Meow! From United Bamboo’s conceptual calendar to Miu Miu and Victoria Beckham’s must-have kitty prints, cats are a trend that continue to infiltrate the fashion industry. So when Toronto-based advertising agency John St. released their “catvertising” video this week, we were on board—assuming, of course, that this means more fashion and feline collaborations are in [...]

By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter While flowers and chilly fall weather usually don’t go hand-in-hand, cooler temperatures won’t cause petals to fall from our wardrobes. Inspired by David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers exhibit at the ROM and looks from Mary Katrantzou and Jil Sander’s Fall 2011 collections, we put together a bouquet of fresh florals [...]

Word: Ailurophile Meaning: cat lover (in the swish Greek lexicon) Usage: “An ailurophile can’t be curious; she could never kill a cat.” ― a terrible joke I made up You should know it because: I don’t care what the Chinese calendar says, this was the year of the cat—in fashion, anyway. Cat-eye sunglasses (a la [...]

Everyone’s favourite cat fashion calendar is back for another year. United Bamboo‘s 2011 calendar is ready for pre-order for US$50. “I guess you could say that through my life changes and what was going on, I wanted to make some changes in my life and taking care of my health was one of them,” Crystal [...]

The first time I interviewed makeup artist Dick Page was in 2004. I had sent emails to him asking for a phone interview and assumed they had just gone into a black hole where requests from Canadian editors went to die. But while working late one night, my phone rang. When I answered, the voice [...]

By some adorable miracle, New York label United Bamboo has managed to get cats to wear mini versions of their clothes and pose for the company’s 2010 calendar. Our cats would enact some horrible revenge on our shoes if we ever committed such an atrocity, so kudos to you, United Bamboo. You can pre-order your [...]