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Last night, in a packed ballroom at the Hotel Le Meurice, Viktor & Rolf celebrated the 5th birthday of their Flowerbomb fragrance with a surprise performance by Grace Jones. The 61-year-old diva opened with “La Vie En Rose” against a backdrop of, you guessed it, roses.
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Photography by Raymund Galsim
On Friday morning we trekked out to Plutino Groups gorgeous loft offices to shoot an interview with London’s designer of the moment, Winnipeg native Mark Fast. We also got to see a few pieces from his upcoming lower-priced line, Faster (which we can’t share yet), and check out some complicated knit creations from his Spring 2010 collection, including a dress covered in Swarovski Crystal Pearls that feels like it weighs about 50 lbs. (Get the full story when our video airs in January.) As part of the meet-and-greet festivities, the designer threw a cocktail fête at Mercer Street boîte Ame. Click the images below to see some snaps from the party.
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Kimberley Newport-Mimran and Joe Mimran at Bloor Street Entertains. Photography by Tom and Aline Sandler
On Wednesday night, Bloor Street threw it’s massive annual fundraising effort for the Canadian Foundation for Aids Research (CANFAR). To reach their $400,000 goal, Bloor Street Entertains turns boutiques all over Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood in pop-up restos catered by the city’s top chefs. Marc Thuet, Jamie Kennedy and Blu’s Massimo Collavani were just a few of the foodie names who cooked menus at venues normally known for dishing out luxe–Tiffany & Co., Eleven, George C., Holt Renfrew, Teatro Verde and Cartier among them. After dinner, the party moved over to the Royal Ontario Museum where the guest list included designers Sunny Fong, Jeremy Laing, Philip Sparks and Nada Shepherd, Canadian fashion royals Joe Mimran and Kimberley Newport-Mimran (who were also the event’s co-chairs), and sea of smartly dressed socials who cut a rug and tried to outbid each other in the silent auction.
Click on the photos below to see snaps from the event and if you don’t see yourself in the gallery, head to torontolife.com/BSE for more pics.
Try hosting a swinging little holiday cinq-a-sept: With the best advice from our experts, here’s how to nosh, toast and properly fête 12 of your nearest and dearest this season.
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EATCranberry canapés, lollipop hors d’oeuvres and chic ways to serve. |
DRINKSwish cocktails, reversible glassware, local tipples and more. |
BE MERRYSet the mood with regal hues, dusky tunes and chic paperless invites. |
Photography by Jon Howcroft
The first annual Frocktail Party combined cocktails and competitive shopping, with all proceeds going to fund juvenile diabetes research. Held in Toronto this past Thursday, the sold-out event saw women showing up to bid on more than 80 pre-loved dresses and accessories, and men following in their wake to see the Shark Week behavior of the bidding babes.
While tastes varied, all Frocktailees agreed that with 100 per cent of the nights profits going to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation—the night was organized by a group of young ladies who had seen their friend Vanessa Oliver deal with the daily realities of living with juvenile diabetes—there was no guilt involved in splurging. See photos from the party after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Lovely in…cruise-inspired party wear
Spotted: Booby Ball 8
Ahoy, ladies! FASHION hit the high seas on Friday at the Booby Ball, a fundraiser in support of Rethink Breast Cancer, and reeled in some charitably-mined Lovelies.
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When: Thursday September 10, 2009
Where: Harry Rosen store, Yorkville
Once upon a time I would have called this a ’sausage party,’ but post-Apatow, we use the sophisticated term ‘bro-mance.’ And such describesthe Harry Rosen TIFF-inspired Evening with Steve Nash. Held atop the famed mens merchandiser’s flagship Yorkville location, on a terrace overlooking a TIFF ground zero that featured a ticketed blue Lamborghini, Porsches and throngs of celeb-stalkers. This is the stuff of TIFF frivolity: intimate parties in little-known locales, cool tunes, nice clothes, great weather and hell, even a homegrown celeb or two. Read the rest of this entry »
Photography by Nicole Stafford
Last night’s party at the Bloor Street Holt Renfrew had all the makings of your prototypical Toronto fashion shindig. Leesa Butler? Check. Greta Constantine? Check. Canapes and Peroni? Check and check. The big difference was the presence of one Scott Schuman, better known to you as the photog behind the street fashion blog, The Sartorialist. Read the rest of this entry »
All photos by Sarah Nicole Prickett
This past Thursday, FASHION went Powerballin’ at the Power Plant’s 11th annual “original contemporary art party,” the Power Ball. Co-chaired by Cleophee Eaton, Michael Cooper and Queen West gallery guy Clint Roenisch, the trailer-trash bash was as much about raising hell as raising funds. Design duo du jour Castor hauled in their high-kitsch Winnebago and–what swine flu?–a real, live-looking pig roast. Next door, art (and bar) star Dean Baldwin slung vodka and Kool-Aid to the likes of Drake Hotel-ier Jeff Stober. In the “video outhouse,” scandalous “private parties” became less so, as they were broadcast to the big screen inside; other projections included “Mad Max” and a “Conceptual Art soft porn peep show.” Read the rest of this entry »
The hotel bar is a bastion of old-school glamour, so we jumped on the chance to take our patio-ing up a notch last week at the Intercontinental’s SkyLounge, which opened with a splash on a glorious 24-degree evening, and not a moment too soon. Its sleek low loungers were filled with sun-deprived Toronto media faces, such as Jian Ghomeshi and Anne Mroczkowski, who nibbled delicious bites from Signatures restaurant and sipped the signature cocktail; Ernestine’s Elixir, with Hpnotiq, lychee liqueur and cran—$1 from each one sold will go to Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter. Providing a suitably sophisticated soundtrack (complete with harp) were students from the Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School, who will be strumming their stuff on the patio throughout the summer. We know what we’ll be doing at 5.02 p.m. on Thursdays…
Snaps from the party after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
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