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.
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.
If you’re not wearing Canadian on Canada Day this long weekend then, well, you get zero points for patriotism. But if your closet is lacking in the department of maple-certified goods, don’t fret, we’ve found the best possible tank top. It’s red, it’s white and it’s got a dizzy-eyed bear (designed by renowned Canadian artist Geoff McFetridge) smack on the front. How fitting for a party weekend up north, eh?
There are certain items in fashion that make you wonder what the designer was thinking. Was the piece literally made with eyes closed shut? Sometimes, you’re not even sure if the item is ugly or genuinely amazing (as much as I love Prada, it definitely springs to mind here).
The ever-expanding granddaddy of shopping centres is at it again. Hot on the heels of its recent Dine on 3 food collection, Yorkdale Shopping Centre plans to add 30 new stores as part of its 145,000 square foot retail expansion, which is set to open November 15.
Rue Pigalle, Isabelle Fish’s high-end jewellery and accessories boutique, recently relocated to the Trinity Bellwoods park area from its previous location at 104 Yorkville Avenue. The store’s hand-picked, lovingly-curated offerings — most of which made their way from across the Atlantic — are now housed in a space that is four times larger than before.
“I’m giving a new story to something that’s been worn before,” says Brittany Hopkins, the young entrepreneur behind Kensington Market’s newly-opened Anice. With the motto “Old treasures, new love,” Hopkins takes forgotten jewellery and reworks it into new pieces that have some history to them.
There’s nothing like some good ol’ shoe candy to drool over just before the weekend hits. These laser-cut, fine leather slingbacks are reminiscent of the popular clog (RIP), but are updated with a stacked wooden heel and quirky details.
Professing my love for denim is nothing new to What I Wore. I really do love it, and always have. My jean jackets, for example, are like my best friends: I love them all for different reasons. There is just something so classic and comforting about denim in (almost) every style that it comes in.
Local fashion magazine Plaid has teamed up with Found Riches, a new shopping app, to present West End Riches, a shopping event that will keep participating west-end boutiques open until midnight, and, of course, offering discounts — so long as you snap and upload a picture of your new purchase.
Drawing some 1,700 guests out to the waterfront, the Power Ball is Hogtown’s big-ticket fête of the summer. Held at The Power Plant, this year’s fundraiser served to blow out the candles on the gallery’s 25th birthday cake, with a Quarter-Life Crisis theme inspiring attendees to don either their finest frippery or the wildest getup they could muster up. We checked out the scene, finding plenty of feathers, sequins and, well, orange.
Twin sisters Jen and Sarah Wetmore have banded together to open up a curiosity-filled treasure chest of sorts. Jinks Art Factory, located on Parkdale’s westernmost strip, is a little bit of everything. Up front, it’s a café complete with a vintage arcade game and seats overlooking Queen Street.
