Galavanting 2

It’s party frock season. Thought you might need some inspiration for your New Year’s Eve attire tomorrow night. We can’t all afford these gorge gowns but they will give you some ideas about shapes, proportions and colour. Let’s continue galavanting, shall we? Adding some frou always works – whether it’s in the form of bows, [...]

Winter Luxessity

I know technically it’s not the Arctic tundra. I know there are no yaks running around. But Toronto was cccccold today. So I found myself dreaming of winter luxessities from Hermès. Just looking at these images makes me feel warm and cozy. Images courtesy of fashiontography and luxuo.

Déjà Vu: Toronto & Vegas Get Crystallized

Toronto pulled off a coup in recent years by getting a few Starchitects to add to the local landcape. Frank Gehry’s stunning makeover of the AGO swirled into our hearts, Jack Diamond’s rethink of the home of the Canadian Opera Company was so popular, they asked him to build another opera house in Russia and [...]

Daphne Guinness – Mega Muse

We knew Daphne G. was a busy gal. We just didn’t know exactly how busy until this Fall. When she’s not creating perfume/inspiring art, hawking ubercars and diving in diamonds, she is flogging fashion. Ms. Guinness is the new face of  the Spring 2010 Akris campaign. The blonde skunk hair is definitely gone (for now [...]

Have a little fun with your fashion…

Sometimes we can all take life – and ourselves – a little seriously. I don’t know about you, but I need a little fun. Why not start with your fashion? After all, half of it is dressing the part, i’nnit? My quest for frivolity led me to these gorgeous pieces from Libertine – the label [...]

Christmas Traditions, Rocked

I’m not usually a sucker for Christmas music but I caught a re-run of The Hour’s holiday special (from Dec 21st) last night , which offered a twist on tradition. I loved that George dressed up for the occasion – fancy shoes and a jacket, no less – and not of the motorcycle variety. Also [...]

It’s Christmas Eve…

…spread a little style wherever you go… Winter Berry fashion illustration by Lauren Bishop, originally created for Jackpot magazine.

Sex and the City 2 Teaser Released

Yes, I still get pulled into this. Watched every episode on pirate satellite HBO way before it came to Canada. Used to wait for my Canadian friends to catch up to it on Bravo months later to discuss the fash. Call it the nostalgia factor…here’s the teaser trailer.

Designed to Drink

If you’re heading out to a holiday party and the hostess happens to be a fashionista or design buff… …the Paul Smith limited edition Evian bottle is dressed to impress. Not that I’m condoning not bringing your hostess champagne – the other French beverage of choice.

Inspiration: Auntie Mame

Inspiration is like rainfall. One drop lands on your head…another on your nose…and another on your tongue. Drip, drip, drop… Little droplets of random thoughts, reckless musings, a tweet here, a conversation there and then it all flows, showering over you. Yesterday, I had a déjà vu inspired by a vintage photograph. It was of [...]

Déjà Vu: Checked and Re-checked

It’s been a while since I had a déjà vu. I was looking through one of my fave blogs and came across this stunning image from Life magazine, from a feature entitled Extreme Fashion originally published in 1949. Doesn’t it remind you of a more recent, extreme collection? McQueen’s houndstooth suit has a more fitted [...]

Steichen Snapped More Than Stars

Edward Steichen wasn’t as black and white as one would think. He just took those kinds of photographs. Well, that was the medium, anyway – black and white photography – but his subjects, the artist and his inspiration were dense layers of greys. I’ve been meaning to write about him for ages, having attended a [...]

Mod girls need a new place to shop

Ben Sherman, the Carnaby street retailer synonymous with mod fashion for the past 50 years,  is getting out of the women’s wear game. After a tough year, the retailer plans to focus on its bread and buttah: menswear. Shame for mod girls the world over. Image courtesy of bensherman.com.

Margiela is Really Gone, Daddy, Gone

WWD confirmed Dec 9th what we told you last month: Martin Margiela has left the building. And he isn’t being replaced by Raf Simons or Haider Ackerman, but rather by the team he worked with - some 25 designers – with no one playing a lead role. “We came to the conclusion that we didn’t want [...]

Daphne Guinness: For Sale

So, as I mentioned earlier this week, Daphne Guinness has been hawking a few products lately. On December 5th, she was dripping in diamonds, celebrating her collaboration with David LaChapelle on an ad campaign for Maybach, the ultra luxe cars by Mercedes-Benz, (pronounced mai-bakhh). Here is how the spot was made, with Ms. G in [...]