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The Chicago History Museum announces the
next stage in FashioNext; a design competition
featuring established Chicago designers who are
each creating a couture garment inspired by one
of five selected pieces from the exhibition, Chic
Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago
History Museum. The five designers have
submitted their design sketches and fabric
swatches that will be used to create their original
piece.

FashioNext is a fashion design competition
featuring established Chicago area designers
Jermikko Shoshanna (Jermikko), Melissa Serpico
Kamhout (Serpico), Lauren Lein (Lauren Lein
Ltd.), Paul Sisti, and William Thomas Walton and
Roger Price (Price Walton). Three selected
finalists will each create a couture garment
inspired by one of five pieces from the exhibition
Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the
Chicago History Museum. The winning garment
will become part of the Museum's permanent
costume collection, one of the premier costume
collections in the world, and will be placed on
display in Chic Chicago for the remainder of the
exhibition run.

On the anniversary of Bertha
Honoré Palmer’s 160th birthday,
the Chicago History Museum will
open an exhibition featuring a
selection of her clothing and
personal effects that will honor this
remarkable and influential Chicago
woman.

The exhibition opening May 23,
2009 explores Bertha Honoré
Palmer’s efforts to promote
women’s lives and achievements
and her later career as a
successful business woman.

“The exhibition will tell the stories
of her magnificent achievements
and how she built relationships
that allowed her to make such an
important impact on Chicago and
the world,” stated Gary T. Johnson,
Museum president. Palmer
achieved positions of great
responsibility, influence, and social
stature by wearing traditional but
exquisite attire of the period and
thinking like a modern woman.