Bay Area Life & Style Magazine | Summer 2021

The other cause Teri is dedicated to ties in her love for
fashion. Tkachuk has been on the board of the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for over a decade,
when she was asked to join as a fashion maven due to
her work as a style editor in a Naperville magazine. The
board supports SAIC students and raises money for
scholarships for them to attend the Fashion Design
program, giving these gifted artists the opportunity to
pursue their exceptional talents. Teri looks forward to
the student fashion show each year, and she loves to
purchase off the runway to directly subsidize the
students’ careers. She has even ordered custom pieces
from the designers, and cherishes her growing couture
closet. Check out the sidebar for more details on her
dreamy closet.
Teri’s goal is to expand her network of STELLARGIRLS
across the globe, and she has the foundation built to
do so. Her brand and website are trademarked and
hosted in over 120 countries, and she has vowed to
only grow her social media organically - no bots, no
paid followers, and no shortcuts. Her biggest request
of readers is to find your way to her website where you
can see her growing page of STELLARGIRLS and
become inspired to submit your own stories or how
your friend is a true STELLARGIRL. By championing
your successes, Teri hopes to connect you to women
across the world to support each other's journeys.
Closet Envy
Loving this peek inside Teri’s lush closet? With the model’s collection of
vintage fashion growing after twenty years of curating, she needed to store
them in a place as luxurious as they. She also felt the custom pieces she has
commissioned from SAIC students deserved to be showcased.
She and her husband Keith decided to extend the master closet into the
home office to create a lavish closet. They designed the room with Rose
Jagodinsky at The Closet Company, whom they say is ‘outstanding’ and whose
work they couldn’t be happier with. The team contracted Wilco Cabinet
Makers to construct their plans and HJ Martin and Son to install the flooring.
The end product is a swoon-worthy room that Teri says is the only one in the
house that she truly has to herself (spoken like a true mom).
With her master closet now her happy place, Tkachuk has a place to display
her wall of designer shoes and accessories, her cherished custom and vintage
wardrobe, and her collection of decades of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue
magazines. Any fashionista could live and die a happy life in this closet.
True to her charitable roots, when rotating clothes out Teri doesn’t resell her
items on consignment or on websites to recoup the cost. Instead she donates
them to the Harbor House, so that the women have access to current fashion
to wear to interviews instead of the outdated or unwanted clothes that are
typically contributed. Inside and out, Teri truly is a style icon for our
community to look up to.