Category Archives: Apparel
RE.STOCK Shopping and Fashion Show June 6th
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From 5pm-7pm we’ll be joined at our new storefront (3519 N. Halsted) by our hosts Michael and Derrick of Best Gay Chicago and FIAT of Chicago for an exclusive shopping event full of special discounts, VIP goody bags and more!
And just in case you’re late joining the party, we invite you to join
us for an after hours party back at the shop, where we’ll have special
in-store specials until 11pm!
Chicago House Spring Brunch May 5th
MB Financial Presents WONDERLAND
The 2013 Spring Brunch and Fashion Show
“If I had a
world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what
it is, because everything would be what it isn’t!
And contrariwise,
what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?“
When: May 5, 2013 Time: Noon to 3:30p.m.
Where: Harold Washington Library, Winter Garden Ballroom, 400 South State Street
Runway Seating: $300 Garden Seating: $200
For more information or to purchase VIP tickets, call Beth at (773) 248-5200 x303. Space is limited, this event will sell out! Tickets online now.
Get Dosed! At Dose Market Sunday April 14
Dose
is a monthly market featuring the finest selection of vendors in one
place: the modern, lofted halls of the River East Art Center. Join us
once a month to celebrate Chicago’s most dynamic gathering of innovative
fashion, artisan food and high design.
Sunday!
$10 gets you in – Free cocktails and food tastings and Fabulous shopping!
You heard it here first: this is the finest drinking vodka on the planet and it wears its Chicago stars with pride. Next Star Vodka make
their DOSE debut with gratis pours of their stellar Chicago mule —
ginger beer, lime juice and their fanatic-inspiring spirit — the perfect
way to get ready for your Très Awesome photoshoot.
favorite outfit (or build it at the Market and get plenty of help) and
find yourself on the sweep in front of Chicago’s reigning street-style
maven, Emma Arnold of Très Awesome. With
seriously cool technology, you’ll not only get a great shot, you’ll
have a shot at winning some fantastic Spring accessories.
finest brews, wines and spirits free of charge if you’re the appropriate
age. We realize, though, different strokes for different folks. You may
now trade in your drink ticket for DOSE h2o!
CHI will be providing DOSE-goers the opportunity to try the service and
snag a free ride to the Market this Sunday! Just enter the code
ILOVEDOSE for a $15 credit toward your first ride.
“Unite: For the Love of Fashion” benefiting EdgeAlliance Aug 1
Unite for a good cause and a fashion show!
We’ll join together in Boystown with some of Chicago’s hottest fashion
designers…and all to benefit EdgeAlliance.
Sponsored by Designs by Rosa
Hosted by Mission 2 Organize
Designers: J. TOOR and SHAH RIAZ
*Fashions will be available for sale at event.
Hair & Makeup: Siren Salon
Nosh: Garrett Popcorn Shops
Silent Auction Donations:
element wellness center
J.TOOR
Stuart Rodgers Photography
Trunk Club
Ward Nipper
Aligned Modern Health
Garrett Popcorn Shops
Mission 2 Organize
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW $15 in advance, $20 at the door
100% OF THE PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT EdgeAlliance. EdgeAlliance transforms
the lives of people impacted by HIV/AIDS and those living on the edge of
society.
Ben Cohen in Chicago this Week Promoting his STAND UP Anti-Bullying Project
In case you don’t know, the Gay Softball World Series is town this week!
Also in town is BEN COHEN, ranked as one the World’s Best Rugby Players.
At the top of his game, this heterosexual man decided to retire from Rugby to launch the world’s first organization dedicated solely to the cause of anti-bullying, wherever and to whomever it occurs. STAND UP with BEN COHEN.
Some years ago, early in the evolution of social media, a fan page for the English rugby player appeared on Facebook. “It had about 30,000 people on it at the time, and they were all men,” recalls Cohen.
Cohen, who is married with twin daughters, found the attention flattering, but also a responsibility. “People were telling us their stories, and I felt it was important to respond,” he says. “I know what bullying does, and I know it can tear you apart, and that, for a lot of young gay men or people who are perceived to be different, there is no family infrastructure to turn to, no support.”
He has been in town this week, making personal appearances and spreading his message.
TODAY, Tuesday August 30th – Ben will join the Chicago Dragons for Rugby Practice! On CRICKET HILL at Wilson and Lake Shore Drive , at 5-6pm.
Then from 8-11pm tonight, Ben will be at Sidetrack in Boystown hosting a live auction to raise money and awareness for his project. (Nicknamed BIG BEN, last year he donated one of his jockstraps to a charity event!)
Ben is very passionate about his project. He says, “We are not about a lot of hot air. We are a TAKE ACTION group!” Already in just four months, STAND UP has sky rocketed! And soon, a major sports goods label is going to jump on board….Nike? Adidas? they can’t say just yet, but the announcement is coming soon.
Get some STAND UP gear online now!
BestGayChicago.com
So You Wanna Be a Designer, online fashion reality show
WHAT: Aspiring designers, fashion-forward creatives and those who think their stylish imagination and originality are a cut above the rest are welcome to apply today for ‘So You Wanna Be a Designer, a Kenmore Live Studio online fashion reality show.
If you’d like to appear on So You Wanna Be a Designer to take the ultimate designers’ journey and compete for the chance to show your work to fashion insiders and a captive online audience, the time to apply is now.
Hosted by Debbie Jagel and broadcast on Facebook, the show will expose six selected contestants to top designers, stylists and photographers as they learn the ins and outs of the fashion business and compete for a grand prize of $20,000 and a Kenmore Elite laundry pair.
If you’ve dreamt of making it in the fashion world, this is your opportunity to showcase your skills in a new, online approach to reality competition. Invitations for contestants, which will take place in Chicago, will be issued in March.
WHEN: Apply Now through – March 4
WHERE: To apply, visit facebook.com/kenmore and click “Be a Designer” on the left hand side of the page.
Kenmore Live Studio is at 678 N. Wells Street (312) 265-0871
WHO/ INTERVIEW: In-studio interview with host Debbie Jagel, Chicago fashionista and boutique owner, about the show (alternative: at Kenmore Live Studio)
Best Gay Chicago.com
Vintage Drag and Fashion Runway Show and Market in Highwood September 18th
The City of Highwood and Image Pilots, producers of
Chicago’s high energy, retro-spectacle Randolph Street Market Festival, will end its inaugural season with a bang. Opening its arms to the gay community on Saturday September 18th from 10 am to 6 pm, the Fest will feature a Vintage Drag and Fashion Runway Show at 12:30 pm, along with a magnificent Martini bar, fabulous food, live music and, of course, shopping.
Attracting vendors from all across the U.S., the festival brings the area’s largest monthly vintage and indie designer event to the North Shore, where shoppers will find all the best in antiques, collectibles and vintage treasures from the 1800’s to Mid-Century Modern to Punk 1980’s. Interior designers and decorators, personal shoppers and stylists can find some of the most unique items from jewelry, furniture, clothing, linens, silver, glass, and more, at this unique and eclectic upscale antique market.
“It has been great being a part of Highwood this year, and we want to make sure the gay community is aware of what this Festival and wonderful city offers,” says Sally Schwartz, founder of Image Pilots. “Highwood is a great destination for dining, entertainment and shopping, and only a Metra stop away from the City of Chicago.”
The Last 2010 Weekend
Kicks Off with Martini’s & Drag in the Park,
Saturday September 18th
“Ladies” of Chicagoland will invade Highwood and be strutting their stuff around the Highwood Street Market on Saturday September 18th. Headlining the day will be a vintage drag and fashion runway show at 12:30 pm at the Festival’s gazebo. The show will feature local drag queens modeling vendors’vintage clothing, as well as impersonation performances. Local restaurant vendors will be selling their food and YES! Vodka will provide mouthwatering martinis, all the ingredients for a perfect picnic in the park. With Highwood being an easy Metra train ride from the city, Chicago’s gay community in encourage to come up, shop around, and enjoy the show while lounging with martinis.
Antique Appraisal Tent-
The Highwood Street Market Festival brings together some 100 vendors from all over the United States, as well as local independent designers, to showcase their high-end antiques and vintage wares,including jewelry, bags, artwork and furniture. Attendees will also have the opportunity to find out the value of their antique treasures at the Antique Appraisal Tent for $5 per item.
HIGHWOOD STREET MARKET FESTIVAL GENERAL INFORMATION
WHEN: September 18th and 19th
Saturday from 10am-6pm and special extended hours on Sunday from 10am-5pm(Drag Show on Saturday only.)
WHERE: The Festival will fill the parking lots of the Highwood Library (102 Highwood Avenue)and Everts Park
PRICE: Admission is $6 and good for both days, and is free to Highwood residents with ID. Military men and woman and kids under 12 are free. Advanced discount tickets can be purchased for $5 online at Highwood Street Market .
FREE TICKETS!
BEST GAY CHICAGO.com has a LIMITED NUMBER of FREE ADDMISSION TICKETS! CALL ME NOW, IF YOU WOULD LIKE A PAIR OF FREE PASSES! 773-878-5323
PARKING: Free and ample street parking is available. Valet Parking is also available. Parking also at the Oak Terrace School is located on S. Central Avenue off Route 22.
For more information call 312-666-1200
FYI – The Randolph Street Market Festival is an internationally recognized European-style indoor and outdoor market in Chicago’s West Loop district that features more than 200 select purveyors of high quality, value-priced “finds,” offering unlimited creative inspiration and hours of shopping and entertainment. The Market is located along the 1350 block of W. Randolph Street and will take place on Sept. 25-26, Saturday 10 a.m.–5p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. General admission $12, good for both days. Tickets are $9 when purchased online at randolphstreetmarket.com; $5 admission for students with ID. Children 12 and under free. For more information, visit Randolph Street Market .
Chicago House 2 days of Brunch and Fashion
This past weekend CHICAGO HOUSE hosted their Annual Spring Brunch and Fashion Shows. This hugely popular event is always well-attended and this weekend, lots of money was raised for this awesome charity group. Hot models, hot fashions, music by Phil DaBeatz , flowing brunch drinks and brunch food and a sunny warm day made for a spectacular celebration!
Even with the best laid plans and countless sound checks, fill a venue with 800-900 people and something is bound to go wrong! The acoustics at the Harold Washington Library wreaked havoc on the speakers messages and sadly, most were not audible by all in attendance, depending on where you were sitting.
Rev. Stan Sloan delivered a great speech, and we wanted to share it here, in case you missed it.
The author Elizabeth Srout says every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. I think what she is trying to say is that every one of us has aspects of our lives that we are proud of, and every one of us has aspects of our lives that we wish we could do over…and this time smarter, do better, do with more integrity . Many of you may have read the obituary a few weeks ago for Jim Dohr. For those of you that didn’t know or read about him, Jim became HIV+ in the mid 80’s when AIDS was a near immediate death sentence for nearly everyone who syro converted. His response to watching his friends and peers with HIV die while he was spared for over two decades was to spend his life making life better for men, women, and children affected by AIDS. Here are just a few lines from his obituary in the papers:
it was Jim’s HIV diagnosis which perhaps had the most profound impact on his work, and his desire to help others. Says Judith Johns, former executive director of Howard Brown and former assistant commissioner of health for the City of Chicago, “Jim was one of the men who survived for many years after diagnosis – this was encouragement and hope for others…For the last 18 years, Jim consistently provided outstanding services to co-workers, community-based organizations, and all persons living with HIV, he truly understood the impact this epidemic has had on individuals and our community as a whole.”
Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments, and that was easy to do for Jim Dohr. . Chicago House and our clients are just a small portion of the lives he touched in his work with the Chicago Department of Public Health, The HIV/AIDS communities will miss Jim and his life of better moments for decades to come.
Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. After seeing thousands of lives affected by HIV/AIDS over the last ten years at Chicago House one life stands out for me in haunting contrast to Jim’s. The beginning of that life story is actually not atypical of most of our clients. It is the story of a woman who showed up at the door of our supportive living program exhausted, defeated, and finally ready to try working toward a different way of life. What made her story so unique, though, was not its beginning but its ending. Kirsten, our staff person on call that day, learned during the intake interview that the woman grew up on the streets of Chicago and lived her life hustling on those streets for her 42 years of life. Forty two years old and she had never had a job, or an apartment, or even a bed to call her own. She answered the questions honestly and completely until she was stumped toward the end of the interview when Kirsten asked her for the name and number of an emergency contact. 42 years old and not one relative, not one friend to call in the case of an emergency. Kirsten left those questions blank and showed the woman to her new room and home at Chicago House.
The rooms at our Supportive Living Program are our only ones that are just that: private bedrooms with shared living spaces and shared bathrooms, but Kirsten told me that when the woman first saw her room she turned with tears in her eyes and said that it was the first home she had ever had. A few hours later Kirsten went to check on her and found her passed out on the floor. We called 911 and she was admitted to Cook County hospital. When she woke up later that day Kirsten was there at her bedside, and she asked Kirsten for the only other favor Chicago House was able to provide to her: “please don’t let me die alone,” she said. And Kirsten kept that promise, staying with her until the next morning when she died. The Supportive Living Program held a service for her, and although none of our other residents had met her, they all attended. Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. The silence that filled that room was deafening. Could it really be that after forty two years of life there were really no “better moments” to remember?
In your bags as you leave today you will find a cookie from Chicago House’s Bakery: Sweet Miss Givings : Unquestionably Kind. Unreasonably Good! As most of you know by now, Sweet Miss Giving’s is the best made from scratch bakery in Chicago, and over 50% of its profits go immediately back to help the men, women, and children in our care. But you will find something more about Sweet Miss Giving’s in your departure bag. The bag will also hold a one-page story of RJ, one of our recent graduates of Sweet Miss Giving’s Bakery Internship program. Before joining the SMG internship program seven months ago, RJ’s life was not much different from the woman who died in Kirsten’s care. He lived on the streets for his first 30-plus years of life, and after nine years in prison he had returned to those streets. But RJ, too, was finally ready to try a different way of life. Chicago House and SMG have provided that opportunity. Next month he will not only become a full time employee of Sweet Miss Giving’s, but he will move into his own apartment with his now life partner…an apartment where the son he has never known will visit and fill in voids that he in his previous life never knew he had.
Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. It’s a nice thought and an easy one to fulfill when you, like Jim Dohr and I can only imagine most of us here, have lived a life full of moments encouraged by family and friends. Kirsten’s client lived without knowing those moments, and she died before Chicago House could help her learn how amazing it feels to have hope, and integrity, and sense of accomplishment. But thanks to Chicago House she died with a home to call her own, and she died in the company of someone who cared. RJ’s just now beginning a new life filled with better moments, but I am confident with the help of Chicago House and Sweet Miss Giving’s that life will continue to grow and unfold. And I am confident that one day…hopefully many, many years from now, there will be plenty of better moments to remember as his friends and family look back on his life. Your support here and your support of Chicago House and Sweet Miss Giving’s is what allows us to provide those better moments to those who have never had the chance to build them. So thank you from RJ and thank you from all of us. Life by life. Moment by moment, your support is making such a difference. Chicago House. We were there at the beginning. We will be here until the cure. Thanks again.
In my talk I stressed the importance of being remembered for your better moments, and now it is time to do just that for a dear friend of mine and a dear friend of Chicago House’s and Sweet Miss Giving’s Bakery, Brad Werner. Brad Werner came to hear of Chicago House through our dear friends Mary and Larry Boeder, and he has been a source of constant blessings for us since that time. Brad served Chicago House well as a board member and major donor until the time that we asked him to step down in order to assume an even larger role for our mission and our clients: that of becoming the largest investor of Sweet Miss Giving’s Bakery.
Brad, Gus Atsalis, and Jay Deratany stepped up to the plate to help give Sweet Miss Giving’s its start, and Brad has continued to guide and nurture the bakery to assure its success. In addition, he has brought additional friends and investors to Sweet Miss Giving’s, and it is safe to say that there would be no SMG without him. Brad, the life of Chicago House and the lives of our clients are forever changed because of Sweet Miss Giving’s and because of you. In recognition of your outstanding contribution the Chicago House Board of Trustees is making you the seventh…and when I say seventh…I mean seven out of our 25 year history…our Seventh Lifetime Trustee. Know how grateful we are to you, and know how much we love you here. Thank you Brad Werner!
(MORE PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT ONLINE AT FACEBOOK)
The events were a great success and we look forward to the next Chicago House event,
Birdhouse Art Auction June 24, 2010 @ Room & Board Chicago Store
Chicago House 2 days of Brunch and Fashion
This past weekend CHICAGO HOUSE hosted their Annual Spring Brunch and Fashion Shows. This hugely popular event is always well-attended and this weekend, lots of money was raised for this awesome charity group. Hot models, hot fashions, music by Phil DaBeatz , flowing brunch drinks and brunch food and a sunny warm day made for a spectacular celebration!
Even with the best laid plans and countless sound checks, fill a venue with 800-900 people and something is bound to go wrong! The acoustics at the Harold Washington Library wreaked havoc on the speakers messages and sadly, most were not audible by all in attendance, depending on where you were sitting.
Rev. Stan Sloan delivered a great speech, and we wanted to share it here, in case you missed it.
The author Elizabeth Srout says every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. I think what she is trying to say is that every one of us has aspects of our lives that we are proud of, and every one of us has aspects of our lives that we wish we could do over…and this time smarter, do better, do with more integrity . Many of you may have read the obituary a few weeks ago for Jim Dohr. For those of you that didn’t know or read about him, Jim became HIV+ in the mid 80’s when AIDS was a near immediate death sentence for nearly everyone who syro converted. His response to watching his friends and peers with HIV die while he was spared for over two decades was to spend his life making life better for men, women, and children affected by AIDS. Here are just a few lines from his obituary in the papers:
it was Jim’s HIV diagnosis which perhaps had the most profound impact on his work, and his desire to help others. Says Judith Johns, former executive director of Howard Brown and former assistant commissioner of health for the City of Chicago, “Jim was one of the men who survived for many years after diagnosis – this was encouragement and hope for others…For the last 18 years, Jim consistently provided outstanding services to co-workers, community-based organizations, and all persons living with HIV, he truly understood the impact this epidemic has had on individuals and our community as a whole.”
Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments, and that was easy to do for Jim Dohr. . Chicago House and our clients are just a small portion of the lives he touched in his work with the Chicago Department of Public Health, The HIV/AIDS communities will miss Jim and his life of better moments for decades to come.
Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. After seeing thousands of lives affected by HIV/AIDS over the last ten years at Chicago House one life stands out for me in haunting contrast to Jim’s. The beginning of that life story is actually not atypical of most of our clients. It is the story of a woman who showed up at the door of our supportive living program exhausted, defeated, and finally ready to try working toward a different way of life. What made her story so unique, though, was not its beginning but its ending. Kirsten, our staff person on call that day, learned during the intake interview that the woman grew up on the streets of Chicago and lived her life hustling on those streets for her 42 years of life. Forty two years old and she had never had a job, or an apartment, or even a bed to call her own. She answered the questions honestly and completely until she was stumped toward the end of the interview when Kirsten asked her for the name and number of an emergency contact. 42 years old and not one relative, not one friend to call in the case of an emergency. Kirsten left those questions blank and showed the woman to her new room and home at Chicago House.
The rooms at our Supportive Living Program are our only ones that are just that: private bedrooms with shared living spaces and shared bathrooms, but Kirsten told me that when the woman first saw her room she turned with tears in her eyes and said that it was the first home she had ever had. A few hours later Kirsten went to check on her and found her passed out on the floor. We called 911 and she was admitted to Cook County hospital. When she woke up later that day Kirsten was there at her bedside, and she asked Kirsten for the only other favor Chicago House was able to provide to her: “please don’t let me die alone,” she said. And Kirsten kept that promise, staying with her until the next morning when she died. The Supportive Living Program held a service for her, and although none of our other residents had met her, they all attended. Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. The silence that filled that room was deafening. Could it really be that after forty two years of life there were really no “better moments” to remember?
In your bags as you leave today you will find a cookie from Chicago House’s Bakery: Sweet Miss Givings : Unquestionably Kind. Unreasonably Good! As most of you know by now, Sweet Miss Giving’s is the best made from scratch bakery in Chicago, and over 50% of its profits go immediately back to help the men, women, and children in our care. But you will find something more about Sweet Miss Giving’s in your departure bag. The bag will also hold a one-page story of RJ, one of our recent graduates of Sweet Miss Giving’s Bakery Internship program. Before joining the SMG internship program seven months ago, RJ’s life was not much different from the woman who died in Kirsten’s care. He lived on the streets for his first 30-plus years of life, and after nine years in prison he had returned to those streets. But RJ, too, was finally ready to try a different way of life. Chicago House and SMG have provided that opportunity. Next month he will not only become a full time employee of Sweet Miss Giving’s, but he will move into his own apartment with his now life partner…an apartment where the son he has never known will visit and fill in voids that he in his previous life never knew he had.
Every person deserves to be remembered for his or her better moments. It’s a nice thought and an easy one to fulfill when you, like Jim Dohr and I can only imagine most of us here, have lived a life full of moments encouraged by family and friends. Kirsten’s client lived without knowing those moments, and she died before Chicago House could help her learn how amazing it feels to have hope, and integrity, and sense of accomplishment. But thanks to Chicago House she died with a home to call her own, and she died in the company of someone who cared. RJ’s just now beginning a new life filled with better moments, but I am confident with the help of Chicago House and Sweet Miss Giving’s that life will continue to grow and unfold. And I am confident that one day…hopefully many, many years from now, there will be plenty of better moments to remember as his friends and family look back on his life. Your support here and your support of Chicago House and Sweet Miss Giving’s is what allows us to provide those better moments to those who have never had the chance to build them. So thank you from RJ and thank you from all of us. Life by life. Moment by moment, your support is making such a difference. Chicago House. We were there at the beginning. We will be here until the cure. Thanks again.
In my talk I stressed the importance of being remembered for your better moments, and now it is time to do just that for a dear friend of mine and a dear friend of Chicago House’s and Sweet Miss Giving’s Bakery, Brad Werner. Brad Werner came to hear of Chicago House through our dear friends Mary and Larry Boeder, and he has been a source of constant blessings for us since that time. Brad served Chicago House well as a board member and major donor until the time that we asked him to step down in order to assume an even larger role for our mission and our clients: that of becoming the largest investor of Sweet Miss Giving’s Bakery.
Brad, Gus Atsalis, and Jay Deratany stepped up to the plate to help give Sweet Miss Giving’s its start, and Brad has continued to guide and nurture the bakery to assure its success. In addition, he has brought additional friends and investors to Sweet Miss Giving’s, and it is safe to say that there would be no SMG without him. Brad, the life of Chicago House and the lives of our clients are forever changed because of Sweet Miss Giving’s and because of you. In recognition of your outstanding contribution the Chicago House Board of Trustees is making you the seventh…and when I say seventh…I mean seven out of our 25 year history…our Seventh Lifetime Trustee. Know how grateful we are to you, and know how much we love you here. Thank you Brad Werner!
(MORE PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT ONLINE AT FACEBOOK)
The events were a great success and we look forward to the next Chicago House event,
Birdhouse Art Auction June 24, 2010 @ Room & Board Chicago Store
Benjamin Bradshaw – Queer Chicago’s Eclectic Fashionista
Originally from Florida, Benjamin Bradshaw, 22, always had eye for eclectic fashion.
“I was trendy for Florida, but, dude, I worked at Hollister when I was 17.
I moved to Chicago for school in Fashion Merchandising but I’m definitely moving in the direction of entrepreneurship. About a year ago I was randomly approached in public by a local stylist to do some random modeling and I got to wear the clothes of an amazing wacky local 80’s & 90’s vintage store named KokoRokoko.
I went to the shop after the show ended, fell in love, and and forced them to take me as an intern. I started doing windows for them, then we became best friends, then I just randomly began buying for them without asking because I understood their wacky style… they liked everything I brought in & they’d pay me the exact money or it.
I slowly started keeping the most amazing garments I found and at some point I realized I could make money off of my closet full of ridiculous sheer dresses and jumpsuits. It’s been a month of selling but I’m confident that my specialized goods have enough customers… & everyone who visits falls in love whether or not they’re ballsy enough to wear the clothes out.”
Benjamin calls his clothes…
Vintage Party Gear For Ladies Of All Genders.
“I go to a lot of gay dance parties, like Chances Dances , so I’m stocking dance wear, mainly, for gay guys and girls. It’s a bit eccentric; leaning towards the feminine side.
Wacky shit: body suits, sequins, sheer stuff. Right now, I have about 80-90 solid pieces, plus accessories. And still shopping – still adding on. I try to pick stuff that my grandma would’ve worn in the ’90s—lots of really horrible floral prints and crazy stuff. It’s very sill. It’s meant to be fun!”
SisterMan is officially an Etsy-based business online , which just launched this month. So new things are being added all the time.
Check out the Sisterman blog for lots of updates and see what’s happening and where he’ll be showing his collections next.
“I set up at The Bonanza this past month – a monthly vintage sale that is held at Berlin nightclub. It was set up for local brick-and-mortar shops & Etsy vendors a few months ago & it works because it’s fairly constant. There are a few other vintage sales like it, but it’s nice for me because it’s at a gay club. I am doing something at Heaven Gallery in Wicker Park and lots of other stuff in the coming months. And people can always contact me through the blog and Facebook. “
WHAT’S NEXT?!
“I just quit my job & I’m trying to up the ante with Etsy & build clientele in the local gay community. This summer I’ll be at lots of gallery, club, and outdoor sales and I’ve extended an invite to the DJ’s and promoters of a few gay parties to use my goods in exchange for publicity.
Yesterday I helped a friend with a little movie project here locally and got to wear some of my clothes for that. And of course, I’ll be out dancing and partying in the name of networking.”
Find Benjamin and SisterMan on FaceBook
or the SisterMan blog .