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Kristen Stewart Interview: We sit down with the star in Paris and discuss fronting Balenciaga’s Florabotanica fragrance

By | October 15th, 2012 | 9:30 am

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Kristen Stewart and Balenciaga Florabotanica

It’s been a mind-bending year for actress Kristen Stewart. Sarah Daniel sits down with Balenciaga’s new fragrance face.

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In the advertising campaign for Balenciaga Florabotanica (from $90, at department stores and thebay.com), Kristen Stewart, the face of the dark floral fragrance, stands amid a minefield of ominously beautiful botanicals, inspired by the same vintage Pierre Frey wallpaper that influenced Nicolas Ghesquière’s Fall 2011 collection. Hovering near a stoic Stewart is what appears to be a Venus flytrap, angling to chomp down on her head.

“I think he’s fucking amazing,” Stewart says of Ghesquière, the house’s creative director and the man who wooed her to front its latest fragrance, perhaps with the promise that she wouldn’t have to pose on satin sheets—or smile. Though, on set, she would have been willing to cooperate if that had been the order of the day. “I was like, ‘Do you want me to stand a certain way to show the curves of the dress? Do you want me to model it up?’ By default, you sort of learn these things over the years, but they were like, ‘No, no, no, just stuff your hands in your pockets and just stand there.’”
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Manicurist Jin Soon Choi flips the bird to nail art with her line of classic lacquers

By | October 4th, 2012 | 3:00 pm

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Nails: Manicurist Jin Soon Choi flips the bird to nail art with her line of classic lacquers

It’s a nail art–filled world, but Jin Soon Choi isn’t buying it. Manhattan’s favourite manicurist launches her own lacquer line, and Celia Ellenberg makes an appointment.

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“I hate filing,” says Jin Soon Choi, seated for a pedicure. The nail industry veteran with nearly 25 years of polishing experience winces as an aesthetician at her Upper East Side salon drags an emery board across her well-maintained toes. It was her first bombshell of the day; the second followed shortly thereafter. “High fashion doesn’t go with nail art,” she deadpans, thus denouncing the abstract expressionist movement that has taken over the backstage nail game for the past four-plus seasons (never mind the pink, silver-trimmed manicures at Chanel’s Fall couture presentation in July). Read more »

Carly Rae Jepsen: Canada’s brightest new name in pop opens up on sudden fame, family ties and a certain fanboy named Bieber

By | October 4th, 2012 | 1:30 pm

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Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen. Photographed by Gabor Jurina. Styled by Zeina Esmail. Dress, price on request, by Lucian Matis.

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The first thing to come out of Carly Rae Jepsen’s mouth after she rushes into Vancouver’s Sugar Studios, fresh off a flight from Los Angeles, is an apology. She wanted to arrive at her first fashion magazine cover shoot early, she tells the crew, but her driver had to “circle around the streets a bit” to shake off the paparazzi. The way she explains the schedule hiccup isn’t blasé, showy or even caustic. Jepsen’s honeyed tone conveys a blend of amazement and excitement that can only come from being nouveau famous. Unlike new wealth, freshly minted fame is not about flaunting what you have, it’s about being humble about what you’re worth.

At 26, the Mission, B.C., native has no reason to be modest right now. Ever since Carly Rae Jepsen’s song “Call Me Maybe” was unleashed last year, and fortuitously reintroduced to the Twittersphere by Justin Bieber (Jepsen is signed to Bieber’s U.S. label), the track has taken on a career of its own. It became a number one hit in 37 countries, achieving the kind of global success that has Lady Gaga going, well, gaga over it (Mother Monster tweeted “I’m coming after you” to Jepsen).

As of press time, Jepsen’s flirty anthem is 2012’s longest-reigning chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100. Armed with a lyrical hook that brings to mind the mania of Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Outta My Head,” Jepsen’s synth-laced cut is so omnipresent that nobody from her team calls it by its name. It’s referred to as “the song.” Will she be singing “the song” on The Tonight Show? Does she know Will Ferrell is protesting “the song” right now? Oh, my God, did you see what the hot guys on the baseball team from Harvard did with “the song”?
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Canadian actress Hannah Simone on Schmidt, her new webseries and playing against type

By | October 3rd, 2012 | 10:00 am

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Hannah Simone

Photography by Peter Ash Lee

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“If you look at my resume or where I’ve lived, it seems like I’m all over the map, but I feel like [my life] has been completely consistent,” says Hannah Simone, whose roles on Zooey Deschanel’s sitcom New Girl and the dystopian webseries H+ have taken her in a new direction from her previous endeavours—being a MuchMusic VJ; working as, wait for it, a human rights and refugees officer for the UN. “My life is so crazy! I learned early on to really embrace change and enjoy the ride.”

She’s not exaggerating. Born in London, she moved every three or four years to a new country, sometimes in warzones (Saudi Arabia, India, Cyprus), with her Indian father, her German-Italian-Greek-Cypriot mother and her brother. After the family settled in Canada, she earned degrees in both international relations and television and radio studies, then embarked on the aforementioned UN gig before becoming a TV host and moving to L.A. to pursue acting. Read more »

Q&A: Victoria Beckham chats fashion and motherhood with our editor-in-chief in Vancouver

By | August 29th, 2012 | 10:00 am

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Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham is late. Not fashionably tardy. Not mildly delayed. She is a full two hours behind schedule. Cooling their Louboutin heels at a private luncheon at Holt Renfrew’s Vancouver store is an immaculately dressed group of top tier clients, some in chiffony Lanvin, a few poured into Beckham’s signature body-con shifts. Downstairs, fans have been gathering in a roped-off area near the cosmetics department since the doors opened at 10. They are hoping for a peek as Beckham poses for photographers on a podium. Her private jet touched down around noon, but a paperwork snafu has kept Beckham and her hair and makeup team frozen in some kind of cross-border limbo. The most annoyed? Her one-year-old daughter, Harper.
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On the cover: Newcomer Allison Williams talks about Girls, her famous family and saying no to nudity

By | June 25th, 2012 | 9:00 am

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FASHION Magazine | August 2012 | Allison Williams

Photographed by Seiji Fujimori. Styled by Tammy Eckenswiller.

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It’s 26 minutes and 11 seconds into the third episode of HBO’s Girls. A struggling writer named Hannah Horvath, played by the show’s 26-year-old creator/star, Lena Dunham, is in her bedroom staring at a laptop. She’s just endured the most hellish month of her adult life: Her parents have stopped paying her rent, her doctor has diagnosed her with HPV and her former college boyfriend has let her know that her “handsomeness” helped him realize his attraction to men.

Instead of having a breakdown, Hannah decides to throw down. She double clicks an MP3 of Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own,” jumps off her bed and swings her tattooed arms to the gunning beat. Her impeccably put-together roommate, Marnie, played by 24-year-old Allison Williams, catches Hannah’s impromptu dance party and joins in. Together in their tiny Brooklyn apartment they hair-flip the pain away, share a hug and make the tragic magic. The credits roll. Read more »

Q&A: 5 minutes with Audrey Blondin-Rocheleau

By | June 20th, 2012 | 2:00 pm

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Audrey Blondin-Rocheleau

Photography by Brian Ypperciel

You could say that beauty runs in the family of 17-year-old model Audrey Blondin-Rocheleau. The granddaughter of cosmetics magnate Lise Watier (who launched her beauty brand in 1972) stars in several fashion campaigns this summer, including Limité, Rad Hourani, Mimi & Coco and Parasuco. Beyond fashion, this wunderkind is prepping for medical school.

What was it like growing up as Lise Watier’s granddaughter?
“For me, she’s just my grandmother. She takes care of me, she cooks for me. She does what a grandmother does.” Read more »

Q&A: 5 minutes with Kathy Tran

By | June 18th, 2012 | 2:00 pm

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Kathy Tran

Photography: Tran by Emma McIntyre

When it comes to eyewear, Kathy Tran believes that one size doesn’t fit all. While completing her MBA, this Toronto-based designer conceived the idea of redefining fit in the eyewear market (think non-slip frames and indent-free cheeks). Her debut collection of Kaytran Eyewear (kaytran.com) features 20 reinvented classics.

What inspired you to launch an eyewear brand?
“I had been looking for years for eyewear that fit my Asian facial structure—I have a smaller nose bridge. I decided to design a collection that would offer a different fit. There are endless options for jeans to suit [various] body types—why should eyewear be any different?” Read more »

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