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This high-end designer is taking the catwalk by storm next month at the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago from 5:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. The night will kick-off with dinner and drinks and move into the fabulous runway show featuring the Fall/Winter 2011 collection.

You know the saying the best things come in small packages? In this case, we mean food too. Here are some great spots to fulfill that naughty craving with a bite of goodness minus the overindulging food coma.

RJ and Jerrod Melman are paving their own restaurant legacy in the Chi. The brothers are the sons of Richard Melman, Founder and Chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, a Chicago-based corporation that owns over 80 well-known restaurants nationwide. The young entrepreneurs are on their third project with Paris Club. After the wildly successful collaborations of HUB51/SUB51 and LGO in Santa Monica, both have made significant strides from their days of busing tables in dad’s restaurants.

The Chicago Fashion Foundation is celebrating their fourth annual CFF Scholarship Event hosted by Peach Carr from "Project Runway" on Thursday, March 3, 2011. This fabulous evening will take place at the Chicago History Museum and will aid in raising money for scholarships for local Chicago fashion design students. The CFF is a group of working professionals and students that focus on supporting Chicago’s fashion community. This amazing foundation is made up of men and women who are a part of various areas of the fashion realm. From fashion writers , editors, designers, manufacturers, and so many more!

The Lobby Lounge concept comes from the mind of celebrated restaurateur, Jerry Kleiner, whose venues 33 Club, Carnivale, Marché, Red Light, Opera and Gioco are among the most popular and original nightspots in Chicago. Custom designed furniture, bar, and lighting create a warm, lavish but edgy atmosphere that captures the glamour of Hollywood where guests will enjoy amazing views of the Chicago skyline. Guests 21 years and older may enjoy cocktails, wine, or beer with savory food made from fresh ingredients in the lounge or VIP Premium seating areas.

Gastropubs are a rather new genre of restaurant classification combining a depth and quality of beer list with upscale pub food to reach a happy blend of upscale, casual, contemporary dining. Let’s just say this isn’t your grandpa’s dive bar.

Propelled by an intense love of all things beautiful, Carolyn Brundage built a Chicago-based online beauty mecca. Its purpose? Serve as a destination for savvy spa and salon goers as well as a regional directory of indulgence. All while offering up beauty bargains on everything from massages to manicures, from Restylane to Reiki.

Ing. It’s everyone’s favorite suffix literally meaning progressive or continuous and the concept behind Chef Homaro Cantu’s newest endeavor. Cantu is an internationally recognized chef and leader in the field of postmodern cuisine and an inventor of futuristic food delivery systems. Called the Willy Wonka Chef, Moto has been serving edible menus for years and is now in the process of developing a Miracle Berry that neutralizes your taste buds to manipulate the taste of known flavors, like straw and cactus to give them delicious flavors. The goal of this odd science project: to end world hunger by providing these berries to third world countries.

On Feb. 24 the sassiest moms in the city of Chicago will head out for their very own and well deserved, Girls Night Out! Held at Alhambra Palace Restaurant starting at 7 p.m., it will be Sponsored by WBBM Newsradio 780 and 104.3 JACK FM and is all to benefit the American Heart Association. In honor of the festivities, guests are encouraged to sport the color red to go along with the theme.

Two years in the making, Hubbard Inn is the newest spot to debut on red-hot Hubbard Street. The inspiration? Ernest Hemingway, the great American literary mind from Oak Park, IL.

Art- or the expression of human emotion on canvas- is a major part of haute culture. Examining and interpreting a prolific work takes psychology and philosophy, a sensory experience of intellect and feelings. Here are a few of the best spots to ponder the bigger picture.

Sequin New York is the designer of feminine, bold costume jewelry often seen on the fashionable cast of Gossip Girl. Their first freestanding boutique, the Chicago location will debut their Spring 2011 “Anita” collection this month inspired by the re-release of the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main St. Images of Keith Richards’ girlfriend Anita Pallenberg strolling in the South of France in the 60’s was the muse for the luxe, sophisticated designs. For the free spirit, the collection is bohemian beachy meets rock and roll based on neutral colors, layered pieces, and organic shapes made out of crystal, wood, and crocheted fabric.