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All posts under ‘Halifax’
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | December 22nd, 2011 | 12:30 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Wunderkammer
Meaning: A cabinet of wonders, of marvels, of curiosities; synonym: my bathroom. Origin: Germany.
Usage: “A collection of bookshelves, Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer, salon-style hangings, advertising, litter, clutter, chaos, and any other example of our desire to fill space.” — Among the Mess
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By Adriana Ermter | August 9th, 2010 | 2:25 pm
From the West Coast to the Atlantic Ocean, Beauty Director Adriana Ermter scours the nation for must-try rejuvenating, relaxing and beautifying spas. This month, she sends Nadine LaRoche to check out Spirit Urban Spa in Halifax.
Spirit Urban Spa
5150 Salter St., Suite 200, Halifax, 902-431-8100, spiritspa.ca
As my aesthetician Allison lifts my head from the table, I feel all weight release from my body. I’m half way through the one-hour Sweet Skin Organic Facial ($90), which is customized for your skin type, waiting for my strawberry rhubarb mask to hydrate and replenish my skin and Allison has taken the opportunity to massage apricot oil into my scalp. Read more »
By Jennifer Campbell | March 29th, 2010 | 2:30 pm
Halifax designer Katrina Tuttle is set to put on her second show on the Toronto Fashion Week runway on Wednesday evening. (See her Spring 2010 collection.) She talks champagne and Sarah Jessica Parker in our pre-show Q&A.
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By Nadine LaRoche | November 5th, 2009 | 3:08 pm
For Thaw, Halifax conceptual fashion designer Akshay Tyagi’s (akshaytyagi.com) debut solo collection, the inspiration was simple: cracked ice along the winter-licked shores of Nova Scotia’s St Margaret’s Bay. As swiftly as the icy scene gave seed to the idea of a collection, the designer was instantly envisioning bits of his future designs—the pleats of translucent fabrics and the folds of layered cloth, like frozen water wrapping around a rock.
But how he would share this quickly cultivated idea to the public wouldn’t be as simple.
“This couldn’t just be your typical runway show,” says Tyagi.
By Jennifer Campbell | October 22nd, 2009 | 2:41 pm
KATRINA TUTTLE Spring 2010. Photography by Angela Y. Martin
Not unlike fellow designer Jason Meyers, Halifax’s Katrina Tuttle designs clothes for parties, though Tuttle’s are of the garden, not nightclub, variety. And many of her spring frocks were garden variety indeed. Similar one-shouldered shifts marched out in textured white, pink satin with a tone-on-tone circle motif, a black and white paintbrush print. Better was Tuttle’s fun take on handkerchiefs. Fabric was buttoned and folded into bubble skirts gray and white, up the front of a translucent pale gray dress or into a strapless frock in three shades of aqua. (The idea was less successful creeping over the shoulders of jackets and yet more dresses.) A few standalone items of note were a strapless maxi in an oversized flower print, a bubble dress done in bright white jersey with floral burnouts and the final looks: two embellished, effusive pieces that seem to best display the kind of party Tuttle wants to attend.
See a gallery of the show after the jump.
By Nadine LaRoche | September 18th, 2009 | 3:33 pm
Photography by Shaun Simpson
When the first outfit of Louanna Murphy’s four-look collection—a pair of high-waisted drainpipe trousers in a warm, leafy print paired with a dusty blue cami and a camel vest with a flawless circle hem and prim epaulettes—appeared on the runway at the Off the Cuff finale on September 13, the design competition was practically already won. Though her two opponents stepped up as her creative and conceptual competition, her technical talent and flawless execution remained unmatched. After the three presented their eight looks (including looks from previous rounds) Murphy took home the winning title, a prize that comes with such benefits as mentoring and instruction sessions, studio and runway time, and gift certificates and fabric. Read more »
By Nadine LaRoche | August 11th, 2009 | 8:02 am
On Thursday, August 13 at noon, the doors of Nova Scotia’s first H&M will open in Dartmouth’s Mic Mac Mall (21 Micmac Blvd., 902-466-2535) and, you know what? I’ve got mixed feelings.
It’s blasphemy, I know—we’re too often ignored over here on the East Coast and I should be celebrating with the giant “Thank you!” H&M billboard I spied earlier this week. But I just can’t. That same jealous twang that popped into my childhood heart when I realized my BFF had other friends and, gasp, they had matching friendship bracelets, too (!) is holding me back. You see, I’m admittedly selfish about my relationship with H&M. Read more »
By Nadine LaRoche | August 4th, 2009 | 11:21 am
Kolston Gogan of Stereo Penguin in Louanna Murphy's winning design. Photography by Shaun Simpson
Challenged to dress a local musician for the stage, the four remaining Off the Cuff competitors were back with new work on on August 2. Heather Rappard dressed her musician, a harpist, in a floor-length midnight blue gown–but was again warned by judges to step up her technical game. Bree Mackin, paired with Mary Stewart, dressed the guitar-strummin’ songbird in a bubbly party dress trimmed in black lace that unfortunately won’t take her to the final round. Read more »
Things get weird: Rob Ford takes comfort in a midnight ride on the TTC
SOUND SEEKERS: The Glass Chain plays Ritual, plays Local Ivan, Erin Saoirse, and more
Fashion designer Adrian Wu dresses up Atwood’s In Other Worlds for the Book Lover’s Ball
Film noir: Osez le noir et blanc avec les robes et accessoires du moment
