FASHION Magazine

It’s been a dizzying and hectic week at the Marché Bonsecours: shows, champagne cocktails (champs + raspberry puree = ecstasy!), and more shows.

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}

By Sarah Casselman

The Greta Constantine Spring 2009 show brought a packed house to Circa nightclub for a glimpse of the duo’s gorge, goddess-inspired gowns. The beefcake male models (think Speedos and less than one percent body fat) are just the icing on this no-cal cake.

Lovely in…Breezy boho attire

Spotted: Yonge and Bloor

Female vocalists like Emily Haines, Jenny Lewis and Deborah Harry are always tops on the best dressed lists I keep in my head. So maybe it’s not surprising that the girls I would crown most fashionable on Prince Edward Island are also rising stars in the Maritime indie music scene.

By Rebecca Voight

Paris is noisy, but Australian designer Martin Grant is so calm, cool and collected you might miss him. This is a man who knows where a woman’s waist is and he manages to highlight it in almost every silky dress.

By Rebecca Voight

Requiem’s design duo, Italian Rafaele Boriello and French/English Julien Desselle, are, along with Christophe Decarnin at Balmain and Giambattista Valli, Paris’s next big things. Inspired by christening dresses and Truman Capote’s 1966 Black and White Ball—in other words couture and dressy baby clothes—the show was full of desirables. Requiem’s elegant little dresses, especially the first one they showed featuring ruffles, mini pleats and puffy sleeves in white with a trompe l’oeil black vest, has just the right amount of delicacy.

By Rebecca Voight

Thursday began with Stella McCartney, and she has fantastic friends. The artists Dinos and Jake Chapman painted a bright collage of children and animals as the backdrop for her show. She also has three young children. I mention that because she doesn’t seem to be trailing nannies 24/7 and you have to wonder how she does it.

By Michelle Bilodeau

As we snuggle in for our long winter’s nap, FASHION has discovered a few great spots on the web to satisfy our clothing appetite during the cold months ahead.

By Rebecca Voight

It was a birthday special in Paris on Monday with Cacharel celebrating it’s 50th and Martin Margiela looking back on his 20-year design career.

A male roommate provides you with five key benefits: decor control, zero drama, towering entertainment systems, bathroom real estate and the bigger closet. For a clotheshorse like me, the latter is practically a godsend. When my roomie and I settled into our latest abode, the two closets in the far bedroom had my name all over them. However, a quick mental unpacking of all my garments had me at maximum capacity fast—too fast.

By Rebecca Voight

It’s blazing Indian summer in Paris, which poses a bit of a problem because the collections kicked off here this weekend.   But even a rare sunny day couldn’t keep me away from the Palais de Tokyo, Paris’s contemporary art happening space, where Gareth Pugh posed a series of neon poles for a futuristic show of light and dark with razor sharp tailored armor.

By Susie Sheffman

It’s a gorgeous, sunny day in Milan today as eds from all camps   trudge from show to showroom in the uniform du jour—the  shortest skirt or dress and the longest, leanest   legs you’ve ever seen this side of a runway. Bare, tanned, and made to look even longer and leaner by way of the “sandal boot”  (don’t even try to call it a shoe) that’s somewhere  between a heavy duty, open toe, cut-out ankle boot and a leg-wrapping  gladiator sandal. A fierce, fabulous hybrid with a tough, dominatrix edge, it has totally eclipsed the bag as the numero uno front-row accessory.

So far shoes on the runway have been big honkin’ platform wedges, but the week has just begun. Talk to me after Wednesday, shoe day in Milano!