see the six new designers of the Chicago Fashion Incubator (CFI). If you are not familiar with CFI, they provide six emerging Chicago-based designers with the resources, including workspace, education about the business of fashion and mentoring, to launch their careers in [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the ‘Fashion Stills’ premiere party at The Sofitel Chicago. Guests mingled about exploring each mounted image while sipping champagne from Laurent-Perrier and nibbling on hors d’oeuvers. Three models from Factor Model Management were also showcased splendid designs by Carolina Herrera, courtesy of [...]
Normally when I think of Columbia College two words come to mind…GREAT FILMMAKERS! However, after experience Columbia College’s 2010 graduate fashion showcase on May, 11, 2010 in the divine Harold Washington Library Winter Garden, I’ll definitely extend my word choices to…”fresh and carefully edited fashion design.” This year’s show far reached what I [...]
We (my photographer – KIEFFER and I) arrived fashionably early with excitement for the following reasons: (1) We’re pros at attending the annual SAIC fashion show and (2) we always look forward to what fresh and forward designs that the students of SAIC will present year after year.
Selection of this year’s best [...]
I had the pleasure of attending the IADT -Chicago IMAGINE 2010 student fashion show on April 15, 2010 at the Union Station in Chicago, IL. The designers featured were: April Vargas, Ariana Magana, Belle Kim, Janine Garcia; LaTonya Williams. See images below of this highly anticipated event.
As promised her are some photos from our senior writer, Petra Kruijt, who had the lucky pleasure of representing Qlix magazine at the O.K. Festival in The Netherlands this past week. Petra says, “The festival was cool. It had a very arty vibe, but there were some very interesting speakers and of course I saw [...]
