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Vancouver boutique Barefoot Contessa gives their windows over to local bloggers

By Rebecca Tay | November 3rd, 2010 | 2:50 pm

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The Anthology's window at Vancouver's Barefoot Contessa boutique

The style sense and personal aesthetic of fashion bloggers is often limited to, well, the internet, which is why the project undertaken by Barefoot Contessa owner Eva de Viveiros and her marketing manager, Lauren Wells, is so novel. For the past few weeks, the boutique’s Main Street location (3715 Main St., Vancouver, 604-879-1137, thebarefootcontessa.com) has been featuring window displays curated by local fashion bloggers behind such blogs as The Anthology and Miss Melissa. (The Commercial Drive location windows were guest designed by students from the Visual Merchandising class at John Casablancas Institute).

Fueled by an appreciation for being tweeted about and mentioned in local blogs, de Viveiros and Wells decided to do something to meet the bloggers. “We wanted to do something to support them,” says de Viveiros. “Follow Friday is great, but we wanted to do more; to interact more.” Read more »

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Culture pick: A Shaded View On Fashion Film festival, Paris

By Septembre Anderson | September 22nd, 2010 | 10:15 am

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If you’re not burned out on films and documentaries, post-TIFF–and can swing a last-minute trip to Paris–A Shaded View On Fashion Film, the world’s first annual fashion, style and beauty film festival, will be kicking off at the Centre Georges Pompidou on September 24. Read more »

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Shoe industry taken over by bloggers, Holts shoe section taken over by Tommy Ton

By Elli Stuhler | August 16th, 2010 | 4:40 pm

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Jerome Rousseau booties. Photo by Tommy Ton, courtesy of Holt Renfrew

Love them or hate them, bloggers have taken over the fashion industry faster than an army of bedbugs at Hollister.

Their front row stints is old news by now, but it’s worth checking out how the blogger’s influence affects not only what we decide to wear, but what is designed in the first place. In this case, we’re talking about shoes. Footwear News just took a look at how shoe brands are working with bloggers to get their message out. Case in point: Sebago, a line known foremost for its loafers, has invited Joshua Kissi, co-founder of Streetetiquette.com, to collaborate for footware line, The Nexus Project. The collabo features ten other bloggers who designed custom shoes, who all will be reporting on it on their respective blogs. Farylrobin did their part by sponsoring a participant at this year’s BlogHer conference–in exchange for mentions on the blog.

Here in Canada, Holt Renfrew is teaming up with blogosphere royalty Tommy Ton–the Torontonian behind Jak & Jill and who is known to follow a snap-worthy pair of shoes down the street–to give some street style cred to their shoe department. From August 18 to 30, an exhibit of Ton’s footwear photos, each featuring pieces of footwear that Holts will be carrying for fall, will be displayed at the Bloor Street store within striking distance of the shoes themselves, providing more than a little encouragement for shoppers. The 12 photos, which are worth about $1,500 each will be up for grabs, with entry ballots available at the store for the duration of the exhibit.

Click the images below to see some of the photos that will be on display.

The Rise of the Blogger [WWD]

Fashion

Q&A: The Facehunter is no friend of trends

By Siofan Davies | August 11th, 2010 | 1:45 pm

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Photography by Gunnar Hämmerle/styleclicker.net

In person, Yvan Rodic displays the sort of artful dishevelment and casual indifference you’d expect from a cool young Frenchman. The photographer behind the popular style blog Facehunter, he sees himself as part of a shift in the youth zeitgeist, and true to the site’s name, his images are more about people than the clothes they’re wearing. His pictures can now be browsed offline in a tome titled, naturally, Facehunter (Prestel, $32). FASHION caught up with Rodic in Toronto when he was in town to give a talk to the photogenic fillies from The Society, and we quickly learned that his rumpled appearance belies impassioned opinions.

READ: Q&A with Yvan Rodic

This article originally appeared in the September issue of FASHION.

Fashion

Tavi charms Elijah Wood and everyone else in her Rodarte x Target video

By Jennifer Campbell | December 8th, 2009 | 4:19 pm

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Putting aside for a moment our reservations about the current teen blogger hysteria (Tavi at CDG! Sea of Shoes at the Crillon Ball!) we find this video that the aforementioned Tavi created for Rodarte’s Target collab to be pretty endearing. The Style Rookie blogger/Rodarte BFF captured the campaign shoot in North Dakota (where her mom sang Norwegian lullabies) and the widely-leaked preview at New York’s Gagosian Gallery, where Tavi charmed Elijah Wood and offered up commentary on her favourite pieces from the collection–among them a mustard-coloured lace sweater which she “might wear every day, which is kind of gross.” Spoken like a true 13-year-old. [Style.com]

Video after the jump. Read more »

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Play dress up with Canadian fashion paper dolls

By Jennifer Campbell | December 7th, 2009 | 11:11 am

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Danielle Meder's paper doll illustration of Pink Tartan's Spring 2010 collection.

During (and after) October’s Spring 2010 LG Fashion Week, readers of fashion illustrator Danielle Meder’s blog, Final Fashion, were treated to paper doll renderings of Pink Tartan, Philip Sparks, Vawk and 12 other Canadian collections. In each set selection of looks sat tabbed and ready to be cut out and put onto paper dolls styled in the show’s hair and makeup–and all the appropriate underpinnings. Now Meder, a Ryerson fashion grad whose illustrations have appeared in NOW Magazine, the Globe & Mail and the National Post, has compiled her series into a book (US$43, blurb.com). (If you want to cut out the clothes and play dress up, Meder will send you a PDF for $18.) We had a quick email chat with Meder to find out what inspired the paper dolls, her favourite illustrators and why she focuses on the local. (Read the interview and see a sampling of the fashion dolls, after the jump) Read more »

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Christopher Kane has angered Fake Karl

By Anna Cipollone | December 3rd, 2009 | 11:53 am

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Photography by Peter Stigter

Photography by Peter Stigter

Blogger Fake Karl cut up Christopher Kane for comments he made about his “fear of bloggers.” Kane said, “No one who wants to read a serious review of a show is going to look at what a 14-year-old thinks. But it has become more critical; people can say what they want about anyone on a blog without consequences and that’s quite scary.” Fake Karl’s rebuttal? “Mr. Kane is right to be afraid. Honest, critical opinions are a threat to his credibility as a designer- and so they should be. Nevermind whether they come from a 14 year old or a 140 year old (such as I). Perhaps he’ll start designing clothes rather than gimmicks, hm?” [Fake Karl, Vogue UK]

Shopping

Sale alert: Ewanika and fashion blogger finds

By Jennifer Campbell | July 20th, 2009 | 3:16 pm

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Toronto

Trisha Ewanika’s eponymous boutique is moving house at the end of the summer. Until the location at 490 College St. (416-927-9699, ewanika.ca) closes this Saturday, July 25, sale items will be up to 70% off and you’ll also find samples and one-of-a-kind pieces.

Vancouver

A group of Vancouver fashion bloggers, including Terri Potratz (theconveyorbelt.com) and Shallom Johnson (stylefinds.blogspot.com) are holding a sale of new and vintage pieces. July 25, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., 1898 Main St.

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