With North by Northeast having kicked off this week, and the BlackCreek Festival and TD Jazz Festival on its heels — not to mention the epic outdoor concert that is the MuchMusic Video Awards happening on Sunday — music festival season is upon us, and we want to make sure you’re fully equipped to enjoy your favourite music in style. With this week’s sales round-up, you’ll be sure to nail that “I’m with the band” look effortlessly.
Last night, Vogue‘s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was on hand to pick up the People’s Voice award for fashion at the Webby Awards, which doles out trophies to the best of the ‘net. Giving the traditional five-word-speech, hers — “Sometimes, geeks can be chic” — shaped up to be the one of the most popular quotes of the night, which got us thinking about Toronto’s own chic geeks. Below, our five favourites.
Dads are great. They’ve shown you how to drive standard, how to fix a flat tire, how to tell the difference between a wrist shot and a snapshot and how to hang up that picture frame the right way. Despite all their top qualities, dads can be impossible to shop for. With Father’s Day coming up next weekend, we’ve made it easier on you with this week’s sales round-up.
For those fashion mavens awaiting news about The Bay’s Topshop and Topman stores, today is a good day. The Bay just announced that the Yorkdale Mall store will house its first locations of the trendy British retailer. Though the store-within-a-store concept won’t open until September, those who crave the chic U.K. designs won’t have to wait long: a series of pop-up shops are scheduled for this summer.
It seems like every week there’s a new American retailer that wants to claim a piece of Canada’s fashion turf. Following on the heels of J. Crew, Marshalls and Intermix, Target just recently announced its Toronto locations. Now the newest kid on the block is American clothing chain Express, which is set to open five new stores across Canada this year, Flare reports, with the first Toronto store opening in September at Fairview Mall.
‘Look but don’t touch’ could be the motto for Yorkville’s newly-opened fashion showroom, The Coveterie. Launched by fashion grad and former Holt Renfrew buyer Natasha Geddes, the exquisitely chic boutique is solely used to showcase — not sell — the latest in fashion trends for buyers and media in Toronto. We caught up with Geddes to discuss the next big thing in fashion, her favourite labels and what, exactly, a showroom is anyway.
It’s pretty safe to say that summer — the season of patio dining, barbecues, beaches, outdoor concerts and weddings — has finally arrived. With this new wardrobe change, even the most fashionable can get lost in the season’s various trends that range from chic nautical to exotic tribal to sassy bright colours. In this week’s sales round-up, we break down essential — and affordable — items for your summer wardrobe.
It was only earlier this week when we reported that The Bay was stepping up to Holt Renfrew in the battle to become Toronto’s top department store. Now it seems that Holt’s has seen The Bay’s bid and raised it: the retailer announced a major expansion to its Yorkdale location today.
Our days of watching Degrassi pretty much ended when Wheels and Spike and the gang graduated back in the early 90s. But in light of CAFTCAD’s annual Movie Wardrobe Sale tomorrow — where clothes from the current Degrassi will be sold, along with samples and accessories from other local film productions — we got wondering about how cool it would be to dress like our favourite characters from the hit show (answer: extremely cool). Here’s how to do it:
Fashion is such a fickle mistress, and to play to her whims, exclusivity is key. And what could be more exclusive than a pop-up boutique of a cult favourite online shop? White Crow has landed in the Borroughes Building at Queen and Bathurst until the end of the summer.
The web was all a-twitter yesterday with news of a special announcement from Mercedes-Benz and IMG, a fashion and media company. Fashionistas who had been holding their breath in anticipation of a possible Toronto-based Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week might be disappointed to hear that such is not the case, but fear not, the actual news is almost as good.
Summer has arrived, and with the shortened seasonal hours and warm weather comes the conspicuous reluctance of friends to commit to weekend plans. The reason: cottage season. Even for those without a cottage of their own to escape to, the hope of winning an invitation to a weekend luxuriating on a dock in cottage country is enough for them to politely decline your invite to a Saturday afternoon backyard barbecue.
