Chicago Pianist Roberta Brown

Roberta Brown is a bonafide Chicago legend. In one of the coolest and most bizarre experiences to date in my streetstyle career, the famed Marshall Field’s Walnut Room pianist pulled up next to me in a car as I was walking down Rush Street. Roberta was sitting in the passenger seat and leaned forward to compliment me on my Mongolian lambswool fur coat. She had no idea I was a photographer, or even what streetstyle blogging is, but was more than happy to let me photograph her famous hands. Roberta always wears her beloved rings and has her nails painted in fabulous colors. The octogenarian can still be found playing the piano in the Walnut Room at Macy’s on State Street.