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Saskatoon It girl: Jacqueline Conway

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Saskatoon It girl: Jacqueline Conway

Editor: Sarah Casselman

Prairie belle Jacqueline Conway is the owner of Trend Blazer Marketing and a jazz, tap and lyrical dance teacher. But that’s not all this 27-year-old mover and shaker choreographs; she’s also the brains behind the Saskatoon Fashion and Design Festival (she’s the executive director) and Mix & Match Marketplace, a designer trade show for Regina and Saskatoon artists that targets the province’s nouveau fashion crowd. Conway relies on labels like Club Monaco and Rachel Roy for classic everyday staples and Zac Posen and BCBG Max Azria when she’s looking to create a little after-hours sizzle. Local labels Rebecca King and Laurie Brown—among those Conway has selected for pop-up shops and fashion shows—have found their way into her closet amongst her Joe Fresh and H&M finds. “Retail therapy is the best solution to a stressful workweek,” she says.

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Traveling beauty: The world’s best hotel amenities are worth slipping into your bag upon checkout

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Beauty travel

By Chadner Navarro

One of the best perks of checking into a hotel is rushing to the bathroom to see what kind of products await. Some offer perennial favourites like Kiehl’s or cool niche brands such as Malin + Goetz, but others commission beauty brands to create exclusive items, making them that much more likely to disappear upon checkout. Herewith, our picks for hotels that provide the squeal factor when it comes to travel-size toiletries.

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The shining: How gleaming metallics and the like are lighting up both art and fashion

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Art: How luminescence is lighting up both art and fashion

By Betty Ann Jordan

The art world—much like the fashion world—loves to redefine colour every chance it gets. Recently, a new batch of materials and technologies has enabled artists and designers to work with exquisite light-infused hues, ranging from peek-a-boo prismatics to sizzling minerals and gleaming metallics.

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Iridescence, for example, can be seen in both cutting-edge exhibits and the latest fashion collections. A visual property of mother-of-pearl and moonstones, oil slicks, alloys and minerals, iridescence occurs when light plays over micro-grooved surfaces and separates into prismatic colours. For a visual cue, see photos of Carey Mulligan at this year’s Met Ball: her scaled Prada halter dress, made entirely of metal paillettes, reflected a different spectrum of hues in nearly every red carpet shot. Read more »


Art or commerce? We zoom in on the explosion of designer video

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From left: Ruth Hogben’s Fall 2009 Film for Gareth Pugh (courtesy of showstudio.com), David Lynch directs Marion Cotillard for Dior, 2010, and nowness.com’s <em>Beautiful Rebels</em> by Ryan Mcginley for Edun, 2012 (courtesy of nowness.com)

From left: Ruth Hogben’s Fall 2009 Film for Gareth Pugh (courtesy of showstudio.com), David Lynch directs Marion Cotillard for Dior, 2010, and nowness.com’s Beautiful Rebels by Ryan Mcginley for Edun, 2012 (courtesy of nowness.com)

Fashion Television (RIP) was ahead of its time in several ways, and here is one of them: In 1985, when executive producer Jay Levine launched the program, he imagined it might become a channel for short narrative videos about clothing. Fashion films, now so inescapable a phenomenon, were then just a thought without a name: if music videos could revolutionize the way we consume pop, couldn’t a little cinematography do the same for clothing? The ’70s had seen then-living legends Guy Bourdin and Richard Avedon experiment with the moving image, and as film-recording cameras became less expensive, it seemed likely they’d land in the hands of younger, emerging lensmen. As MTV was to music videos, so might Fashion Television be to this new mode of image-making. Read more »


Cool mint is having a beauty moment. We give you the low down in 16 points

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Beauty noticed: Cool mint

Of all the delicate pastels having a moment this season, cool mint is the one keeping us captivated long after Easter has passed.

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Fall 2012 Preview: Our sneak peek of the best of what’s to come from New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion week

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Runway preview: Fall 2012

Drink in the magic of Fall 2012 with FASHION’s first look at the hottest shows, most bewitching sets, best new trends and more.

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Model Behaviour: Our August issue photo shoot celebrating what the fiercest runway stars wear while they’re off duty

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Photo shoot: Model behavior

Whether they are coming, going or waiting their turn for hair and makeup, models show their savvy in both clothes and attitude. Check out our August issue ode to model off duty style.

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Denim gets a makeover this season: Check out 16 metallic, waxed, printed and even reptilian picks!

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The list: Denim

Classic denim gets a kick in the pants with new finishes and wild designs. Check out our favourite picks.

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