Fashion designer and entrepreneur Liz Lange thought she might write a memoir one day but never planned on a podcast. Then again, creating a namesake clothing label and selling it…
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Quest For A Cure
What attracted Susan Landau Axelrod to a career in the health sciences was an opportunity to work on access to, and cost of, care for others. She had contemplated becoming…
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Art Instinct
You wouldn’t go out and buy a wardrobe of clothes in one year and assume that’s it forever, and I approach art and design the same way,” says Alan Koppel….
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Best Dressed
Amy Fine Collins didn’t intend to become a muse to fashion designers, nor a journalist. Studying at Swarthmore College and Columbia University, she planned a career in formal art history…
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Skin Deep
Bobbi Brown began her beauty business by revealing what others more traditionally sought to conceal. Her first namesake makeup empire introduced color palettes and products to enhance faces through light…
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La Vielle Maison
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the irresistible and irreverent character of Daisy Buchanan was known to be inspired by Ginevra King, an American socialite from Lake Forest….
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Portraits, Plants, And Peace
Scholarship, style, and solace are some of the many apt descriptions for Dr. Carrie Rebora Barratt. Until just the past few years, she had made a life-long career exclusively at…
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Down To Earth
Nearly two decades ago, Wendy Abrams founded a nonprofit called Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet. Highland Park has always been home base for Abrams, the place where…
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Planting New Roots
During the Kennedy Presidency, Rachel (Bunny) Lambert Mellon served as a trusted advisor to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on the White House interior and gardens’ redecoration. Born into privilege, Mrs….
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Going Once, Going Twice
Gary Metzner is the ultimate civic-minded Chicagoan: connector, cultivator, and connoisseur. He can put together a premier art tour with local artists, dealers, and collectors at a moment’s notice, and…
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