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Fashion

Hello, kaleidoscopic prints: Mary Katrantzou is coming to Topshop!

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What winter blues? Visions of spring just got a little bit more vibrant with the announcement of the Bay presenting Mary Katrantzou for Topshop this March at their Yorkdale Mall location!

Dare we dream to get our paws on the designer’s signature porcelain bowl-inspired skirts? You bet! The 10-piece spring capsule collection will be reminiscent of the surreal style we saw for fall, while keeping true to the Topshop girl’s aesthetic.  And with prices ranging from $120–630, a Jason Wu for Target–paced shelf clearer is certainly likely. Read more »


Fashion

Spring trend report: 114 of the top looks from New York, London, Milan, and Paris!

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Spring trend report: 114 of the top looks from New York, London, Milan, and Paris!

From ladylike lace to colourful clashing prints, we present your complete guide to Spring 2012’s freshest new runway looks.

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Beauty

From runway to… weight loss commercials? We’re digging the high fashion lipstick in this French ad campaign

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When you think of beauty trends, weight loss commercials are generally not the first (or even second, third, or fourth!) thing that comes to mind. However, we can’t stop watching this French ad for Weight Watchers—all because of its stunning makeup artistry. Created by Parisian agency Fred & Farid, the commercial and posters are a huge departure from anything we’ve see this side of the Atlantic. Gone are the approachable spokeswomen and their before and after poses. Instead: bright, highly saturated shots of lips and food—with creative lipstick designs at the centre of it all. Read more »


Shopping

FASHION Plates: 9 ways to combat winter blues

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Yesterday, according to experts, was the most depressing day of the year. To combat Blue Monday’s long-term effects, we’re giving all you gloomy readers ways to cheer yourselves up! Don’t look outside for 5 minutes, just click your cares away!

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Shopping

Toronto shop notes: Blooming notebooks

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Rifle Paper Co.

Photography by Carlo Mendoza

Thanks to designers like Mary Katrantzou and Jil Sander’s Raf Simons, floral prints bloom on the runways year-round. Carry these bold botanicals over from your wardrobe to your workspace with a Rifle Paper Co. vintage-wallpaper-inspired notebook (shown, $16 for three, drakegeneralstore.ca). Perfect for jotting down New Year’s resolutions.


Scene

Vote! Who takes the cake for best dressed designer/muse duo at the British Fashion Awards?

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Left: Alexa Chung and Christopher Kane shot by Mike Marsland/Getty Images. Middle: Kate Moss and Stella McCartney shot by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images. Right: Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham shot by Mike Marsland/Getty Images

Some of our favourite fashion talents were celebrated last night at the 2011 British Fashion Awards in London, with Sarah Burton, Mary Katrantzou, and Charlotte Olympia (to name a few) coming out on top in their respective categories. As always, what everyone was wearing was equally top of our minds, and we’ve especially enjoyed these neat little red carpet photo combos of megawatt designer avec megawatt muse (or muse-come-designer in Victoria Beckham’s case). In one corner, we’ve got the bright-young-thing duo of Christopher Kane and Alexa Chung donning a look from his Spring 2012 collection, and with Charlotte Olympia kitten heels. In the other, you’ve got the black-on-black pairing of Marc Jacobs and Beckham in her own design (may we just say, Vicky’s looking less extreme than usual, and we like it) The always-cool McCartney and Moss duo triumph with Stella in a sexy-tomboy suit and Kate in all-over fishnet. So, who takes the cake for the best dressed duo?

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Fashion » At the shows

TFW diary: Sarah Stevenson lets us into her secret garden

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Sarah Stevenson Spring 2012

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Even though the weather outside was miserable, flowers were in bloom at Sarah Stevenson’s Spring 2012 presentation at LGFW. I’ve seen Stevenson do floral before (her Spring 2011 featured pastels and hand-painted prints) but she does it well. This time around, the flowers were bright and inspired by springtime in her native Toronto. To create the prints, Stevenson combined different mediums mixing photography and digital manipulation a la Mary Katrantzou and watercolours and pencil crayons. Tiny blue and red bouquets covered sundresses and purple and blue petals fell to white on dresses and skirts. One standout dress had leaves draped on one shoulder and matching green butterflies on the front. Accompanied by perfectly mussed-up braids and bright lips, models looked like they emerged from a secret garden. Stevenson’s fresh take on her familiar floral prints had me longing for gardens in springtime on a gloomy October day.

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Inside Vancouver’s all-star The Room opening with Jessica Stam, Brian Atwood, Erdem, and Alexandra Richards

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Photography by Phillip Chin/George Pimentel

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A black carpet, sprinkled with male models in white tuxes, beckoned guests to the second floor of the Bay Downtown Vancouver for the Thursday night grand opening of The Room, the department store’s second den of high fashion. Erdem Moralioglu and Brian Atwood—both on their first visit to Vancouver—Jason Matlo, Monika Deol, and Jessica Stam (to name a few) were among the crowd of well-dressed revellers air kissing, clinking glasses, and noshing on Hawksworth Restaurant–made canapés.
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