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Slay Station: “Fashion is a reflection of my inner self”

SAIC fashion student Lindsay Protosaltis (BFA 2025) on her journey and philosophy

I Thought FOMO Was A Myth – And Then My Favorite Designer Closed Her Brand

Writer Vienne Molinaro reflects on the end of a brand and missing a moment.

The World According to Izzy DiPietro

Designer Izzy DiPietro discusses finding her fashion path and working intuitively.

A Walk Through an “Available City”

The 2021 Architecture Biennial addresses Chicago's abundance of vacant lots, reimagining them as sites of emergence.

It Came From the Medicine Cabinet

An interview with artist Martha Poggioli.

No Good

A comic by Anavi Bhushan Nugyal.

Citizens of Modernism

A show at the AIC explores Mexican arts' influence on a set of international artists and designers.

Architect of Style

Virgil Abloh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Social Architectures

"Dimensions of Citizenship," on view at Wrightwood 659, weaves together architecture, the individual, and the global.

Building Across Disciplines

Jonathan Solomon, director of AIADO, talks design and citizenship.

Regressing Céline

What happens when the female gaze is erased by a male one?

How Branding Helped Get A 28-Year-Old Nominated to Congress

It’s an identity system built and executed thoughtfully and cleverly. But is the brand truly “radical?”

Radical, Man!

Dan Friedman's rule-breaking contributed significantly to the trajectory of modern design and typography, and his self-curated show is now on view at the Chicago Design Museum.

The ‘Future is Feminine,’ the Present is Pesce

Prolific architect and designer Gaetano Pesce was as candid and controversial as we hoped in a recent talk at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Identity Politics, Heh.

A fair (but also kind of snarky) analysis of 2016 presidential campaign designs.