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This way for the season’s best TV, books, music and more: FILM: Fate, Facebook and finances invade theatres this fall. BOOKS: Our fall book club from the cream of the crop of Canadian fiction femmes. MUSIC: The most fashionable bands, the most intriguing artists and the releases simply too big to ignore. TV: There’s plenty […]

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Chantel Simmons, the best-selling author of Stuck in Downward Dog, released her second novel, Love Struck, earlier this year. Lighthearted and fun, the beach read explores what happens when 27-year-old image consultant Poppy Ross discovers that her husband is having an affair. The catch? Before she gets a chance to confront him, he’s struck by lightning and loses his short-term memory, including any details of his philandering. With the opportunity to erase history, Poppy recreates herself in his mistress’s image, with hilarious—and sometimes disastrous—results.

Rebecca Tay checks in with the scribe, who was advised by a real-life image consulting firm Gift Shop Girls (giftshopgirls.com) while researching her book, and learns about why style icons and accessories are of paramount wardrobe importance.

I was in beautiful Brooklyn last weekend, feeling like a Real Live New Yorker for a story you’re going to see in our October issue. Turns out Brooklyn is REALLY REALLY big–a fact that somehow escaped me even though I’ve looked at it on that map thingy in the Manhattan subway a million times. Thank […]

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Recently listed on the Toronto Star’s 30 best dressed in Toronto list, it’s almost a surprise that photographer Caitlin Cronenberg’s (yes, daughter of film auteur David) debut book is strictly limited to people wearing nothing (or almost nothing) at all. The 134 photographs of Poser ($45, caitlincronenberg.com/poser) explore the connection between the lens and the […]

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by Valeria Nekhim If there’s a rule for books you tote to the beach or the cottage, it’s that they must be juicy. Running the gamut from wild Parisian escapades to accounts of college debauchery and stories of long lost love, here are six summer reading picks that fit the bill. Click the images below […]

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Writer and gent-about-town, Derek Blasberg, gives a tongue-in-cheek etiquette lesson (no sexting please!) in his book Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady. We caught up with Blasberg recently as he swung through Toronto for his book launch, thrown at The Room at the Bay’s Queen Street store.

What’s the rule regarding BlackBerry etiquette these days? Is it considered rude to e-chat at a dinner party?

“I don’t think we live in a world where it’s unacceptable to keep in touch with someone who is not present at an event. The point that I try to make in the book is that there’s nothing as important as speaking to someone in person. I think sometimes we forget that when we’re at dinner with a friend and you’re on your phone the whole time. Why don’t you just either have dinner with the person on the phone that you’re obviously more interested in or go home and hang out by yourself and keep in touch on the phone.”

One of the great tenets of public relations is a news story has more impact than an advertisement. But what of being featured in a reality TV show where you seem to be the only real person in a room of heavily-kohled eye-rollers playing make-believe with their careers? Well if you’re Kelly Cutrone, you stick […]

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If you’re headed on a break to escape the last dregs of winter, here are a few suggestions to keep you entertained on the flight:

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller ($17, HarperCollins) Rebecca Miller’s tale about a suburban trophy wife with a past came to the big screen last fall. The novel is a great quick read for a short haul trip.

To celebrate their 35 years in fashion, Canadian denim label Parasuco (parasuco.com) has produced a 200-page limited edition coffee table book featuring their Spring 2010 collection. Shot in lush Vietnam by Canadian photographer Raphael Mazzucco, it is available at Parasuco stores for, coincidently, $35.

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Ellen von Unwerth’s spanking-new Fräulein (out February, Taschen, $700) romps through 15 years of this model turned photog’s playground of the feminine. Shots of modern goddesses, from Kate to Britney to Dita, flit between light and fantastic or shadowy and noir. If you covet, don’t delay; only 1,500 copies, each signed by von Unwerth, are […]

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As Belgian designer Olivier Theyskens is currently without a fashion house (rumours of a partnership with Tory Burch’s ex notwithstanding), we’re going to have to content ourselves with his luscious new book, Olivier Theyskens: The Other Side of the Picture (US$120, Assouline). Filled with 150 illustrations and images–shot by French photographer Julien Claessens–and written with […]

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Last night, Prada held its first Toronto bash since the party for the opening of the Bloor Street location in 1997. It took the launch of a Prada book to warrant another celebration, and the delay only seemed to heighten the thrill. Devoted followers of fashion’s highest priestess, Miuccia, paid homage by arriving in her black lace sheaths, metal-coated wools, and this season’s studded shirts and shoes. But it wasn’t wall-to-wall Prada: Stacey Kimel, who was squiring around Marc Jacobs’ beau Lorenzo Martone, wore winged Balmain while Martone’s feet glowed in a pair of Louis Vuitton sneakers scribbled with Stephen Sprouse graffiti.