FASHION Magazine

It’s best to ease your way out of the holidays. After a week of eating nothing but comfort food, being hustled between endless family gatherings and feeling very squeezed in at Boxing Week sales, we could all use a mini-vacation before heading back to work. However, considering most of us are already back at our desks, it’s time to find relaxation in other ways, such as lavender. As a plant, lavender is known for its calming, restorative properties. So why not transfer a little bit of that relaxation onto your nails with a soothing lavender ombré manicure?

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Happy New Year! There’s a definite sparkly obsession happing in the halls of FASHION this week—and what better way to ring in 2012 than with a glitter-packed manicure? From frosty-blue glitters to a multi-dimensional Texas-inspired mani, these sparkling designs will keep the focus on your fingers even after the ball drops. The countdown to midnight is on—and it’s time to start painting! Show (or tell) us all about your New Year’s manicures on Facebook or Twitter.

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The eccentric American artist Mark Rothko changed the art world in the ’40s and ’50s with his abstract expressionist art. His signature style of rectangles in fields of colour has had a major impact on the colour-blocking trend that dominated the runways this past spring and continues to be seen everywhere for fall. With the recent Canadian premiere of Red, a Tony Award–winning play that lets us in on the life of the artist, here’s our guide on how to become a walking piece of Rothko art.

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By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter

When we hear the old ditty “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” we’re not exactly thinking Christmas. More likely, we’re dreaming of fashion week. Well, friends, the time has come for New York to take the first turn for Spring 2012. What to wear? Do? See? With those pressing questions in mind, we present our foolproof guide to everything in-between attending wham-bam shows from the likes of Proenza Schouler, Alexander Wang, Michael Kors, and DVF. Checking the shows out from the comfort of your own home? Have no fear, we’ll be bringing you the best from the runway, backstage beauty, and street style daily!

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Of course, we’re all dying to know the designer of Kate’s dress, but Kate’s look on her wedding day is about so much more than the dress she chooses⎯beauty is a big part of the equation. Make like Kate and nail it with these royally and wedding day themed polishes, perfect for a little DIY mani-pedi while watching the ceremony.

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Even by our own standards, nail frenzy at the FASHION offices has reached a new high with the sudden mania for the half-moon manicure. This polish option, where the curve at the bottom of the nail is painted a different colour, was popular in the 1940s and has seen a resurgence in recent years as a favourite of Dita Von Teese and as a runway staple at shows for Ruffian, Vena Cava, Thakoon and Christian Dior.

Last night, we gathered at Tips Nail Bar (844a Danforth Ave., 416-405-8477) for an office baby shower and were introduced to a take on the moon that incorporates another big nail trend: Glitter.

I have no self-control: Essie’s Fall 2010 nail polish collection ($10 each, essie.com) has landed on my desk and even though I know it’s amazing range of chocolate brown, grey violet and velvet purple hues won’t be available until the beginning of September, I have to talk about it. Right. Now. Especially about the smoky […]

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Burberry is launching a 30-piece April Showers collection this month to keep customers shopping until the first fall 2010 deliveries hit stores in June, and providing items that are apropos to April: trench coats, rain boots and umbrellas. [Coutorture]

If Fashion’s Night Out had a slogan, it would be bigger is better, because that’s where the organizers’ heads are at. The event will supposedly be the biggest fashion show ever put on in New York, with 200 models walking, with 1,500 seats for oglers. [Fashionista]

Nail polish specialist Essie has been bought by L’Oréal USA, who has plans to expand the brand into cosmetics and eventually bring it to the mass market. [WWD]