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07/31/12
For people who love shopping on a budget, there are two important areas to master: vintage and online. The savviest shoppers know exactly which vintage stores will carry the best of which era and which designer, and also know which websites carry hard-to-find collaborations and indie collections. Now, Soop Soop, a new Toronto-based online store, does the work for the rest of us by bringing the best vintage finds to the Internet.
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07/31/12
Every week, we round up the best events from the city’s fashion scene. In this edition: summer clearance sales, sweet treats and fashion join forces, karaoke for a cause and an awesome group art show.
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07/30/12
Fitzroy Boutique, with its lion's share of exclusive, hard-to-find international labels, has been beloved by savvy fashionistas since it first launched as a pop-up back in the fall of 2011. But even with its recent move to a permanent location (nestled at the back of the eclectic BYOB Cocktail Emporium), Fitzroy Boutique remains something of a hidden gem, reserved for those in the know or for lucky window-shoppers who happen to stumble upon its treasures.
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07/30/12
Riverside Fabulous Finds is the east end’s answer to an indoor flea market. Tucked away inside a former funeral home, various independent vendors hawk vintage and pre-owned goods in addition to contemporary clothes and antique furniture.
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07/27/12
If you ride a bike and live in the city, chances are you’re familiar with having your lights stolen. And after one too many dark rides home, avid Toronto bikers Steve Tam and Taylor Martin decided to do something about it. With their new company, Beacon, the two have come up with a light that “lives on your bike,” circumventing the need for that annoying detach and re-attach dance that sandwiches every nighttime commute.
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07/26/12
It’s halfway through summer, meaning pre-fall collections have begun to trickle into stores to make way for — gasp — real fall clothing. But before the leaves change colour, the season of the summer music festival arrives. With monster fests Osheaga and Lollapalooza on the horizon, what matters most is making sure your wardrobe is equipped with rock ‘n’ roll essentials.
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07/25/12
We’ve all heard of the locavore food movement, and Frugal Fashion Week is Toronto’s fashion equivalent, billing itself as “a charitable, community-based initiative created to support Canada's retail/design communities.” This year’s festivities are centered on boutiques in Summerhill and Rosedale — marking the organization’s fourth successful year.
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07/23/12
Italian-based womenswear chain Brandy Melville, beloved by crop-top sporting urbanites and boho-chic hipsters from Europe to the U.S, is finally bringing its line of highly-styled, affordable womenswear to Toronto.
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07/20/12
Seems like the rumours were true: Toronto’s getting a Fashion’s Night Out. The haute international shopping event, which started back in 2009 in New York, will happen here Sept. 6, Toronto Life reports.
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07/20/12
This novelty gadget is likely to cause some confusion, because it really, really, really looks like you could plug your Fender guitar into it. But you can’t. That’s because it’s a bar fridge that happens to look exactly like a Marshall stack amplifier.
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07/19/12
Next week The Junction’s Narwhal Art Projects will be taken over by a pop-up shop. Local line Crywolf is setting up camp in the artsy space for its first foray into a bricks and mortar location, hawking printed tees, jewellery, bags and much more.
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07/17/12
After a series of seasonal pop-ups around town, Bridge + Bardot opted to pop-up for good at Dundas and Ossington. The work of Rose Broadbent and sisters Gurjeet and Gagan Bassi, the strip’s latest haunt offers up more of what the ’hood does best: vintage and pre-owned threads. Joined by goods from local labels such as Muttonhead, Ka’Kia and Cuchara, the gals have plenty of picks for the urban clotheshorse.
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07/17/12
Every week, we round up the best events from the city’s fashion scene. In this edition: custom jewellery in Kensington Market, cool events at Miracle Thieves, a couple of summer sales and free beer at Philip Sparks.
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07/16/12
Rescue Vintage, the newest boutique to hit the fashion-friendly Ossington strip, combines high-end vintage clothing and jewellery with items from contemporary designers — all of it hand-picked by owner Renee Kaylor.
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07/12/12
Pink Tartan, the high-end Toronto womenswear line founded by Kimberley Newport-Mimran (wife of Joseph Mimran, the brains behind Club Monaco and Joe Fresh), will soon open a brand new location in the upscale suburban retail oasis of Bayview Village.
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07/12/12
Ever since we first saw the movie Clueless, we’ve studied the outfits of Cher Horowitz and wondered how we could emulate each and every one of them. For nearly two decades, we (like most girls who grew up in the ’90s) have wondered: where can we get a dress that looks like underwear too? Do I look like a farmer in these clothes?
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07/11/12
Last night we hit up the opening gala for the 60 Years of Designing the Ballet exhibit. Held at the Design Exchange, attendees were offered an in-depth look at the design work of The National Ballet of Canada, ranging from exquisite Swan Lake tutus to pieces plucked from the set of The Nutcracker. Curated by Caroline O’Brien, the peek into the collection arrived on the dawn of the National Ballet’s 60th birthday.
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07/10/12
Every week, we round up the best events from the city’s fashion scene. In this edition: two sweet summer sales, a barbecue with Uncle Otis and Jonathan + Olivia and the grand opening of Dundas West’s Bridge + Bardot.
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07/06/12
Now that Toronto’s dalliance with summer is getting hot ‘n’ heavy, down time at the park is more alluring than ever. At Trinity Bellwoods, park-goers can duck into Trinity Tuck Shop, the work of Kealan Sullivan and designers Dylan Davies and Ashley Rowe. The retro pop-up houses everything from candy-coloured clothes to jars of, well, candy — with Augie’s Gourmet Ice Pops and gelato from Boreal Gelato Company to boot.
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07/05/12
Toronto might be an unlikely destination for swimwear design (we do only have summer for three very short months), but thanks to a sea of local designers, beachwear that's made in this Canadian city is suddenly stylish and very, very cool for these super hot days (no wonder the bikini is looking better with age). Here are five of our favourite local lines.
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07/05/12
Talking about the “birds and the bees” isn’t normally associated with saving the planet, but this time around it is. Did you know that the value of pollinators — such as bees, butterflies and hummingbirds — to Canadian food crops is around $1.2 billion per year? These are species that help our crops grow, and many of them, especially bees, are diminishing globally at an alarming rate.
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07/04/12
Nestled away in a restored Victorian mansion near Yorkville, The Coveterie is a high-end fashion showroom created by Holt Renfrew buying-team alum and retail goddess Natasha Geddes. A veritable fashionista’s mecca, The Coveterie showcases established designers as well as up-and-coming labels.
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07/03/12
If you’ve been hoping for more shops like the Drake General Store in Toronto, you’re in luck. This Wednesday, the girls behind unisex label Muttonhead (who have also created a name for themselves with some of the best pop-up shops this city has to offer) have pulled together an assortment of Canadian goods in order to set up the Mutts & Co. Variety Store.
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