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FeedThe 29 Best-Dressed Detroiters of 2008
It’s something retailers and the international couture community have known for years: Detroiters know fashion. Photographs by Joe Vaughn
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Carl Sterr
Birmingham, third-generation fashion retailer
Sterr is the epitome of elegance and panache. He believes that dressing well displays the readiness of a person’s approach to whatever business or social situation may arise. “It is an opportunity to present your best side,” he says. Sterr’s style of dress is a combination of English and country Italian. He enjoys finding obscure tailors and garment makers in the Italian countryside, and bringing their goods to his Birmingham boutique. Most of the clothes he wears are available at his store, Carl Sterr. During the summer months, he loves white-linen suits; in the winter, his favorite piece is a leather outerwear jacket.
Rhonda Walker
Birmingham, WDIV news anchor
“It makes me feel good to know that I took the time to look good,” Walker says. “I like a complete outfit every time I get dressed.” Walker is most fond of classic pieces that she can wear for years. And although she wears a feminine tailored look during the day, she likes to wear sexy dresses at night, and always aspires to be glamorous. Her favorite designer is Valentino (“head to toe”), and she does the bulk of her shopping at Neiman Marcus. Her fashion icons are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Princess Diana, and Jennifer Lopez. Her passion? Footwear. “I’m always buying shoes. I have hundreds of them,” she says. “But everything I wear must have some element of glamour.”
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Reader Comments:
When I received my issue and looked at this feature, I thought perhaps I had my dates mixed up and this was HOUR for April 1st.
With only a few exceptions, this is an excrutiatingly bad dressed group. The author has mistaken "trendy" for elegant.
HOUR always shows the same people in their issues...we need a little more diversity in the photos. Possibly feature people that don't know employees of HOUR enough to get into the magazine.
Do you really think it is appropriate to dedicate an issue to millionaires and how they dress? Since Michigan has one of the worst economies in the nation, was this worth the time and space you allocated to it? I also found it disgusting that one of the woman, who apparently had no profession, was wearing an animal skin/fur. Perhaps you should perform a public service and do a story on how 50 million animals a year are killed, many skinned alive (a practice common in China) so that some Detroit "socialite" can show how well she's dressed. Personally, when I see someone adorning themselves with animal fur, it looks like something out of prehistoric times. Oh, if only we could evolve a little quicker!