Couture du Jour—April 25, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / April 25, 2006

The hardest thing in Chicago is dealing with the manic-depressive weather that surrounds us. In the morning you leave your apartment in a skirt and skimpy tank top, and then the clouds gather, the wind picks up, and you find yourself running home between classes to grab some more layers. But aside from trying to...

Couture du Jour—April 18, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / April 17, 2006

Certain trends bring comfort to our delicate bodies. Last summer, it was the boho trend. Boho fashions are loose, comfortable, and stylish—clearly, the best of all worlds. This season, the good news affects our feet with the reincorporation of the chunky heel on the fashion scene. While the wedge and the espadrille make a comeback...

Couture du Jour—April 11, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / April 11, 2006

Hyde Park is described in our Chicago Life guidebook as “among the most desirable places to live in the city of Chicago. For students, it provides the essentials of life, along with enough diversions to keep boredom at bay when a trip downtown is not practical.” I highly disagree. There is nothing better to do...

Couture du Jour—April 4, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / April 4, 2006

As we were settling back into the doldrums of busy work during first week, relaxing until the actual work of second week came, the South Asian Student Association (SASA) was furiously putting together their culture show. This year’s show, Khath (which is a letter detailing a journey through India), not only sold out Mandel Hall...

Couture du Jour—March 7, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / March 7, 2006

I never agree with the winners of the Oscars. We all know that Crash was a terrific movie, but it wasn’t a Best Picture. The same goes for Chicago; it was good, but it wasn’t the best. What about Shakespeare in Love? Let’s just say the Academy was way off on that one. So for...

Couture du Jour—February 28, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / February 28, 2006

While winter always leaves me feeling like it will never be warm again—and I will always have a thick overcoat to protect me from the elements—spring is, of course, right around the corner. In Chicago, spring lasts about two weeks, but it’s a glorious period of time between the frigid winter months and the sweaty,...

Couture du Jour—February 21, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / February 21, 2006

Her hair is pulled back in a large coif that sits on top of her forehead, plastered perfectly in place with unknown products that her hairdresser Danilo meticulously combed through her hair. A white ponytail falls down her back, and big silver hoop earrings bounce around as she babbles away to the press. Gwen Stefani...

Couture du Jour—February 14, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / February 14, 2006

Project Alabama is not your everyday, high-end fashion-design house. It’s more like your little old Grandma’s best friend’s quilting group that is suddenly making it big. It all started when Natalie “Alabama” Chanin and Enrico Marone-Cinzano met in New York and decided to create a fashion house. Since then it has become a large-scale, hand-made,...

Couture du Jour—February 7, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / February 7, 2006

In today’s constantly colliding worlds of high fashion and street-chic, jeans have changed from shabby grunge to highbrow elegant. While making this journey, the cost of a pair of jeans has risen to outlandish heights. It all started in 2000 with the company Seven for All Mankind. Since then, independent jeans companies, tailoring high-priced pants...

Couture du Jour – January 31, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / January 31, 2006

Lara Miller doesn’t believe a piece of clothing should be worn in just one way. She wants it to be worn in any way possible, and she demonstrates this philosophy in her spring/summer 2006 line. The Chicago-based designer uses what she calls “stylized geometric patterns of various indigenous Mexican textiles” as her inspiration for this...

Couture du Jour – January 24, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / January 24, 2006

The 2006 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show aired over a month ago on CBS, and yet it has remained one of the most popular searches on many fashion sites. Why has this show remained in our minds? Because we should all commemorate the one night of the year that Karolina Kurkova, Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, and...

Couture du Jour – January 17, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / January 17, 2006

Horizontal corduroy. Don’t get any ideas; it’s already been taken. Chris Lindland was inspired when talking to one of his ex-girlfriends. He wondered why they didn’t exist, and she argued they shouldn’t. Once the girlfriend was gone, he decided to create the first horizontal corduroy pant—and the phenomenon continues growing sideways. Cordarounds.com boasts four different...

Couture du Jour – January 10, 2006

By Sarah Cohan / January 10, 2006

It’s time to look back at 2005 for the most memorable fashion moments. There were so many events and people to choose from, but these five ultra-fashionable selections stood out to me as the most original and beautiful. 1) Not only does Gwen Stefani have the balls to rename four girls Love, Angel, Music, and...

Couture du Jour – November 22, 2005

By Sarah Cohan / November 22, 2005

The University of Chicago held a revolutionary event in Hutch Commons last Friday, November 18. It started at 7 p.m., when the doors opened and people literally poured in to find high-end shopping in Hyde Park. The Chicago Trunk Show, produced by Moda, invited Chicago designers and boutiques from both on and off campus. The...

Couture du Jour – November 15, 2005

By Sarah Cohan / November 15, 2005

The opening day of Stella McCartney’s new line at H&M was stellar, to say the least. Her campaign, notorious for exposing Kate Moss’s cocaine addiction, finally hit stores this last Thursday. H&M’s Michigan Avenue location opened its doors at 10 a.m. to a line that continued all the way around the block. Tape was used...

Couture du Jour – November 8, 2005

By Sarah Cohan / November 8, 2005

The cute, warm, and affordable coat: It sounds like a dream. This “dream” coat is not easy to find, especially living in a city where the inhabitants have to deal with cold, wind, and multiple forms of precipitation. During the spell of warm weather last weekend, I searched for the ultimate winter coat, keeping in...

Couture du Jour – November 1, 2005

By Sarah Cohan / November 1, 2005

Halloween is a time for young trick-or-treaters to go out and get some good candy for free by having fun and dressing up in costume. At the U of C, we have not forgotten this time-honored tradition, and this year many students put their creativity to work for the entire Halloween weekend. On Friday night...

Couture du jour – October 4, 2005

By Sarah Cohan / October 4, 2005

Fall is my favorite time of the year because it’s not too hot anymore and it isn’t cold yet, which allows my inner fashionista to be released. The doldrums of bleak winter jackets haven’t set in and the skimpy tank tops of summer can finally be covered. It seems to me that as we enter...

Farrell’s Alexander is only as great as his dye job in Stone’s pricey bore

By Sarah Cohan / November 23, 2004

“Fortune favors the bold”—except for the people who waste time on this movie. This quote is often repeated in the awful Oliver Stone-produced epic Alexander. It was dreadful from start to finish. I still don’t understand how a moderately talented cast—Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jared Leto, and many more—could create such an excruciatingly...