You know when you meet someone and they have this effortless style that you just can’t get enough of? Well, that’s how I feel about this month’s Chi City’s Most Stylish — Chelsea McGrath.

You know when you meet someone and they have this effortless style that you just can’t get enough of? Well, that’s how I feel about this month’s Chi City’s Most Stylish — Chelsea McGrath.

Yes, such a thing exists. Can you believe it? AND it’s not ironic that it’s called the Jena blazer…it is indeed named after me. Hashtag humble brag.

One of the most difficult things about this Ford editorial was figuring out what models to choose. It’s like picking a Chanel bag…they’re all beautiful so you really can’t go wrong, but you can’t have them all. But when it came to Skye, she was the first comp card I looked at and I knew right away she had to be included in this photoshoot.

Late last year I was approached by Ford Models to artistic direct a photoshoot, which is something I’ve always thought of doing but never had the opportunity to execute. So, basically it was kind of a big deal for me. After a few months of finalizing models, getting the perfect looks together and choosing who I’d like to work with…it’s all finally here. I really wanted this shoot to be about the models. They’re always trying to sell something, but for this purpose I wanted to see them in a setting they feel comfortable in, in clothes they love. We chose settings based off of the girl’s interests plus everything is local. I wanted the boutiques and locations involved to all be independent and/or Chicago-based. So this really IS a Chicago fashion shoot…and isn’t that what ChiCityFashion is all about?
These 5 girls are Ford’s “it” models for 2013. You heard it here first. This isn’t the last you’ll be seeing of them.
Left to right: Skye, Noel, Asia, Emilie, Dominique
Tuesday night I went to the So Yeah Duh gif party hosted by Lisa Frame. To make is a true gif party (do those even exist?), Monica from The MidWasteland was snapping photos to make into gifs (still haven’t seen them…pretty excited about it though).
