Vanilla Beane has spent the last 40 years working out of her Manor Park shop, Bené Millinery. Creating hats “keeps me going,” she says. “If I stayed home, I would go mad.” With her 100th birthday on the way, here are a few of her head toppers.
This article appears in the September 2019 issue of Washingtonian.
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Jane is a Chicago transplant who now calls Cleveland Park her home. Before joining Washingtonian, she wrote for Smithsonian Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and opera.
