I’ve been picking up patriotic souvenirs all over the place, but I’ve started thinking that it might be a better strategy going forward (now that the Games are almost over…I’m shedding a tear here) to focus on items that I’ll still want to wear after March (and yes, before the 2012 Olympics in London). Here, the first of my Canadian-but-not-too-Canadian souvenirs that I’m betting will survive longer than my red mittens: Read the rest of this entry »
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Only in Canada, eh: Holt Renfrew has a Marc by Marc exclusive

Photography by Nicole Stafford
You know, it’s not very often we get any worldwide exclusives up north of the 49th, but Marc Jacobs has thrown us a bone with this adorable Marc by Marc Jacobs winter sports tee. (Is he getting into the Olympic spirit?) The T-shirt ($65) is 100 per cent exclusive to Holt Renfrew and it’s limited edition–i.e. get ‘em before they’re gone.
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Castor Reigns brings the lulz for fashion week

Fashion Week always requires a wardrobe strategy–dress, heels, statement something or other–but at some point, sore feet or simple exhaustion will win and you will pull out your flat boots and jeans. For that day, we like this set of LOL fashion tees ($25 each, castorreigns.com) from Castor Reigns, a newly launched Toronto design company. So far, the T-shirts are their only offering, but the company plans to offer handmade, limited edition wardrobe pieces in the near future.
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An ode to the shredded tee
Our fashion department has interns so bang-on stylish, they make Whitney Port look like an American Eagle greeter. One of these is my lovely friend Sarah Kosloff, who’s spent the last four months toiling behind the magic of editorial shoots. Though her days here are numbered, her talents are not. So, on Sarah Kosloff’s final day as a FASHION intern, I’d like to reveal one of her recent creative endeavours—a series of images she created for Show|OFF at UPC Boutique (128 1/2 Cumberland St., 416-929-9209, upcboutique.com). Read the rest of this entry »
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The French New Wave spends July at Cinematheque Ontario

Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless
When Stuart Murdoch, the sad singing Scotsman best known for fronting Belle and Sebastian, met his wife, he left her Breathless.
Says the New York Times Magazine: “As a courtship present, Murdoch made her a replica of the New York Herald Tribune T-shirt Seberg wore in the opening shot of Breathless.”
Cute, right? But then: “‘I may have also done that for an earlier girlfriend,’ Murdoch admitted sheepishly.”
Ah yes. How appropriate. Like Murdoch’s women, all fashionable lovers of French New Wave know the delight of discovering a genre made exactly, exquisitely, for them—the super-chic haircuts, the striped shirts and plaid minis, the smoky-eyed (and forever smoking) gamines—only to realize they’re just the latest suckers for the lovely clichés of Parisian art-house cinema.
But don’t let that stop you from falling: this summer, the Cinematheque at the AGO is screening gorgeous pics by Godard and his precocious coterie of peers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Your design here

Holt Renfrew is teaming up with California prepster-nouveau label Modern Amusement (modernamusement.com) for a little T-shirt design contest. It goes like this: You design a men’s or women’s tee (with logo, of course), Holts picks the top 30, the voting public picks the top 3 and Modern Amusement picks the winner, who wins a trip to L.A. and will have their design produced and sold at Holts. All the details are at holtrenfrew.com
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Daily reads: Beauty tees, pastel pants and a fashion throwdown

Even though it’s a season late, we desperately need this YSL-inspired tee from our favourite teenaged fashion blogger. [Style Rookie]
Giorgio Armani on our second favourite topic: pasta. “On Saturday night, I went to dinner at an Italian restaurant called Scarpetta with my niece Roberta and a small group of my close Italian friends. [...] I ate spaghetti con pomodoro and basilico — and, here, I must interject something for your benefit. Americans overcook their pasta. Always. And there’s too much sauce. Too much of everything! Please, try to control yourselves.” [NYTimes]
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Wear white, feel all right
For me, getting dressed in the morning involves asking myself some big questions. Are my grey J Brands clean? Is the Queen Street sidewalk covered in a mountain of slush and salt? (And just how waterproof are my moccasins?) Are sparrow feathers an appropriate hair accessory for the office? But on January 29, my morning routine will be a little bit simpler because I’ll be wearing white in support of Wear White 4 Windfall (ww4w.ca).
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Montreal: Three Monkeys has monumental style

If I tell you where I shop, will you promise not to tell anyone? I mean, nobody likes to tell her favourite spots, right? So let’s keep it between you and me—top-secret. I’m a mad, mad monkey for Three Monkeys (Les Cours Mont-Royal, 1455 Peel St., Suite 207, 514-284-1333, threemonkeys.ca)! This shop is so beyond perfect balance of Montreal based indie designer and international labels, it’s insane.



















