Lisa Bertagnoli

Josephine Cygal's wedding dress, first worn in June 1943, wasn't exactly pampered over the years. When it wasn't playing a part during a game of dress-up, it lay unwrapped and...

Just call Sarah Kincaid "Miss September." She won't mind at all. The 36-year-old Chicagoan was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer eight years ago. To celebrate being cancer-free, Kincaid posed--in a...

One way to show economic power is to buy a lot of stuff. Another way to show that power? Don't buy any stuff at all. That's the thinking behind Tuesday's...

You might shop for shoes at 4 p.m., when your feet are at their fullest. You might wear the same kind of socks you will wear with the shoes you...

One usually does not see children at $300-a-ticket fundraisers. But kids, dozens of them, scampered about (or simply sat around) at the 24th annual Juvenile Diabetes Foundation auction, dinner and...

Ladies' Man-About-Town Bunky Cushing would never dangle the phrase "old bags" anywhere near his fashionable female friends. So when he asked those friends to donate used designer handbags to the...

Trumpets do not usually greet Mike Etscheid when he walks into a hotel. But when the machinist from Ottawa, Ill., stepped into the Chicago Hilton and Towers one recent evening,...

Who says fashion people don't eat? Professional models, trend wizards and media creatures snacked on 9,000 hors d'oeuvres while sipping champagne and Ruby Red martinis to celebrate Swedish retailer H&M's...

Today's brides might write their own vows, walk themselves down the aisle or wear something other than a fluffy white gown. But after they marry, most American women hold on...