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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | May 25th, 2010 | 3:14 pm
image from Sonja Ahler's book The Selves
Everything ’90s is new again, and zines aren’t breaking the rule. To wit: they’re back. There’s a zine-ness to Toronto’s own Worn Journal, the indie fashion magazine favoured by Tavi. There’s the new, must-order First Kiss zine, by New York writers Marisa Meltzer and Elizabeth Spiridakis (aka White Lightning). And tonight, there’s an interactive zine workshop at Magic Pony in Toronto, headed by the arguably over-talented Sonja Ahlers. Read more »
By Rebecca Tay | February 19th, 2010 | 5:45 pm
With Robson Street completely pedestrianized between Bute and Beatty streets and Georgia Street now home to one of the city’s largest public squares, it’s inevitable that visitors will come across the Vancouver Art Gallery (vanartgallery.bc.ca). I love artist Michael Lin’s enormous mural of colourful Taiwanese fabric covering the entire Georgia Street façade, but with all the world’s attention on athletes and their bodies, two exhibitions inside are also worth a visit. Visceral Bodies is a collection of multi-media art inspired by advances in science and medicine, while Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man features 16th century drawings of the genius’ discoveries about the human body, hundreds of years before they were confirmed by, well, scientists. I took my two interns to their first press conference ever, where we got a preview and tour of the latter by its British curator, Martin Clayton of the Royal Collection. Our conclusion? If you’re in need of a mid-Olympics break (or perhaps just some well-deserved quiet time), we suggest checking out these exhibitions.
By Jennifer Campbell | February 1st, 2010 | 2:30 pm
Photo by Alex Jowett up for auction at Heartbeats for Africa 2010
Affairs of the heart are top-of-mind this month, but on the eve of Valentine’s Day, you’ll have a chance to spread the love around a little at the second edition of Heartbeats for Africa, a fundraiser to help women and children in Africa who are living with HIV/AIDS. The art auction is the brainchild of sisters Alison and Kate Lawler-Dean, who work in public relations and art consulting, respectively, and were inspired to create the event after reading Stephanie Nolan’s 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa. (The first Heartbeats was held in 2008.) Read more »
By FASHION Staff | December 9th, 2009 | 9:00 am
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By Siofan Davies | October 7th, 2009 | 3:37 pm
Not everyone with a brush can paint a picture, and certainly not everyone with a camera can take a photo. As Charlotte mused in Lost in Translation: “I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses… taking dumb pictures of your feet.”
The Magenta Foundation (magentafoundation.org) has been encouraging emerging photographic talent for the past five years, publishing a compendium of winners each year to bring attention to their talents. The 288-page, leather-bound fifth volume, Flash Forward 2009 (Consortium, $40), features the new and also revisits the past—checking in on how the program impacted the careers of previous winners. Images range from the spontaneous and photojournalistic in feel to more staged looks at society and culture, and yes, there are even a few horses, though their translation here is far from mediocre.
Select winners will also have their works on display at the Lennox Contemporary gallery (12 Ossington Ave., Toronto) from October 8 to 25.
Click on the images below to view a gallery of photos from the book.
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | August 27th, 2009 | 3:10 pm
Photography by Adam Levett
Our fashion department has interns so bang-on stylish, they make Whitney Port look like an American Eagle greeter. One of these is my lovely friend Sarah Kosloff, who’s spent the last four months toiling behind the magic of editorial shoots. Though her days here are numbered, her talents are not. So, on Sarah Kosloff’s final day as a FASHION intern, I’d like to reveal one of her recent creative endeavours—a series of images she created for Show|OFF at UPC Boutique (128 1/2 Cumberland St., 416-929-9209, upcboutique.com). Read more »
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | August 11th, 2009 | 4:05 pm
Photography by Alana Kakia
“In an Absolut world,” Justin Broadbent jokes, “all the vodka would be beer.”
For an artist, Broadbent can be such a dude. He creates almost hyper-actively—photographing, graphic designing, directing music videos (hotdoggarbage.com), mashing up mediums in big-scale works—and now, he’s been commissioned by Absolut to create a one-day-only art exhibit. But honestly? On the sunny day of our interview, he’d rather be hanging out in the park with pretty girls. And the longer we chat, the clearer I see: this guy is 40 ounces of distilled positivity and not a drop of pretense. Read more »
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | July 27th, 2009 | 2:32 pm
Courtesy of Karin Bubaš
There is something of the Mona Lisa in Lauren Conrad’s signature half-smile, hovering between certain boredom and smug knowingness. We’d just never realized it until last week, when we heard that The Hills are alive again, and in portraiture? No kidding: Karin Bubaš (karinbubas.ca), a Vancouver artist known for photographic work, has created a whole series of drawings of TV’s favourite California girls—mascara running, collagen lips trembling, looks killing from across da club. Read more »
Josh Matlow decides maybe Toronto’s street hockey ban should stand after all
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One fine photo: Photographed by George Whiteside for FASHION’s Summer 2001 issue
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