fashionmagazine.com » Spring 2009

Vote: How will you wear spring’s graphics?

Jennifer Campbell — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:25:15 +0000

From stripes to grids to dots, the season’s biggest print story is graphic, graphic, graphic. How will you wear it? Vote now!

Video: Must-have shoes and bags

Sarah Casselman — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:15:28 +0000

Fashion market editor Sarah Casselman on the top trends in spring accessories (including a swoon-worthy pair of golden-girl YSLs). Click to watch Sarah’s latest video.

Vancouver: Eugene Choo pulls you out of the dregs of winter

Craig David Long — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:00:04 +0000

Is it just me, or do this year’s Boxing Day sales seem to be dragging on forever? What is it now, mid-February? And it wasn’t until a week ago that I started to see a significant decrease in 50 to 80 per cent off notices in my inbox. But I truly realized how desperate this [...]

Daily reads: We heart Liz Claiborne, Rome does not heart Giorgio Armani

Jennifer Campbell — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:33:37 +0000

We tend not to be overly effusive around here, but holy crumb do we ever love the new Liz Claiborne (that’s right) collection by our Valentine, Isaac Mizrahi. [Liz Claiborne, via Fashionista] The Rome fashion community is ticked at Giorgio Armani after he told the media they showed second-rate designers. [Reuters] Men will be channelling [...]

Toronto: Janet Hill, Eugenia and Nada Yousif

Sarah Nicole Prickett — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:10:00 +0000

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO} By Sarah Nicole Prickett At the Janet Hill show Friday, Ryerson fashion students rushed to fill the front row seats (likely vacated by too-tired journalists), self-consciously snapping photos of each other and wide-eyeing the cluster of real photogs at the end of the runway. Hill herself graduated from the program [...]

Toronto: Denis Gagnon

Sarah Casselman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:50:00 +0000

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO} By Sarah Casselman The final day at the tents was an air kissing, Peroni-sipping good time. Yours truly spent time in the sponsor lounge talking accessories (Hermès H bangles) and lingerie (think naughty and nice) with the Agent Provocateur PR rep, Elyn. Despite the long week, I felt energized and [...]

Mellinda-Mae Harlingten, Lucian Matis, Afshin Feiz

Sarah Nicole Prickett — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0000

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO} By Sarah Nicole Prickett Vancouver’s Mellinda-Mae Harlingten just showed her sixth season of cute ultra-basics, so someone must be buying them. They’re certainly wearable. For Spring 2009, key pieces included pale-hued slip dresses, slim pants and Bermudas in muted mauves and taupes and a couple of sharp olive-green jackets. Flared [...]

League of Lovers, Evan & Dean and more

Sarah Nicole Prickett — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:07:00 +0000

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO} By Sarah Nicole Prickett At League of Lovers and Thieves, a collaborative interplay between Toronto designers Sonja Den Elzen (Thieves) and Dana Kiyoko Takeda (League of Lovers), hearts were stolen with ease and grace. From the first strains of Sigur Rós and the first steps on those impossible shoes—carved-out blocks [...]