Fashion and Shopping - Toronto, Ontario

February 6, 2012

February 6, 2012

Toronto’s best vintage clothing stores: part one

The Internet has been all abuzz with Toronto’s vintage scene as of late. Fashion folks from abroad have been stopping by and gushing over our boutiques, allowing the world at large to finally sit up and take note (though fashion insiders were already in the know). With new vintage shops popping up regularly, we decided to round up the city’s most notable vintage emporiums.

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February 3, 2012

Fashion, art and film unite at Afrotropolis Wanderland

If your weekend plans are looking a bit drab, don’t fret. There’s still time to grab a ticket for tomorrow night’s Afrotropolis Wanderland at 99 Sudbury Gallery, an event that aims to stimulate your cultural senses through fashion, film and art, all in celebration of Black History Month.

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February 2, 2012

Grab of the Week: a leather heart-shaped zip pouch

When hearts begin to appear all around in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, you can find them in almost any form: usually paper, chocolate, hard candy or plastic. But it’s not often that you come across individual hearts made from leather. It was love at first sight when our eyes met these leather heart-shaped keychain pouches from Roots.

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January 30, 2012

Toronto Fashion Week gets a brand new name (one that still sucks)

Last week, a smattering of Hogtown’s most fashionable trotted out to overhear the Fashion Design Council of Canada’s latest announcement: fashion week has a brand spankin’ new moniker. While the city’s biggest fashion event is unsurprisingly known as Toronto Fashion Week, it has now been re-branded to World Mastercard Fashion Week, or, ahem, FSHN WK, to use the logo’s spelling.

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January 27, 2012

Nine highlights from Interior Design Show 2012

We had a chance to check out the Interior Design Show and were overwhelmed by the creativity and innovation we encountered. Housed in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the mammoth space was host to seemingly endless presentations, ranging from Contact Voyaging Co. canoe paddles to Tahir Mahmood’s candle holder/dinner bell to complete installations from Miehe.

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January 26, 2012

Grab of the Week: a delectable tote bag from local designer Avril Loreti

The donut: once a beloved friend during childhood, it is now considered to be the arch nemesis of an adult diet. That’s not to say that we don’t look back on those days together fondly. We decided to rekindle the relationship when we came across this delectable tote bag by local designer Avril Loreti.

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January 25, 2012

Vinyl + vintage fashion = Of a Kind, a new shop on College

“We’re aiming for the world’s biggest Hall & Oates collection,” Kyle Turner says as he points to a shelf with vinyl reserved solely for the duo. “Though we do have a ways to go.” Turner — along with girlfriend Storm Luu, old pal Rob Moseley and Tamara Salpeter rounding out the bunch — owns Of A Kind, a shiny new store on College Street hawking both vintage fashion and vinyl.

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January 25, 2012

Save money (and the environment) at this week’s Preloved sample sale

Sustainability and sale: two words we love to hear when it comes to fashion. Preloved, Queen West’s staple of redesigned vintage, has filled its shop floor with one of a kind samples and warehouse stock to be sold from today until Saturday.

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January 23, 2012

Meet four innovative exhibitors from this week’s Interior Design Show

This week’s Interior Design Show is bound to rouse every design lover out of their January slumps. The largest contemporary design fair in Canada, this year’s show is drawing the likes of design greats Piero Lissoni and the inimitable Karim Rashid (who also happens to be DJing at the opening night party). We chatted with four innovative young exhibitors who have produced some exciting work of late.

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January 19, 2012

Grab of the Week: an embroidered bikini by Mara Hoffman (perfect for that cheap January vacation)

Lately, everyone we come across either has a tan or is going to get one. We aren’t referring to the sort acquired from tanning beds or lotions either — we mean those only achieved over an exotic holiday in the dead of winter. It just so happens to be one of the cheapest months in the year to travel, so with all that extra cash saved, you might as well splurge on a new designer bikini, right?

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William Thorsell’s T.O. is sleek, sensual and just a little bit naughty

Fifty years ago this August, an eager Albertan moved to T.O., destined to revolutionize two of its iconic institutions. We asked this former Globe & Mail editor-in-chief and ROM CEO how he would spend his final night in the city?

For Seán Cullen, T.O. means hooch, heights and hockey

Comedian Seán Cullen explains what he would do if he could take in the town one final time.

Pumped up kicks

Jeanne Beker struts her stuff in the city’s sharpest sky-high stilettos

Spandex ballet

To help you fulfill all those New Year’s resolutions, Jeanne Beker suits up in the GTA’s top Lycra and luon and offers her picks for looking chic while you sweat.