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Judging from spring’s lip-smacking lineup of candy-floss hues (peach at 3.1 Phillip Lim, lemon at Preen, mint at Louis Vuitton), now’s the time to indulge in something sweet. Update your lingerie drawer with pretty pastel pieces like this pink frosted bra ($35) from Triumph (triumph.com). Perfect for those who prefer a little sugar with their spice.

From Prada’s flame shoes to Marc Jacobs flapper girls, we’re giving you a sneak peek at what’s hot for Spring 2012. NEW YORK LONDON MILAN PARIS

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The final city of FASHION’s spring preview, Paris! We round up the highlights from fashion week in the city of love.

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We round up the best in show, best finale and top invitation designs of Milan fashion week.

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From hot spots to celebrity front-rowers, London fashion week was brimmed with hot designer collabs, florals and balloons!

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FASHION’s team shares the colour and drama from this season’s four-city fashion tour. First up, New York!

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Editor: Sarah Casselman

Manjy Sidoo’s magnum opus may be motherhood (she has two teenage boys with her hubby David, a former CFL player), but her philanthropic endeavours are a close second. She’s a director at the Sidoo Family Foundation and a board member of the Vancouver Opera (VO), which she joined 10 years ago for the Chanel Gala 2002 fundraiser. Today, she’s a regular participant in VO events (and one of the best-dressed, in her sweeping Oscar de la Renta gowns), such as Purseuasion Designer Bag Auction and Luncheon, and Overture, an onstage dinner she’s co-chairing this year. This intersection of art and fashion inspires her involvement. “Fashion is all around us. It’s hard for me not to have a heightened awareness of my aesthetic surrounding,” she says. “If I see a beautiful dress or antique or piece of art, I have a visceral reaction.”

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“There’s something extremely appealing about Jessica Stam’s red hair, electric blue eyes and red lips; they stand out against the white background,” says art director Maarten Sluyter, who joined FASHION in February 2011. “The lighting is so soft and fresh, like a Sunday morning when you’re just waking up and there’s no rush to get out of bed. It makes me think of Marilyn Monroe’s last photo shoot; Stam has captured that same feeling of desire and vulnerability. Because there’s very little fashion in this shot, it has a timeless quality. I could see this photo a hundred times and never get tired of it.”

By Jason Anderson.
Editor: Rani Sheen.

It was only recently that Shay Mitchell became someone who might get recognized by fans in public, so it’s understandable that she finds it all “a little weird.”

“Sometimes they’ll walk by you the first time and not say anything, but just stare at you,” says the star of Pretty Little Liars, a high school–set mystery series that’s swiftly become essential viewing for teens and a guilty pleasure for TV fans outside the demographic. “For a while I was thinking, ‘Do I have something on my face? Do I have toilet paper hanging off my shoe?’” she says. “It’s very flattering. I like to stop and chit-chat.”

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He’s no lady. Boy wonder Andrej Pejic brings his dry wit and supermodel moves to the top Canadian designs for spring.

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Read our interview »

ALWAYS IN FASHION
16 Fashionmagazine.com What’s going on online.
20 Letter from the editor
22 Contributors
24 Behind the scenes
26 Letters from our readers

FASHIONFILE
30  SPRING PREVIEW From New York to Paris, the FASHION team shares this season’s most buzz-worthy runway highlights.
38 JEWELLERY A jewelling duke and his sparkling works of art—a peek inside Verdura’s exclusive world.
42 FLASHPOINT From Vancouver to Montreal, party-goers showcase their personal style.
48  INVITATION Win FASHIONS’s cover dress by Canadian designer Lucian Matis.
50 LINGERIE A $2.5-million bra? Sarah Casselman comes cup to cup with this fantasy foundation garment at the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
54 RETROSPECTIVE Bernadette Morra travels to Russia to celebrate Max Mara’s 60th anniversary.

This month, we have devoted 16 pages to the extraordinary Bosnian-born Australian model Andrej Pejic, but there is still so much more to say. Pejic is a man who dresses like a woman—sometimes. However, he is not a cross-dresser in the way that some men dip into their wives’ panty drawers for a thrill. He is not a drag queen, like RuPaul, who routinely took three hours to transform from freckled Southern gentleman to seven-foot-tall glamazon in size 13 pumps. And he doesn’t like to say whether, like Chaz Bono, he is on his way to the other side.

So who is he?