The Chicago History Museum exhibits work by America's first high-fashion designer by Sam Worley The fashion world took note when actress Marisa Tomei attended the 2011 Academy Awards dressed in a gown designed by Charles James, the mid-20th-century haute couturier who got his sartorial start making hats in Chicago. Tomei's appearance, wrote one blogger, "was both a delight to the senses and a shock to the system for those who feel that garments of such exquisite workmanship and intelligent design that have passed the half century mark should be preserved and not promenaded."? [ Read more ]
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