Steve & Andi Rosenstein didn't set out to build an empire. They set out to build a life — and somehow, the empire followed.

Andi was born on Chicago's north side in 1961, a girl who grew up in the glow of neon signs and the smoke of late-night stages. Her father fronted Bill Skully & The Dynatones, and Andi spent her childhood in the joints where her dad's band played into the wee hours — including one of Chicago's most legendary rooms, The Black Orchid on Rush Street. It was there that Harry Belafonte, Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole, and Ray Charles crept into her soul and never quite left.

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Steve entered the picture in 1986, working as a surfwear rep out of Chicago's Apparel Center. Andi walked in with a résumé. He never really let her leave. Together, in 1988, they built Fitigues Clothing Company from scratch — Andi designing every single garment for nearly two decades, her eye for detail and instinct for style eventually catching the attention of a Fortune 500 retailer, who acquired the brand in 2006.

Then came Phoenix. In 2007, the couple stumbled upon a crumbling 1920s warehouse in what would become downtown's Warehouse District — once a thriving produce hub by day, and something far less respectable by night. The notorious neighborhood known as "the deuce" had seen speakeasies, dice games, and vice in every shadow. Steve and Andi saw something else entirely: possibility.

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In that same year, they tracked down The Black Orchid's original bar — the very bar that once served legends — and brought it home. It now anchors The Black Orchid Room at The Duce, where local and national artists perform for crowds of 50 to 2,000.

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When The Duce opened its doors in 2010, it was 15,000 square feet of something Phoenix had never quite seen before: a place where pretty meets gritty, and produce meets prohibition. Live music is the soul of The Duce, but Andi's fingerprints are on everything else — every recipe, every organic cocktail, every inch of décor. The same meticulous creative vision that shaped Fitigues shapes every experience here.

Two brands. One story. A couple from Chicago who never stopped building things worth loving.

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The Duce. Where it all comes together.