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Power Ball 2013: 69 photos from inside the art party of the year

By Randi Bergman | June 7th, 2013 | 2:00 pm

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Last night, Power Ball 2013 a.k.a. the art party of the year/social event of the season and so on and so forth went down at The Power Plant gallery on Toronto’s harbourfront. Despite the rain, the city’s finest art, fashion and social types filled the expansive space in designer gowns, costumes, and in one instance, a birthday suit. Celebrating its 15^th year under the guise of Andy Warhol’s famous line “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” the space was tricked out with Factory-worthy silver foil which made for some pretty fierce voguing props for designer Jeremy Laing and Frank Griggs much later in the evening. Power Ball’s famed exhibitions and installations were omnipresent as always, including a fortune-telling psychic, Chat Roulette-style wall projections, and two twisted prom queens dancing around a birthday cake and a mounted spinning motorcycle all night long. Curiouser and curiouser…
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What to wear to Power Ball: Wardrobe tips inspired by 13 seasoned partygoers

By Randi Bergman | June 5th, 2013 | 3:30 pm

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Power Ball is but a day away, and as you can imagine, it has Toronto’s creative crowd in an anticipatory tizzy. For the 15th year in a row, The Power Plant’s annual fundraiser has managed to maintain “art party of the year” status and this year is sure to be no different. As such, you can imagine the importance placed on wardrobing. If you’re going to this year’s event and still don’t know what to wear, we turned to 9 of the city’s most stylish (plus 3 FASHION editors!) for clues as to what they are wearing. For more, see last year’s coverage.

Tickets are still available at thepowerplant.org but by this time tomorrow they’re likely to disappear. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
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Mortification central! What 7 of our editors looked like on prom night

By Randi Bergman | April 29th, 2013 | 5:00 pm

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Oh, prom. That all-important day in many a young lady’s life that comes and goes with many awkward photos to document. We all aspire to be gazelles, but most of end up looking all too earthly too forget. Ill-placed bows, unflattering chiffon cuts, forehead framing ringlets… y’all know what we’re talking about. Prom.

Since we’re big into making prom as awesomely fashionable as possible for our youngest readers, we decided to throw our own prom looks into the ring as both cautionary tales and endearing looks back as what we looked like back on our respective big nights out.

Take a peek at what some of FASHION’s editors looked like on prom night!
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Inside AGO Massive Party: 31 photos of gold dresses, gold glitter, gold jewels, gold body painted models and more!

By Randi Bergman | April 19th, 2013 | 4:00 pm

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Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Last night’s Massive Party at the Art Gallery of Ontario was just that. Massive. The ninth annual fundraiser sprawled across much the AGO’s Frank Gehry-fied space with gold glitter, gold jewels, gold-inspired exhibits and even gold body paint on scantily clad models. The theme for the night, if you haven’t guessed by now, was indeed luxury’s finest metal: gold. Inspiring many of the night’s 1,800 attendees to dress their blingiest, gold may as well have been a metaphor for “top tier,” with many of Toronto’s top artists—Maylee Todd, Thrush Holmes and Tibi Tibi Neuspiel to name just a few—participating with one-off installations and performances for the night. Even the night’s curator, multidisciplinary artist Justin Broadbent created exclusive pieces for the event, our favourite being a graffitied “Poor Hipster” painting bookended with gold streamers.
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Party Pics: 58 snaps of Toronto’s stylish set kicking off World MasterCard Fashion Week at Holt Renfrew

By Paige Dzenis | March 19th, 2013 | 5:00 pm

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Photography by George Pimentel Photography

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Not even a micro-blizzard can stop Toronto from celebrating the start of World MasterCard Fashion Week in style. Open-toed shoes and floor-grazing hemlines were spotted on many of the attendees at Holt Renfrew’s cocktail kickoff party, with barely a salt stain or goose-bump in sight.

The party, which started after the last of Monday’s shows, transplanted the front row set—that is, a mix of editors, designers, photographers and buyers—onto the third floor of Holt Renfrew. Ambient music (courtesy a Bellosound DJ in a white Jeremy Laing dress) mixed well with on-brand magenta lighting, making for quite the party den far away from the tents at David Pecaut square. And magenta wasn’t just everywhere thanks to the lighting: from Ashley Rowe’s dip-dyed hair and bright caftan to Lisa Tant’s magenta bolero jacket to a pocket square (that may have actually been a pair of panties, according to one onlooker) worn by a crafty male guest, the evening was filled with shades of pink, purple and red. Read more »

Inside our 35th anniversary party: We celebrate in style alongside 700 of our chicest friends

By Randi Bergman | October 19th, 2012 | 6:30 pm

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Photography by Kevin Gonsalves

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What’s better than a birthday party? Your own birthday party! On Wednesday night, the FASHION team (well, that’d be us) celebrated the magazine’s 35^th anniversary, and as you might expect, Toronto’s most stylish guys and gals were out in full force. 700 of our closest friends packed into the Distillery’s Fermenting Cellar to toast us with Skyy Vodka cocktails, mini burgers and musical performances by Divine Brown and The Parallels.
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The Coveteur (and the industry fans who love them) celebrate RW&CO with nachos, doughnuts, an ice cream truck at Natasha Koifman’s private abode

By Randi Bergman | August 23rd, 2012 | 4:30 pm

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RW&CO and The Coveteur TIFF Kick off party

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Last night, the trio behind The Coveteur (along with the industry fans who love them) descended upon the private abode of a one miss Natasha Koifman to celebrate RW&CO’s new e-commerce website (coming soon) as well as to unofficially kick off the two-week countdown to TIFF. With the site’s founders, Erin Kleinberg, Stephanie Mark and Jake Rosenberg all head-to-toed in RW&CO’s fall collection, the soiree served as a stylish farewell to summer. However, the team at NKPR was surely not ready to give it up just yet, with an ice cream truck parked outside, Tiny Tom Donuts, Food Dudes nachos and Kernel’s popcorn served inside. To boot, TIFF-ified Skyy Vodka cocktails inspired by several of this year’s A-listers (ahem, Knightley, Gosling and Paltrow) with old-fashioned paper straws. Not to mention, the entire event took place in and around Koifman’s pool and waterfall hot tub. No big deal.

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TGIF Mixtape: 18 cottage-ready tracks our associate editor wants you to listen to lakeside all weekend long

By FASHION Staff | July 20th, 2012 | 10:00 am

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Summer will always evoke memories of sleepover camp, but until they make camps for adults (someone please do this!) cottages will have to do. This week’s mixtape is a little bit folk, slightly honky tonk and totally ideal for campfire cuddles and late nights by the lake.

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Power Ball 2013: 69 photos from inside the art party of the year

What to wear to Power Ball: Wardrobe tips inspired by 13 seasoned partygoers

Mortification central! What 7 of our editors looked like on prom night

Inside AGO Massive Party: 31 photos of gold dresses, gold glitter, gold jewels, gold body painted models and more!

Party Pics: 58 snaps of Toronto’s stylish set kicking off World MasterCard Fashion Week at Holt Renfrew

Inside our 35th anniversary party: We celebrate in style alongside 700 of our chicest friends

The Coveteur (and the industry fans who love them) celebrate RW&CO with nachos, doughnuts, an ice cream truck at Natasha Koifman’s private abode

TGIF Mixtape: 18 cottage-ready tracks our associate editor wants you to listen to lakeside all weekend long

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