World Fashion Chicago - September 30th, 2009

Clothes' cultural messages: The World Fashion Chicago runway show breaks away from Chicago's fashion week this year to stand on its own sovereign feet. Always a riveting display of fashion as a cultural statement, the show Wednesday features more than 35 designers with ties to Chicago's 28 Sister Cities around the globe -- not just Paris and Milan but also Accra, Ghana; Amman, Jordan; Petach Tikva, Israel; Vilnius, Lithuania; Shenyang, China; and more.