Here Are The Eight Chicago Designers Kicking Off Chicago Fashion Week in October.

The fashion show, which takes place Oct. 9, is called “A Celebration of Chicago Style” and will spotlight the city’s diverse designers. Fashion events group The Curio announced the eight designers to be featured.

Chicago Fashion Week Returns to Celebrate Creatives, Connect with Consumers

After more than a decade, Chicago Fashion Week is being held again with the city’s endorsement. To kick off the event, The Curio will be hosting a group runway show titled “A Celebration of Chicago Style” Wednesday night at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Ian Gerard: Most Fascinating Chicagoans

“Over the next decade, Chicago will not only be a destination for world-class shopping, but also be known for creativity and industry innovation that will be the result of additional investment and infrastructure changes that will grow the fashion industry base and its offerings here.”

Inaugural Chicago Fashion Week Kicks Off With The Curio Show

The Curio works year-round to support Chicago designers. The company will host the opening show for Chicago Fashion Week. In the studio is The Curio’s Maggie Gillette and designer Barbara Bates.

Dress For It: Behind Chicago’s Revitalized Fashion Week with Co-Founders Ian Gerard and Maggie Gillette

Chicago Fashion Week 2024 is set to make its grand debut, marking the first such undertaking in a decade. We sat down with co-founders Ian Gerard and Maggie Gillette to discuss this landmark event.

Local Fashion Weeks Are on the Rise. Why Now?

Ian Gerard – co-founder of The Curio, which is producing some Chicago Fashion Week events – wants the event to energize the local community and shine a spotlight on Windy City talent. Gerard moved to Chicago mid-pandemic and says he quickly grew aware "of the lack" in its fashion scene.

A Celebration Of Chicago Style

Each year the curio hosts more than a dozen fashion shows, socials and collaborations and now its kicking off Chicago Fashion Week with “A Celebration of Chicago Style.” The show includes everything from streetwear to evening wear with fashion designers of diverse backgrounds.

About Town: Chicago Fashion Week’s Opening Night

The Curio kicked off Chicago Fashion Week with sophistication at it’s “A Celebration of Chicago Style” presented by Abercrombie & Kent at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Chicago Fashion Week Events Highlighted Local Designers

After a hiatus of almost ten years, the upgraded iteration of our local fashion week finally arrived. The series of events, workshops, and exhibitions opened on October 9 with “A Celebration of Chicago Style”, a fashion show hosted at the Chicago Cultural Center. 

Chicago Fashion Week celebrates city's evolving styles.

Promising to be a diverse and deep dive in Chicago’s fashion scene, the first-ever Chicago Fashion Week will feature 12 days of runway shows, panel discussions, in-store events and more. NBC Chicago’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

NoMI Gallery x The Curio: Chicago Fashion Week

For as long as creative advertising has existed, there has been a tension between commercial photography and fine art. Fashion photography is no exception. The process of creating fashion photography requires a unique collaboration between photographer and designer…

The Curio

At the opening runway show of Chicago Fashion Week, some of Chicago’s best fashion designers including Maria Pinto, Barbara Bates, Sheila Rashid, Christina Karin, Gente Fina, Justin LeBlanc and I Am Studios presented their collections on the runway before a sold-out audience of 500.

Designer Sheila Rashid preps for first-ever Chicago Fashion Week in October

Chicago area designers are already preparing for the first official Fashion Week in the city.  The inaugural event doesn't happen until October, but they are already beginning to work on their collections for the shows.

Chicago Fashion Week 2024

This October offers extra-special reasons for the style set to celebrate. Chicago Fashion Week will host 50 extraordinary events. The Curio, an organization connecting fashion creators and the culturally curious, kicks things off with  “A Celebration of Chicago Style” presented by Abercrombie & Kent.

Columbia Professor Showcases Collection On Opening Night of Chicago Fashion Week

The Curio opened the first official event for Chicago Fashion Week on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at the Chicago Cultural Center, with eight different designers featured including Justin Dougan- LeBlanc, a Columbia College associate fashion professor.

Curio's “A Celebration of Chicago Style” Kicks Off Chicago Fashion Week

A Celebration of Chicago Style kicked off the city-endorsed Chicago Fashion Week on Oct. 9. Organized by The Curio, this opening runway show showcased eight designers, featuring both nationally recognized names and emerging talent from the Windy City.

Chicago Fashion Week is Here

Chicago's first Fashion Week starts Wednesday, featuring runway shows, exhibitions and opportunities for designers to show off their work. The city's fashion industry lacked a citywide event.

Chicago Fashion Week Will Turn the City Into a Runway This Fall

More than 50 events across Chicago featuring local designers will take place in October, with many open to the public and free to attend. Chicago will host a 12-day fashion week Oct. 9-20, featuring fashion shows, award ceremonies and more.

A Recap of Chicago Fashion Week 2024

Just like that, we say goodbye to the first official Chicago Fashion Week. It wraps up for the 2024 season. There were over 50+ events throughout the city.

Fall Fashion Focus

Chicago Fashion Week seeks to attract global attention to the city’s local designers. Hosted by the Curio, a local fashion organization aimed at highlighting Chicago designers.

Local Fashion Designers To Show Off Creations This Weekend

The Curio’s 3rd Annual Fashion Night Out is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 8th. The event features the designs of seven rising Chicago-based designers.

Chicago Fashion Week Is Coming This Fall

For 12 days in October, the city’s inaugural fashion week will spotlight local designers in fashion shows, marketplaces and other public events. The inaugural Chicago Fashion Week is coming this fall, spotlighting local designers and the city’s fashion scene.

Everything We Know About the First-Ever Chicago Fashion Week Happening This Fall

Fall in Chicago is about to get even more interesting: Officials have announced the launch of the first Chicago Fashion Week, set to run for 12 days starting October 9 through October 20.

Feels Like Fashion Week

Chicago doesn’t have an official Fashion Week, but perhaps we should. Chicago boasts a lot about our visual arts, architecture, music, gastronomy, and comedy scenes, but local fashion isn’t always on people’s radars…

Second to None: The Curio’s Mission to Rise the Chicago Fashion Scene to the Top

“The mission of The Curio is twofold: to bring together and champion the Chicago fashion industry, and to showcase and elevate the best local fashion talent.”

21c Museum Hotel Chicago Hosts A Star-Studded Fashion Show

Style-focused social group The Curio hosted a dazzling runway show at the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago honoring on-the-rise creatives and esteemed Chicago-based designer Maria Pinto’s 10th anniversary collection.

Windy City Style

Held at the 21c Museum Hotel, the event was presented by fashion start-up, The Curio, which was established to promote Chicago-based designers. It showcased four rising star designers - Ajovang, Lola Elan, Production Mode and Sheila Rashid.

A Showcase of Chicago's Fashion Designers & Style

A celebration of Chicago style. The event is tonight at the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago and will honor rising fashion designers and a fashion icon joining us today. Here with more on tonight's event and a showcase of some amazing designs is fashion photographer and tv personality Nigel Barker and fashion designer Maria Pinto.

A Celebration of Chicago Style: Runway Fashion at its Finest

Chicago fashion is alive, well and thriving as witnessed by the chic, high volume number of guests who turned out for one of the hottest runway shows seen here in a long time. The Curio and the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago presented  “A Celebration of Chicago Style” on May 31, hosted by Cynthia Rowley and Nigel Barker.

Hats Off to the Hats

At the end of April, The Curio and the Chicago Fashion Coalition joined forces to promote a networking event for the local fashion crowd at Chop Shop in Wicker Park. The main orchestrator of the gathering was New York transplant Ian Gerard, the co-founder and principal of The Curio.