The Toronto International Film Festival blows in and out of my life each year like a hyper-active cyclops with a giant propeller pack on its back, knocking its way through 10 days without regard for basic needs such as sleep or diet. Its giant monster eye has only one point of focus: a long red carpet.
Philip Sparks — local fashion designer, modern dandy and other half of NOW Magazine’s Andrew Sardone — recently launched his very first trunk show at Smash in the Junction this week. Going strong since Wednesday (“we’ve been quite busy,” notes a sales associate), the carefully curated show will continue until Sept. 25, after which it will move to an as-of-yet undisclosed location.
Every week, we gather our favourite tweets from in and around Toronto’s fashion scene. This week we’ve got VIP party invites from The Bay, top picks from the Philip Sparks Trunk Show and reading suggestions from Canadian Living’s Karen Kwinter.
Now that the TIFF madness is over, we’re left with mixed emotions. We feel happy when we think back to all the great movies we saw, all the celebrities we spotted and all the parties we attended. But we also feel sad when left so exhausted and jet-lagged that we’d prefer not to get out of bed for the next two weeks in order to recover.
Touted as Canada’s biggest vintage and brand-spankin’-new indie designer show, The Clothing Show has over 300 booths brimming with local goods. While most of the vendors are focused on swathing your bod in clothing — both vintage and non — there are plenty of accessories, tasty treats and even fetish wear up for grabs. We’ve gone through the list of vendors to find our favourites. Here’s what we hope they’ll bring out this weekend.
Following months of anticipation from Canada-wide leather aficionados, the luxe OBJECT for Danier collection by stylist extraordinaire George Antonopoulos has just hit select Danier stores. The second in a series of Danier collaborations this season — Greta Constantine’s tightly edited Skin collection being the first — was unveiled last week at a Yorkdale trunk show, bringing bigwigs like FASHION and Zoomer editors Bernadette Morra and Suzanne Boyd all the way up-up-uptown.
Every week, we gather our favourite tweets from in and around Toronto’s fashion scene. This week, we’ve got you Friday night plans, a new job opportunity and fashion week updates from Lavish & Squalor, Flare, Topshop and SHOWstudio.
In the world of fashion, the leopard print is considered to be practically neutral. It is as essential to the wardrobe as a basic white T-shirt or a good pair of jeans — adding a hint of wild spots to a simple outfit can take it to a whole new level of fierce.
We’ve always found the concept of the celebrity gifting suite inherently unfair — after all, these well paid (some might argue overpaid) individuals are the ones who can actually afford to buy up heaps of swag without a second thought, right?
Tommy Hilfiger will be in town tomorrow to promote his eponymous brand, which recently opened 66 shops-within-shops inside various The Bay stores. No, this isn’t 1995; Hilfiger is still cool, apparently. So cool, in fact, that he’ll be doling out his John Hancock to fans from 6-8 p.m. at The Bay on Queen Street tomorrow. Not impressed? Here are five reasons why you want Hilfiger’s totally awesome autograph.
Local jewelry junkies looking for the next adorable-yet-affordable set of baubles need look no further than Alibi, the New York City jewelry line that recently partnered with its first-ever international distributor last week, Toronto’s own adorable-yet-affordable boutique, Magic Pony.
Every week, we gather our favourite tweets from in and around Toronto’s fashion scene. This week, we’ve got TIFF fashion tips, hot gossip and party invites from Intermix, Dan Levy, Filler Magazine and more.
