When is today's hottest designer more than just a flash in the pan? Clues: When she's built a steady business of curve-conscious and classically glamorous fashions for 16 years--outside of a fashion ...

Maria Pinto (right) stands next to one of her models, who's wearing a prefall halter-neck trapeze dress. Credit: Isa Giallorenzo Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As fashion designer Maria Pinto describes it, she was born in a little Italian village just outside of Chicago's Chinatown. She always knew she wanted to design; it was a natural gift ...

Maria Pinto is back. Better than ever. Best known for dressing some of the world's most famous women including First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, Maria’s new ready-to-wear line, M2057, ...

Maria Pinto: "It's Amazing To Dress A Woman With Integrity And Intellect" I had the pleasure of meeting Maria Pinto this morning to see her fall 2009 collection and get the inside scoop on dressing ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apparel designer Maria Pinto successfully re-launched her career by getting more than a quarter of a million dollars in pledges for a new label through crowd-funding platform ...

What’s a growing trend in fashion? The museum collaboration. After last year’s blockbuster retrospective of designs by the late Alexander McQueen at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, major ...

Love Michelle Obama's purple dress? Now you can own one from Maria Pinto's new shop I'm a sucker for a happy ending, and it looks like designer Maria Pinto is living out her own Cinderella story this ...

Chicago-based designer Maria Pinto made headlines when Michelle Obama sported several of her sheath dresses. Though the Maria Pinto brand Obama wore in 2008 shuttered in 2010, Pinto’s association with ...