The beautiful Dragon Dance, amid a Chinese New Year’s dinner at Phillippe Chow had me wondering all about the culture –once again. Serving classic Beijing style cuisine amid the luxury, tavern-like ambiance, glamorous crispy duck, carved out into perfection by the founder himself—Phillip Chow—walnut seasoned prawn, chicken satay, dancing dragons, and a golden specialty ‘yunbao’ cocktail […]
At first, a hardware store hardly seems an appropriate venue for a runway. However, for Amanda Mehl’s AW19 show, “Love Handles,” the wrenches, paint samples, and fake grass at Garber’s made the perfect environment. The industrial surroundings provided an intense juxtaposition to the prominently featured animal prints and faux fur. These animalistic elements were paired […]
Robert Mango’s art lives in the space where the real and the imagined converge—a place of myth-making, dream-making, and surrealist logic. From his formative years in Chicago, he stood out at the School of the Art Institute, where he quickly became, as he puts it, “the darling of the teachers there” because he had “a […]
