Tickets: $15 / person
Include seated ticket for panel discussion and post-reception with complimentary Playpen Vodka Signature Cocktails from 7:45-9:00pm at FORA (right next to panel discussion room).
Curio Members: 2 complimentary tickets (become a member now, with events on December 5 & 9, and a whole 2025 of exciting events, now is the time to join and support Chicago fashion programming.
Evening Schedule:
6:00pm: Doors Open & Welcome Glass of Prosecco (Burrows Hall)
6:30pm: Discussion Begins
7:45pm: Post-Reception in FORA
9:00pm: Event Ends
The Curio is excited to announce its next Fashion Tastemaker Talk on Fashion Content Creation with leading content creators Helen Berkun and Amy Anderson to be moderated by The Curio’s Maggie Gillette.
The Fashion Tastemaker Talks give industry members and consumers an opportunity to hear directly from leading Chicago fashion voices. The discussion is followed by a Q&A and then a lively post-reception.
You can see past talks on Chicago Streetwear with designers Sheila Rashid & Corey Williams (GREYVI) and Scaling a Fashion Business with Janet Mandell and Daliah Saper.
PANELISTS
Amy Anderson Bio
A professional violinist who has taken Chicago fashion content creation by storm. When The Curio first worked with Amy in late 2022, she had 37K followers on Instagram. Now she boasts 400,000. She operates under the name Style Cadenza which reminds her ofher two passions of music and fashion. Cadenza is a musical phrase which refers to an improvised, flashy solo that occurs at the end of a concerto. It gives the soloist an opportunity to show off their virtuosity, originality and skill. Her hope is that she inspires you to express your inner cadenza, whatever that might be, confidently, creatively and unapologetically.
Amy recently won the inaugural $10K Ceta Walters Fashion Content Creator Award at The Curio’s “A Celebration of Chicago Style” on October 9th at the Opening Night Show of Chicago Fashion Week. She was nomincated and selected the winner by a Selection Committee of fashion industry leaders who were friends of Ceta Walters (who sadly passed from a reoccurrence of breast cancer in the summer of 2023). The Committee was composed of Blake Gifford, Helen Berkun, Tali Kogan, Christine Griffith and Janet Mandell.
Read more about Amy Anderson here.
Helen Berkun Bio
Helen Berkun is a fashion photographer, stylist, creative director, influencer, shoe collector and mama. With 20 years in the fashion industry, she has run the gamut from editorial and advertising photography to celebrity styling and commercial print. This multi-talented girl lives, eats, sleeps and breathes fashion.
Born in the former USSR, Helen’s aesthetic is eclectic, trend-driven and artistic—a quality that runs through her family of painters, photographers and designers. After receiving a Fine Arts degree with a photography emphasis from Columbia College Chicago, Helen quickly established herself as an editorial fashion photographer, where she developed a keen eye for composition, lighting and art direction. Her photography is recognized for her fun, beautiful and poppy images.
Helen’s contagious personality and sense of style has made her one of the most in-demand fashion “IT” girls about town. A sought after host for fashion events in Chicago, Helen has gathered the city’s most well-heeled with luxe brands like Teen VOGUE, Neiman Marcus, Cusp, Guess, Decades LA, Coach, Kate Spade, Furla, Thompson Hotel and many more.
Visit her website for more info.
