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“Waskawêwin is the Cree word for movement,” says Dusty LeGrande, founder of the Edmonton-based streetwear brand Mobilize. Fitting, then, that it’s a name given to a collection of pieces created under the label. But, as he notes, the brand’s name and philosophy “encompass more things than clothes.” LeGrande’s presence in community activism has taken on […]

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I started thinking about a fruit beer post in May, at the start of the summer and now…somehow it’s already August. Heartbreaking on one hand, but also the perfect time to stop and reflect on the sunny weeks we’ve had so far. In recent years, craft and micro breweries have elevated fruit beer into a […]

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My love affair with Edmonton started with…well, a love affair. Shortly after meeting my (now) husband in Toronto, he was relocated to Calgary and then Edmonton, his hometown, for a six month work stint. We spent those months criss-crossing the country to visit each other for long, romantic weekends. A third date spent watching the […]

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In Alberta, the summer season is short but the days are especially long (really—you’ll be watching the sun set well past 10:00 p.m. on the summer solstice). To make the most of it, weekdays and weekends in Edmonton and Calgary are jam-packed with warm-weather events and festivals of the art, design, and musical variety from […]

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When FASHION’s Alberta Editor Caroline Gault first met her husband, Mike, she was a 14 year old girl obsessed with young Leonardo DiCaprio, and he was a neighborhood teen driving a 1946 Ford while sporting a 6-inch mohawk. “I found him a little scary,” says Gault who clearly changed her opinion when the pair reconnected […]

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A photo posted by L’Abattoir Restaurant (@labattoir_van) on Jan 13, 2016 at 1:32pm PST We all know that the French are impressive. Lore would have you believe that French women don’t gain weight, everyone’s fashion sense is both effortless and chic, and duh, they invented champagne. One of the more quintessentially French cocktails is Kir. It’s […]

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Turning a spectacular corporate failure into a spectacular win for independent designers, Alberta’s nonprofit fashion organization, PARK, hosted its 10th PARKSHOW at the abandoned Target space at West Edmonton Mall on Saturday night. If you’ve forgotten about Canada’s dramatic break-up with the American retailer, here’s a refresher: In 2013, Target opened 133 locations across Canada […]

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Last Thursday night, for the second time ever, Edmonton threw its secret all white picnic, Dîner en Blanc, trading in last year’s torrential summer downpour in Louise McKinney Park for one chilly September evening in the heart of downtown Edmonton at Sir Winston Churchill Square. But if anyone was concerned about the un-summer-like temperatures, it […]

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We may have arrived a little late to the party, but we certainly had a fashionable debut. For the first time ever, the secret, all-white mystery picnic, Dîner en Blanc, landed in Edmonton. Made famous by the city of Paris 25 years ago (and now taking place in cities all over the world), the rain-or-shine event forged on honorably last night through what my waterlogged white dress can only inflate to a mid-summer deluge.

If it sounds like I’m complaining, I am (or was). After all, we had to go shopping for a head-to-toe white outfit, bring our own white tables and chairs, plateware, stemware, napkins and flatware. The food we packed in our white picnic baskets had to be gourmet. We had to leave work early! In the thunder and rain!

Sometimes, if you’re willing to put in a little bit of effort, you get something extraordinary. Equipped with all of the above, upwards of 1,200 people descended on Louise McKinney Park (the secret location is only revealed at the very last minute) and it was some kind of magical.

If the high cost of going to the spa is keeping you from enjoying frequent afternoons of relaxation, have we got news for you. WaySpa, the online spa marketplace, is back with another edition of Spa Week, running April 21-27, 2014. Think of Spa Week as Summerlicious for your mind, body and soul: luxury spas […]

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Last month, Alberta kicked off a month of fashion weeks and events around the world with its own fashion gathering, unlike any fashion gathering the province had seen before. Hosted at Latitude 53’s new downtown Edmonton location, Calgary’s PARK  (Promoting Artists, Redefining Kulture) debuted into new, northern territory.

For anyone who knows the history of the two cities, (hockey) rivalry is core to their relationship, but with FASHION as its official magazine sponsor, Edmonton’s fashion industry professionals—from designers, boutique owners, hair stylists and make-up artists, to photographers, bloggers, writers and media personalities—came together to mix and mingle with their local community and connect with their southern counterpart.

Calgary’s Jessie Li and Kara Chomistek, co-founders and producers of PARK, are looking to expand the organization’s reach and connect the fashion industry’s movers-and-shakers by hosting events throughout the province (and one day, they say, Canada). “The Edmonton fashion community has been incredibly supportive of what we’ve done in Calgary and we want to continue to build and develop the relationships between our two cities,” says Li. The two young producers, a chartered accountant and an engineer, respectively, co-founded PARK in 2008 as an effort to provide emerging artists and designers with greater opportunities to show and sell their works.

December is here and with it comes the inevitable wind chills and flurries. Brace yourself against such unpleasantries with a warehouse full of tights, a Russian love affair and a mug of Glühwein. From Montreal to Edmonton, here’s what we’re up to this weekend.

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