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Chloé-philes, you can breathe easy: designer Hannah McGibbon is going nowhere for at least a year. [The Cut]

By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter

Introducing the first in our new weekly feature, where we combine our love for pretty pictures and talent for delivering ultimate shopping picks. Each Tuesday, we’ll be gathering deliciously buyable products based on a common theme. First up: Toronto fashion week essentials! With the shows just around the corner and some shows already underway, now is the perfect time to indulge in some homegrown retail therapy. From household names like Roots to accessory artisans like Maryam Keyhani, here’s our list of Canadian can’t-live-withouts.

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There are many reasons why it is so much more enriching to be here in Paris seeing the fall 2011 collections firsthand, rather than simply viewing them on the web. Being alongside buyers and press from around the world puts everything in context.

By Corinne Perez-Abergel, Gillian Pryor and Renee Reardin Graffiti on handbags?  That’s so Vuitton 2001. Or the runway backdrop at Issey Miyake’s fall menswear show. Marc, what’s your next move? [Nymag] Like we weren’t already jealous. Now Patrick Demarchelier has shot six of the hottest models around, along with their beautiful men for the February […]

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The classic box bag is THE bag of the season, and with Celine and Hermès’ versions running upwards of $3,000, I’d be running, not walking, to pick up Zara’s stylish steal. ($50, Zara.com)

Phoebe Philo was awarded Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards today. The Celine designer was up against Christopher Kane and Erdem Moraliglu for the honour. Shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood took home the award for Accessory Designer, Patrick Grant of E. Tautz won for menswear, and Meadham Kirchoff for Emerging Talent. Naomi Campbell’s […]

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One of the biggest trends of this Paris runway season has nothing to do with the clothes. Veteran and novelty models have appeared at many shows: Yasmin Le Bon and Angela Lindvall at John Galliano, Amber Valletta, Stella Tennant and Gisele Bündchen at Balenciaga, Anna Dello Russo at Ungaro. But nowhere was the headline-grabbing model message stronger than at Jean Paul Gaultier, who opened and closed his show with the buxom Beth Ditto. The thing about putting larger women on the runway alongside regular models–it always makes the skinny girls look so wrong.

We’d like to direct your attention to the self-professed “gothic counterpoint to Tavi,” French wunderkind Charles Guislain. Though he doesn’t have a blog, his sense of style has turned enough heads to land him in Italian Vogue and turn him into a YouTube sensation. At 17, he says he is already tired of Europe: “I need to escape European life. I am a little bored with this now.” Le sigh! [The Cut]

Based on Kate Moss‘s street style and runway shows by the likes of Givenchy, Céline and Jean Paul Gaultier, this fashion forecaster believes we’ll all be wearing sheer black pantyhose come fall. [Telegraph]

Phoebe Philo’s second ready-to-wear outing for Celine was full of sleek navy, plum and moss-coloured pieces. Dresses and jackets had low-slung leather patch pockets. Standout pieces were leather and sheepskin cocoon coats, cutaway jackets and shirts, blouses with trailing scarves, and a pair of clustered-sequin pieces. Click the images below to read up on Viktor […]

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Phoebe Philo’s first collection for Celine recently arrived in stores and while many of the brand’s shops have closed worldwide, it looks Philo is spearheading a rethink of their boutiques to roll out next year. [Vogue UK]

Target is at it again with a fresh round of diffusion lines. Eugenia Kim’s designer hats will hit stores and the web on April 18. Cynthia Vincent’s limited edition shoe collection will also be available sometime in April, with a range of footwear from high heels to flats. [Fashionista]

These dove-grey, gently storming mornings in Paris feel softened by the rain. Trench coats replace leathers, standoffish editors lend umbrella cover, and when I get out of the damp and into a show, the place feels tingly with shared relief. I liked it–til I woke up today and found I had fallen way down the weather. Okay, a confession: the causes might not be all natural. I could be blamed, too, for living on macaroons & menthol lights in between vegetable-free meals. In a word, I feel ick. And if it were any other day, I’d have stayed under the covers and ordered in curry.

But today was Chanel day, and maybe I’m sick in more ways than one, but I genuinely felt I didn’t have a choice. Had to gloss over my head cold, put on major heels and a little gilt, and cab out to Le Grand Palais by 10:30 in the morning. Worth it? Beyond.