What to wear to a job interview: 9 Style Panel tips for dressing right for every office

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What to wear to a job interview

Job interviews are nerve-racking, to say the least. Aside from prepping answers for a myriad of potential questions, you’re also wondering what to wear to a job interview that will help leave that lasting impression. While the answer may seem clear for typically corporate office jobs, the options become a little more open-ended with creative and freelance occupations.

We may not be able to help you with your interview responses, but we can definitely aid you in the wardrobe department. We want to make sure your outfit is ready for battle, so we asked Style Panel to help inspire us with stylish, yet professional job interview outfit options.

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Prada’s Menswear Fall 2013 ads star buzzy actor trio Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw and Ezra Miller

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Prada Menswear Fall 2013 Ads Christoph Waltz

Photography David Sims for Prada

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Leave it to Prada to always find the cool. Following its much praised menswear ads and runway show starring Gary Oldman, Garett Hedlund, Willem Dafoe and Jamie Bell last fall, the brand has captured three of this year’s buzziest actors in its latest campaign for Fall 2013. The ads star Christoph Waltz, the two-time Tarantino Oscar winner (most recently for his comically twisted role as Dr. King Shultz in Django Unchained), Ben Whishaw, a rising British actor, and Ezra Miller, the baby-faced breakout star of Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Shot by photographer David Sims in London, the New Wave-inspired shots are said to introduce a “duality of wit and style at the heart of the modern man’s attitude to dressing.” Each of the three actors capture aspects of Prada’s Fall 2013 collection—Waltz the elegance, Whishaw the carefree alt charm and Miller, the youthful burst.
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Isabel Marant is announced as H&M’s latest designer collaboration

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H&M has announced its latest collaboration for Fall 2013 and it’s with none other than with the hugely popular Parisian cool girl label, Isabel Marant. Fans of the label’s pricey wares will no doubt be thrilled.

The Isabel Marant for H&M collection will be available worldwide on November 14th, 2013, which is just over five months away by our count. The collection will feature clothing and accessories for women as well as Marant’s first ever collection for men. And while H&M has yet to release sketches or sneak peeks of the collection, we can only imagine it will include several nods to the designer’s signature rock ‘n’ roll meets boho aesthetic.

“I am flattered by this collaboration. H&M works with the best designers, and this invitation is an exciting honour,” said Marant via H&M press release. “I aim at creating something real—something women want to wear in their everyday lives, with a certain carefree style. I think this is very Parisian: you dress up, but don’t pay too much attention to it, and you still look sexy.”

Though the Isabel Marant DNA is intrinsically linked to effortlessness, we expect the upcoming H&M collection to be anything but understated. Stay tuned for more details as this story develops.


Jason Wu named artistic director of Boss womenswear

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Jason Wu for Boss womenswear

Photography by Peter Stigter

Jason Wu is adding another womenswear label to his “to-do” list. That’s right: as well as his position at the helm of his own label, Wu has just been named the artistic director of Boss Womenswear. The new double act puts Wu in the ranks of other multi-label designers such as Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs.

Wu, who immigrated to Vancouver from Taiwan at age 9 and received his formal fashion training at Parsons in NYC, hit the jackpot when first lady Michelle Obama wore one of his gowns to the Inaugural Ball in 2009. Since then he’s had many celebrated showings at New York Fashion Week and also collaborated on a quick-to-sell-out collection for Target.

Hugo Boss CEO Claus Dietrich Lahrs has commented on Wu’s new position saying that he hopes he will “generate a powerful and creative statement for Boss Womenswear.” The designer has delivered a statement of his own saying that he has “long been a fan of Hugo Boss’s vast tradition and lineage in extraordinary tailoring”. He continued in saying that he plans “to develop a strong, feminine womenswear collection that reciprocates the brand’s authority in menswear.” With such a great track record despite his mere 30 years of age, were excited to see what this young designer has in store for us next!

Wu’s first Boss womenswear collection will be presented for Pre-Fall 2014.


Sarah Jessica Parker is designing a collection for Manolo Blahnik

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Sarah Jessica Parker Manolo Blahnik Collection

Carrie Bradshaw’s ultimate dream may finally come true.

Fifteen years after she graced our television screens as the beloved sex columnist in Sex and the City, real life Bradshaw Sarah Jessica Parker is officially launching her first footwear collection for Manolo Blahnik.

It should come as no surprise, given Parker’s inextricable link to shoes. “In a silly way, I think it’s what people have expected of me most because of Carrie Bradshaw,” Parker once told Vogue. “Because I got to play that role, I wore a lot of shoes, and by default I learned an enormous amount.”

According to British Vogue, Parker looked to “great old-school labels like Charles Jourdan and Maud Frizon” as inspiration for her collection. Bringing her own flair to the design table, she will be offering “something different” that will reflect her personal taste. She expresses, “We’re putting new colours together that people don’t typically do, just beautiful combinations that you wish existed in your closet. And in terms of bags, thinking about that period of the Seventies into the Eighties, what those women were carrying, taking away the bells and the whistles and hardware and really making it about the bag.” And the best part? Her whole collection might not put a huge dent in your bank account. The SJP collection will feature elegant pumps and flats that will range from $200 to $300, with bags around $700.

Produced in Europe and New York City, the SJP collection will arrive in the U.S. early next year, exclusively sold through Nordstrom.


We sit down with Viktor & Rolf in advance of the duo’s designer dolls exhibit at Luminato in Toronto

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Viktor Rolf Dolls Luminato

By Sarah Casselman

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Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are mild-mannered and scrupulously polite, yet they’re anything but boring. When the three of us meet at The Room at Hudson’s Bay in Toronto (the store held a VIP cocktail party in their honour in April), the look-alike Dutch duo’s off-the-wall wit is apparent the moment seating commences, with Horsting on one side of the six-foot-plus sofa and Snoeren on the other. A perfectly executed spontaneous stunt done with mirror-like precision—that’s just how Viktor & Rolf roll.

After graduating from the Netherlands’ Artez Institute of the Arts in 1992, the designers began working together, and by the following year they had relocated to Paris to launch their collection. Known for blurring the lines between art and fashion, Horsting and Snoeren specialized in highly conceptual couture design until they shifted into ready-to-wear in 2000. Signature details like pussycat bows, shirt frills and flowered corsages brought a whiff of reality to the label’s eccentric art house-style surrealism. In Fall 2003, Tilda Swinton took the runway followed by an army of clones made up in her likeness; in Fall 2005, model Lily Cole opened their bedroom-themed show wearing built-in bedding; and in Spring 2012, Barbie-esque babes in dresses with exaggerated stitching made their runway entrance, and exit, through a larger-than-life tulle skirt-turned-curtain.
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What to wear to Power Ball: Wardrobe tips inspired by 13 seasoned partygoers

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What to wear to Power Ball Tiyana Grulovic

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Power Ball is but a day away, and as you can imagine, it has Toronto’s creative crowd in an anticipatory tizzy. For the 15th year in a row, The Power Plant’s annual fundraiser has managed to maintain “art party of the year” status and this year is sure to be no different. As such, you can imagine the importance placed on wardrobing. If you’re going to this year’s event and still don’t know what to wear, we turned to 9 of the city’s most stylish (plus 3 FASHION editors!) for clues as to what they are wearing. For more, see last year’s coverage.

Tickets are still available at thepowerplant.org but by this time tomorrow they’re likely to disappear. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
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What’s in your bag, Milly designer Michelle Smith?

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Photography by Michelle Nunes

Photography by Michelle Nunes

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In celebration of the Milly’s exclusive collection for Banana Republic, we got to rendezvous with designer Michelle Smith when she hit Toronto last week. Only hours from just getting off the plane from her Memorial Day long weekend vacation, Smith was all smiles while greeting media and diehard fans that eagerly anticipated her visit. With no time to clean out her bag from her holiday travels, we got an honest and filter free look into what the designer carries with her from day to day. From Smith’s daily cravings (granola bars) to her Instagram obsession (follow her @MillybyMichelle) to her love for science, we got see a whole new side of this designer mom’s life through the items in her bag.
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