It’s hip in the square
Style in Boston? You’d better believe it, says Kristen Uekermann. It was 2011, the year that GQ magazine dubbed Boston the least fashionable U.S. city, when Uekermann debuted The Boston Fashionista, a blog chronicling her personal style as well as the city’s fashionable goings-on. “Whoever says the Boston area has terrible style has never strolled through Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon,” she said. “You can see a whole range of style, from rockers to vintage, high-fashion to library-chic. When I think of typical Boston style, I think ‘next-generation Brahmin.’ Bostonians nod to classic styles and cuts, but they make those pieces more modern by wearing them in interesting colors and fabrics.” Uekermann, who was recently named assistant director for faculty and academic affairs in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology after serving for 2½ years as a department administrator at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is one of a pack...