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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

DARK SECRETS: Finding the fun in functional - The Real Truth

Ben Graham, vice president of marketing at Joe & Bella, a Chicago company creating and selling adaptive clothing, looks at the removable sleeve on a jacket designed by a team of Columbia College fashion students, including Adam Salame (right foreground). (Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times)

Fashion is cool and fun, daring and young.

You can see that just walking into Reyes Witt’s classroom at Columbia College Chicago and noticing what her students are wearing. The sleeveless cowl T-shirt on Adam Salame, 20. The off-the-shoulder black batwing blouse on Paige Bernby, 20. The black slip worn as a dress over a turtleneck on Sandra Walkowicz, 21. Not to overlook Madison Chain’s hot pink beret worn with a sequined minidress and white knee-high boots.

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