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Did you know that Chanel owns a championship racehorse?
And they’re off! From Hermès’ start as a leather saddlery shop to the pageantry of England’s Royal Ascot, horses and high fashion share a long history together. And this weekend the pairing continues with the running of the Breeder’s Cup races in Kentucky. The favourite to win in tomorrow’s Mile race is Goldikova—a championship Thoroughbred who took first place the last three years, and oh, is owned by Chanel. Well, to be correct, she’s property of Wertheimer et Frère, the horse racing stable of brothers Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, who own the French fashion house. Could couture racing silks be next on the runway?
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FASHION Plates: Toronto Fashion Week essentials
By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter
Toronto Fashion Week unofficially kicks off today with what is sure to be a larger-than-luxe Greta Constantine spring show. What better way to prepare than to stock up on fashionable essentials from homegrown designers as well as from our favourite boutiques? We’ve got playful prints from Jeremy Laing, chic leather from Roots, and much more. Here’s our list of must-haves to get you through the week-plus of shows.
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PFW style snaps: We spotted Alexa Chung, Jessica Biel, Salma Hayek, and more outside Chloé and Stella McCartney
If you thought we’d somehow run out of ways to wow with our Parisian style snaps, you thought wrong. Today, we present 54 wows in the form of Alexa Chung, Jessica Biel, Salma Hayek, and a bunch of stunning accessory shots. Go ahead, wow it up.
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PFW diary: Our top picks from Stella McCartney, Giambattista Valli, Vanessa Bruno, Emanuel Ungaro, Chloé, and Yves Saint Laurent
With a thriving ready-to-wear brand, several collaboration projects on the go, four kids, a dashing hubby (publisher Alasdhair Willis) and an icon for a Dad (Sir Paul!) it’s little wonder we bow down to Stella McCartney. Who doesn’t want to be a Stella girl? She’s effortlessly chic but not perfectly turned out; she is a minimalist but has a playful side; she is confident and a great confidante. In the modeling world a Stella girl looks like Miranda Kerr, Natasha Poly, Natalia Vodianova, or Anja Rubik, fitting given that they all walked in McCartney’s Spring 2012 show. And what a show it was: crisp white jackets with mesh inserts, Baroque-inspired embellishment, a shockwave of royal blue, tunics with side slits (a big theme this week), casual pieces in a graphic wave motif reminiscent of silk pajamas, paisley (welcome back!), one-shouldered dresses, onyx-white clutches, sporty flatforms, and quilted shoulder bags tied in a bow.
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8 Canadian-based e-boutiques that will satisfy your shopping fix (and actually ship to your doorstep!)
By Allyssia Alleyne and Lauren Chan
Last Wednesday marked the launch of The Peacock Parade, the Canadian response to American flash-sale websites like Gilt Group. Though we’re itching to scour the site for deals, it’s by no means the only place to get your fashion fix online. Check out some of the best Canadian online shopping destinations. You may never schlep out to the mall again.
Address: thepeacockparade.com
Hometown: Toronto
Customers: Members of the flash-sale website; shoppers who love designer labels and home-grown Canadian brands.
Brands: High-end celeb favourites like Black Halo, Cynthia Rowley, Prada, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Bonus: Members can sample designer pieces created exclusively for the Peacock Parade, by renowned Canadian designer brands such as Jenny Bird, Biko Jewellery, C’est Jol!, and Claudia Accessories. -
Scalloped edges vs. sweater sets: Hannah MacGibbon out and Clare Waight Keller in at Chloé
It seems we can’t go a week without a changing of the guard at a major fashion label, and this morning that honour belonged to Chloé. With two consecutive tweets heard round the fashion world, the venerated French label announced that, after months of hushed murmurs, creative director Hannah MacGibbon was leaving the company.
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Fashion news: Hannah stays in the picture, Grace’s milestone, spritzers get their send-off
Chloé-philes, you can breathe easy: designer Hannah McGibbon is going nowhere for at least a year. [The Cut]
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PFW diary: It’s hip to be square at Chanel, YSL, Ungaro, Giambattista Valli, Stella McCartney and Chloé
“This is so confusing,” said the flummoxed woman beside me at Chanel. She later said that it was by the two-way traffic on the runway, but it just as easily could have been the abundance of silhouettes.
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Fashion obsession: Ballet chic (in three parts)
Blame Kanye’s short film Runaway, which put the spotlight squarely on a flock of ballerinas in black tutus, or Natalie Portman’s much-hyped turn as a scarily focused prima ballerina in Black Swan, but we’re currently obsessed with all things ballet-related.
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Fashion news: Tim Gunn is not a fan of Lady Gaga, Karl Lagerfeld to design an island and an YSL belt makes an appearance in a Chloe ad
Oops! Model Raquel Zimmerman appears in the Love, Chloé fragrance ad…wearing an Yves Saint Laurent belt. [Racked]
Tim Gunn has been on a roll lately. The Project Runway mentor voiced his discontent with Lady Gaga‘s s fashion choices to Yahoo’s OMG: “Who would want to emulate that? It’s not fashion. Those are costumes.” [Racked]
Karl Lagerfeld is designing a stand-alone island hotel off the coast of Dubai. Yes, an island. [Styleite]
Ralph Lauren has opened his first women’s flagship store this friday in a four-floor Madison Avenue mansion. [WWD]
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Paris notes: Structure and citrus at Stella McCartney, jumpsuits and peasant frills at YSL, and more [gallery]
Paris hasn’t offered up much tailoring for spring ’11. But Stella McCartney built her business on the structured jacket and she isn’t about to abandon what she knows best. Showing amid the opulence of the Opera Garnier, McCartney delivered a collection that hit all the top trends and more. There were soft printed dresses with […]
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