Photography by Setareh Sarmadi
I’ve been a fan of Fruits & Passion ever since my nose grazed the brand’s bubble bath when I was ten. However, when I saw this Purifying Waterless Hand Soap ($7, fruits-passion.com) images of soapy dry hands crept into my mind as I mentally processed the word combination of “waterless” and “hand soap.” Still, the tube promised an orange-canatloup scent, so I was eager to try it. Read the rest of this entry »
Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless
When Stuart Murdoch, the sad singing Scotsman best known for fronting Belle and Sebastian, met his wife, he left her Breathless.
Says the New York Times Magazine: “As a courtship present, Murdoch made her a replica of the New York Herald Tribune T-shirt Seberg wore in the opening shot of Breathless.”
Cute, right? But then: “‘I may have also done that for an earlier girlfriend,’ Murdoch admitted sheepishly.”
Ah yes. How appropriate. Like Murdoch’s women, all fashionable lovers of French New Wave know the delight of discovering a genre made exactly, exquisitely, for them—the super-chic haircuts, the striped shirts and plaid minis, the smoky-eyed (and forever smoking) gamines—only to realize they’re just the latest suckers for the lovely clichés of Parisian art-house cinema.
But don’t let that stop you from falling: this summer, the Cinematheque at the AGO is screening gorgeous pics by Godard and his precocious coterie of peers. Read the rest of this entry »
In my mind, I’m a dancer: My lithe, lean body leaping, pirouetting and chasséing to and from the office, the grocery store, Sunday brunch…
In reality, I’m a beauty director: Sitting on my ass 24/7 be it on a Euro-bound plane or in front of a computer screen. But I covet the art of dance the same way an eight-year-old girl craves cupcakes covered in sprinkles. To be able to make my body⎯the one that trips when walking in flip flops and routinely bangs into my desk, the wall and occasionally my colleagues at work⎯swivel, twirl and undulate anytime I want and look amazing doing it? I could swallow it whole.
Well aware of my not-so-secret desire (thanks to incessant chatter about So You Think You Can Dance), health editor Rani Sheen suggested I give the Core Rhythms (corerhythms.com) dance DVDs a try. Add a little Latin-influenced bump and grind to my current finger snapping, left-foot-right-foot-slide repertoire, and tighten my tushy and abs simultaneously? She didn’t have to ask me twice. Read the rest of this entry »
Photograph by Heather Loney
With the temperature on the rise it’s easy to forget the weather that we’ve just endured. Just days ago, my sartorial daydreams were completely focused on all things waterproof–the search for the perfect rubber boots. Read the rest of this entry »
Photography by Amber Gray
It’s Canada’s Next Top Model meets The Amazing Race as the girls travel to New York City to make the go-see rounds.
Big Silver Haired Brother is watching: The creepy Jay Mail says, “I can see you, but can you see me?” Do you think it’s one of the apartment’s many Jay-inspired art pieces. Chills.
Actually: Jay’s at the CN Tower–with a brunette Rebecca Hardy. Nikita doesn’t “do heights well” or elevators. It’s always something. Says Jay, “Kinda looks like the view from my apartment in New York.Would you guys like to see what my apartment view looks like? Well, I mean I could show you a picture or you could just GO TO NEW YORK CITY?” I doubt they’ll actually go to his apartment. Read the rest of this entry »
Lovely in…big, bold colours
Spotted: An entry from Vancouver in our FASHION Lovelies/Holt Renfrew contest.
Wearing: Tracy Feith for Target dress and jacket, vintage cuff and Federica Balducci sandals.
Why: For experimenting with layers of super-saturated hues from head to toe, this FASHION Lovely is a daring darling!
We’ve got another $500 Holt Renfrew gift card to give away, so get those photos in to lovelies@fashionmagazine.com. Click here for full details.
Check out the full look after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
The first winner of our Holt Renfrew giveaway is Be jewelled [see the original entry], who rocked her mom’s necklaces.
We’ve got two more $500 gift cards to give away, so send us your snaps for your chance to win. Go here for full contest details.
Photography by John van der Schilden
In a slightly shocking turn of events, one-time front runner Heather Delaney was sent home after failing to make an impression at her New York go-sees.
Which part of this experience was the most fun? Which was the most stressful?
The most fun was transforming into a new look each time, from yourself into this crazy, whatever it was. The last shoot in New York was this sort of diva with black hair. That was fun. I might dye my hair black.
The most stressful was judging. You just didn’t know what they were going to say. The first judging ever I actually fell down, I tripped, so that was really horribly embarrassing.
Photography by Tristan Gray
Greetings fellow nerds! I come before you today with tidings of great joy. It is the computer age and as such, we who have long been bullied and mistreated for our shared passions (Star Wars, computers, Magic: The Gathering, etc.) are now ruling the world. Geeky and scarily intelligent men like Steve Jobs are reinventing the wheel, skinny, awkward musicians like Joel Plaskett are making clever music, and some of the world’s greatest fashion designers wear their nerd status proudly (see Yuko Yoshitake, Diana Eng, and Raf Simons). Read the rest of this entry »
I am feeling a little faint, my heart is pounding inside my chest, my hands have started to tremble and I am using every ounce of will power I have to prevent myself from jumping up and down and screaming. No, I have not just won the lottery, it’s something even better: I just finished a phone call with Claire Salaysay, Southgate Centre’s (780-435-3721, southgate.shopping.ca) marketing director, where she rhymed off the shops that will be part of Southgate’s 155,000-square foot expansion. Read the rest of this entry »
