FASHION Magazine
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From the FASHION Archives: The Uncanny Prescience of Yves Saint Laurent From the Winter 1982 Issue
Since its launch in 1977, FASHION magazine has been giving Canadian readers in-depth reports on the industry’s most influential figures and expert takes on the worlds of fashion, beauty and style. In this series, we explore the depths of our archive to bring you some of the best fashion features we’ve ever published. This story, originally […]
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David Livingstone: Social Media Tributes to the Former Men’s FASHION Editor
We were devastated to learn our dear friend and colleague David Livingstone, the former Editor-in-Chief of Men’s FASHION passed away April 20, 2017 at his apartment in Toronto. He was 69. David was a gifted writer and colourful character with a sharp, caustic tongue. He was well-loved in Canadian media circles, and while it might […]
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Remembering Former Men’s FASHION Editor-in-chief David Livingstone
David Livingstone might have moved to Toronto from Cape Breton, N.S., as a teenager, but he never lost his analytical outsider view on his adoptive hometown and the fashion beat he would cover for more than 30 years. One of Canada’s most respected writers and editors, David passed away at his Toronto home on April […]
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31 shots from the Men’s FASHION Born to be Blue TIFF party, featuring the always dreamy Ethan Hawke
A buzzy, attractive crowd turned out in their finest to celebrate the TIFF premiere of Born to be Blue at an after-party hosted by Men’s FASHION at The Citizen on King Street West. This new cinematic take on the late, legendary—though tragic—jazz trumpeter Chet Baker stars Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) as Baker and Carmen Ejogo (Selma), […]
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On the Bee-List: Jewellery lovers gather to fete Maison Birks’ 135th Anniversary Gala
See the shots from Birks 135th Anniversary Gala » When you’re turning 135, it’s high time to roll out the red carpet or, in the case of Maison Birks, the blue carpet. The iconic Canadian jewellery house took over Toronto’s Shangri-La hotel Saturday evening for a celebratory birthday dinner in support of honeybee research and preservation. […]
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Celebrating 35 years: FASHION editor-in-chief Bernadette Morra sits down with the magazine’s first editor-in-chief John MacKay to discuss the differences between then and now
Back in the 1970s,Toronto Life magazine began to experiment with supplements about food and men’s and women’s fashion as a way of generating more advertising dollars. These looked like separate magazines, with their own covers, but they were stapled or bound into Toronto Life. FASHION became the first supplement to spin-off into a separate magazine. Current editor-in-chief Bernadette Morra sits down with FASHION’s first editor-in-chief, John MacKay, who now runs his own fashion and beauty publicity and marketing firm, MacKay & Co., to talk about some of the differences between then and now.
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MON dieu! Industry insiders share their most memorable Jean Paul Gaultier moments
Photography by Peter Stigter
“I always think of Gaultier in terms of the colours he used early on, relishing his lurid shades of green, yellow and brown. I’ve enjoyed his references to French culture—pulpy policiers or Yvette Horner, the accordéoniste–and always thought of his palette as a tribute to the tobacco-stained walls of Paris dives.” —David Livingstone, Writer
