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Meryl! Rooney! Michelle! We dress our favourite Oscar nominees in the best dresses from the Pre-Fall and Couture collections

By Rani Sheen | January 24th, 2012 | 12:00 pm

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Left: Photography by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images. Right: Photography courtesy of Matthew Williamson

It’s that time again! Oscar has spoken, and the nominations are in. Although we would’ve liked to see Tilda Swinton, Elizabeth Olsen, Kirsten Dunst, Shailene Woodley, and Charlize Theron be part of the Best Actress hoopla, it’s probably on Meryl lock anyway. We combed the Pre-Fall collections (with one couture exception) and plucked the gowns we think Oscar’s Best Actress nominees should consider for February 26. Let the countdown begin!

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Cocktail hour: We break down holiday entertaining with 3 runway-inspired party themes

By Rani Sheen | December 12th, 2011 | 10:00 am

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Cocktail hour

Take a thematic cue from the runways to put a little extra fizz in your holiday party à la Gucci’s, Louis Vuitton’s, and Jil Sander’s Fall 2011 collections.

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TFW diary: Flippy skirts, mini ’60s shifts, and Andrej Pejic at Pink Tartan

By Rani Sheen | October 20th, 2011 | 1:00 pm

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Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Kim Newport-Mimran described her spring collection as modern ’60s sportswear, citing her own cropped bob as proof of her current mindset, and a photo of buzzy model-of-the-week Andrej Pejic with a flower in his mouth looking “very modern Bardot” as an early inspiration. Styling help came from New Yorker and former Marie Claire fashion director Lucy Sykes (Plum’s twin).

After a darker, camo-laden detour last season, the brand is back on preppy, work-wearable ground: fitted, drop-waist dresses in white and blue Prada-like stripes are made in “power stretch, a knit that works like a woven and holds everything in”; red and blue cigarette pants in a sheeny silk-wool are sleek but fun. A few very short, flippy skirts and mini ’60s shifts skew younger—or braver—than usual. And though she may have taken a stumble in her Celine two-tone heels when she came out for her bow with Pejic, Newport-Mimran should be on solid selling ground this season.
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TFW diary: Holt Renfrew opens LG fashion week with 56 looks of Canadian-made cool

By Rani Sheen | October 18th, 2011 | 12:00 pm

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Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Holt Renfrew kicked off LG Fashion Week with a noisy, crowded bang last night—editors and buyers (and a one Mr. Jay Manuel) got to know each other really, really well, all squished in together on benches in the tents at David Pecaut Square. As is their wont, Holts sent out micro collections from eight of their Canadian best—for whom the question of whether their collections will actually make it to stores has already been settled. The best bits, in order…
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TFW diary: 3 or more things that Calla Haynes does particularly well

By Rani Sheen | October 14th, 2011 | 2:30 pm

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Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Things that Calla Haynes does well:

1. Prints, not repurposed from a fabric show, but dreamed up and developed herself.
2. Shapes, by turns shrunken and body-skimming (though less so as time goes by), voluminous and seeming to float, or floor-grazing but never heavy.
3. Prettiness, the type that manages to fall just short of saccharine. It doesn’t hurt that Haynes brings a bit of Euro-tinged glamour and refinement back with her as a Canadian expat living and working in Paris.
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A woman of substance: Our exclusive Q&A with Carine Roitfeld

By Rani Sheen | September 29th, 2011 | 12:00 pm

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Photo spreads from Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent. Roitfeld in 2002.

Carine Roitfeld, the world’s most inimitably chic fashion editor, is back. She tells Rani Sheen what’s next for her.

When it was announced in December that Carine Roitfeld had stepped down as editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue, the fashion world erupted in speculation about what she’d do next. The answer, in part, lies in the book Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent ($110, Rizzoli New York), a mid-career retrospective of her most arresting shoots, notes from designers, and personal mementos. It’s a satisfying read because there is such a fascination with Roitfeld, the coolest woman in any front row. We asked her what else she’s been up to.

Film: We line up the 9 most intriguing movies for fall

By Rani Sheen | September 1st, 2011 | 2:00 pm

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Film: We line up the 9 most intriguing movies for fall

Popcorn at the ready, we’re looking forward to a season of intriguing fare.

FALL FILMS

OUR IDIOT BROTHER
Paul Rudd as a cheerful stoner.
A grinning, bearded Paul Rudd—clad in baggy attire and Crocs—sweetly agrees to sell a little non-sanctioned herb to a despondent police officer in uniform while manning a farmer’s market stall. Promptly carted off to jail, he gets out early on good behaviour and returns to the fold of his three successful sisters—Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Elizabeth Banks—where family life proves to be entertainingly discordant.

Editor obsessed: Dermalogica’s Powerfoliant clears skin of essentially everything!

By Rani Sheen | June 16th, 2011 | 3:00 pm

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Photography by Amanda Elliott

It’s that time again, when the words “smog,” “heat wave” and “humidity” enter our vernacular, and our poor little pores suffocate under the blanket of sunscreen, street dust and the ever-present perspiration moustache. Don’t you just want to blast it all away at the end of the day? Dermalogica’s Powerfoliant ($85, dermalogica.ca) is satisfyingly merciless, and though it’s part of the Chroma White range (who really wants to whiten?) it’s just a serious exfoliator that combines vitamin C, salicylic acid and fruit acids, plus a bunch of other brightening ingredients. It’s also pleasingly science-y—the box contains two vials of exfoliator, and you have to pop down the cap to release the powder into the liquid, which—SHAZAM!—activates the lot of it until it self-destructs in four weeks. There’s also a dropper attachment so you don’t use too much of the precious (and I do mean precious) stuff. You’ll be rationing it obsessively for fear of running out; I certainly am.
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Scene » Red carpet

Meryl! Rooney! Michelle! We dress our favourite Oscar nominees in the best dresses from the Pre-Fall and Couture collections

Shopping

Cocktail hour: We break down holiday entertaining with 3 runway-inspired party themes

Fashion

TFW diary: Flippy skirts, mini ’60s shifts, and Andrej Pejic at Pink Tartan

Fashion » At the shows

TFW diary: Holt Renfrew opens LG fashion week with 56 looks of Canadian-made cool

Fashion » At the shows

TFW diary: 3 or more things that Calla Haynes does particularly well

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A woman of substance: Our exclusive Q&A with Carine Roitfeld

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Film: We line up the 9 most intriguing movies for fall

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Editor obsessed: Dermalogica’s Powerfoliant clears skin of essentially everything!

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