Meet Jennifer Wang, our featured SHOPAKIRA Blogger! She was inspired after watching The Avengers, to style our Laced Back Dress for an Iron Man look.
Whether it’s flowers, watercolor abstract patterns, oversize prints, stars or snakeskin—print will create quite a moment this spring in your closet. Pair our Roxanne Spiked Jacket with our delicate Sleeveless Open Waist Print Romper along with stacks of our Spike Stretch Bracelets for a bold look! And for your everyday ensembles, try our Varsity Letterman Jacket along with the a print mini for a sassy relaxed look!
Isn’t she lovely! Meet Amber Saylor from Cannibal’s Find wearing our AKIRA Faux Fur Detachable Collar.
Vintage Virgin Spotted wearing our Brown Faux Fur Collar in Leopard!
Meet Luanna! One our featured Bloggers on FashionSalade.com.
Spotted wearing our AKIRA Brown Pony Collar & Jeffrey Campbell Coltrane.
AKIRA’s blowout Garden of Eden fall fashion show received some love in CS Magazine this December. Runway & crowd snaps from the 4,500-person affair took up two pages in the society publication. If you missed the annual event this year, mark your calendar for September 16/September 23, 2012–we’ve already blocked off these two days for the 9th annual runway extravaganza. (How’s that for advance planning?)

Just in time for AKIRA’s arrival in the Naperville area–we opened a Women’s store at the Fox Valley mall in November–the suburb’s namesake magazine spotlighted two of our pieces in a four-page fall editorial. Our high-waist pleather shorts & hand-beaded clutch added some edge to the model’s elegant ensembles.
Because of his myriad charitable endeavors as AKIRA’s owner & director of marketing, Jon Cotay landed on the pages of Michigan Avenue Magazine‘s November 2011 issue. The issue featured a photoshoot & interview with Jon and eight other Chicago-based, fashion-focused philanthropists. To further fête the honorees, Michigan Avenue hosted a private party at Water Tower Place on November 9. Two FORD Models injected just the right dose of glamour into this high-style event.
In December, AKIRA’s three co-owners were elected to Crain’s Chicago Business’ “40 Under 40″ Class of 2011. This honor put them in the company of such local entrepreneurs as the Melman brothers & Sam Hagan (the founder of OKCupid).

