Since opening her first storefront in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood in 2001, Ikram Goldman has single handedly put America’s Second City on the fashion map. Her eponymous boutique, which moved to a bigger location in 2011, is home to some of the world’s most illustrious designers and their straight-off-the-runway designs–Goldman’s brand roster includes Comme des Garçons, Sacai, Givenchy, Valentino, Fendi, Stella McCartney, and more. Inside her lacquered, crimson-splashed shop with giant porthole windows, you’ll find rows of mannequins dressed in nothing but strands of statement necklaces, as well as a second floor stocked with clothes, gifts, and accessories, as well as a farm-to-table cafe. Brooke Bobb
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What does Southern style look like now? The answer depends on where you look. While some brands are shaped by familial ties in Atlanta, Alissa Bertrand sews the most enchanting and colorful get-ups for her young daughters, and in Texas, sisters Lizzie Means Duplantis and Sarah Means are dressing up the tried-and-true cowboy boot others rely on the land: In Florence, Alabama, Natalie Chanin crafts the pieces in her pared-back collection from locally grown crops. Others still, like Billy Reid’s Alabama-based label, are out to bridge the gap between the old South and the new. “We seek to instill warmth in everything we do,” Reid says.