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Q&A: 5 minutes with Alisha Schick

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Suka

Photography: left, Suka $90 by Patrick Zubiri, middle, Schick by Ashley Champagne; right, Suka top $105 by Patrick Zubiri.

This year, one of Edmonton’s local treasures celebrates the 10th anniversary of her ready-to-wear label, Suka Clothing (sukaclothing.ca). Alisha Schick is known for balancing feminine silhouettes with edgy geometric details, and her Spring 2012 show at Western Canada Fashion Week included an array of cool cosmic microprints. Here, the designer and fashion design instructor (she teaches at Edmonton’s MC College) talks secret fashion weapons and childhood fads.

What is your secret design weapon?
“My sketchbook is my most important tool. I sketch a full figure for key pieces and looks, and then elaborate. There is always a strong story behind each collection.” Read more »


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Calgary shop notes: Good for your hair, and the Earth

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Photography: left, Acne backstage by Peter Stigter; conditioner by Erin Seaman

Photography: left, Acne backstage by Peter Stigter; conditioner by Erin Seaman

This season, runways from Mary Katrantzou to Chanel were awash in ocean references. Get the beachy waves seen at Acne’s show by using Calgary-based sisters Anita and Nadia Saoud’s hair-care line TAJ10 (from $12, taj10.com), which is free of parabens and petroleum-based ingredients. Good for your hair and the Earth; Ariel would be proud. Read more »


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Calgary shop notes: Looking to make a timeless statement?

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The Oyster Perpetual Datejust

Luxury watches have a haute new home at the Rolex shop-in-shop at Birks in the Core shopping centre (317 7th Ave. SW, Suite 270, Calgary, 403-260-8700, birks.com). This location is one of only three across Canada to have introduced this prestigious Swiss brand. Looking to make a timeless statement? The Oyster Perpetual Datejust in 18-karat Everose gold with diamonds (shown, $13,510) says forever. Read more »


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Our top picks from Western Canada Fashion Week including Stanley Carroll, Angélique Chmielewski, Malorie Urbanovitch and more!

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Photography by Winston Wan

See the looks from Western Canada Fashion Week»

Running seasonally for eight straight nights since its inception in 2005, Western Canada Fashion Week (WCFW) offers a platform for both emerging and veteran designers alike to showcase their work in a province that is relatively new to the fashion scene. Alongside expert-affirmation from the Mercedes-Benz Start Up judges last week, we can certainly say that there is some sparkle out west.

From Edmonton darling Nicole Campre, this season’s WCFW Emerging Designer contest winner, to long-time mens and womenswear designer Stanley Carroll, WCFW is nurturing some exciting talent each season at the TransAlta Arts Barns—and here are a few to check out:

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Mercedes-Benz Start Up hits Edmonton and crowns Malorie Urbanovitch its semi-final winner

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Photography by Harvey Miedreich

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Edmonton had never seen anything like it before. Over the course of two short days, fashion industry experts from New York and Toronto bulldozed into a city of over a million people and changed its fashion beat.

The Mercedes-Benz Start Up program, now in its second year, has again begun its search for the next big Canadian designer, and last night, asked five of the top designers (after a grueling day of interviews with the top 10), to show their collections at the semi-final runway show at David Morris Fine Cars, an Edmonton Mercedes-Benz dealership.
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From knitting needles to cocktail dresses, we take you inside Refinery, Edmonton’s late-night art party!

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Photography by Harvey Miedreich

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We know you’ve been anxiously awaiting the next cycle of Refinery, the late-night art party held under the stars at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta, ever since we covered this Movember night out, and we’re excited to deliver! Read more »


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Inside Western Canada Fashion Week’s kick off party: theatrical dresses, stylish bloggers and more!

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Photography by Harvey Miedreich

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Western Canada Fashion Week kicked off its seventh year and 14th season last Friday night at Phabrik art + design, a warehouse-style studio space in south central Edmonton run by WCFW’s executive and creative director, Sandra Sing Fernandes. The venue was the original hosting grounds for Edmonton Fashion Week way back when in 2005. Read more »


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Far from frump or farmer: Alberta’s top 10 style bloggers

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By now, most of us can recognize the many hours it takes to curate a decent fashion blog, and we’ve spent enough time perusing said blogs to know the value in finding a unique voice amongst the noise. Case in point: despite an overzealous cowboy rep (I’m talking the Calgary Stampede, of course, though there’s nothing wrong with rocking a good pair of cowboy boots), and a smothering from what was, at one point, the biggest shopping mall on the planet (I’m talking West Edmonton Mall, of course, though there’s nothing wrong with being a front-runner for immigrating brands like J.Crew), the prairies churn out some die-hard fashion addicts who are both independent thinkers, and far from frump and farmer. We’ve rounded up the top 10 personal style bloggers from Alberta who aren’t afraid to wear floral print pants, mix and match patterns from head-to-toe or seize outdoor photo-ops in subzero temperatures—bare-legged if they must—just for the frill of it.

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