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From a Shawn Mendes documentary to an upcoming book by Emily Ratajkowski, here's everything that made headlines this week.

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How natural hair specialist Nancy Falaise is teaching young Canadian Black girls to love their respective hair textures.

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An official Friends cookbook is on the way, the 2020 Hot Docs Festival is now online, the Luminato Festival announced this year's virtual lineup, and more.

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Grey's Anatomy donated its medical gear to doctors fighting the coronavirus, the Cannes Film Festival was postponed, and more.

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When she was an Olympian playing field hockey in the 80s, filmmaker Phyllis Ellis estimates she applied baby powder on her body five times a day for about 15 years. Like many athletes, she would use the powder to freshen up after training or on her inner thighs to avoid rashes during a 10K run. […]

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The third annual iteration of Hot Docs’ Curious Minds Weekend speaker series, in collaboration with The Globe & Mail, takes place this weekend and as always, the line-up is impressive. “It’s been almost three years since we launched our inaugural speaker series and the world is no less crazy or confounding,” said Will Di Novi, […]

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When I was in my teens, nobody in my neighborhood laughed at Madonna. It didn’t matter if she wore something questionably sexy or ridiculous, you just didn’t play her. She experimented with designers and flirted with sartorial and political disaster all the time. She was not afraid to anger the fashion prudes—let alone the Pope. […]

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Meet the Advanced Style ladies »

Over the past few years, photographer Ari Seth Cohen has introduced us to the world’s finest dressers through his blog Advanced Style. The blog, focusing on stylish 50+ women, has become a treasure trove for those who think outside the box, breathing some much-needed fresh air into the often ageist fashion industry. It’s safe to say the blog’s been a hit, resulting in a hardcover, a colouring book, modeling campaigns for its subjects and now a full-length documentary. On Tuesday night, Advanced Style had its world premiere in Toronto as part of the Hoc Docs film festival and technical difficulties aside; it was a sight to behold. Following Cohen and his cohort of vibrant subjects, director Lina Plioplyte delves deep into the philosophy behind over-the-top dressing at any age.

A few hours before its debut, we sat down with four of the film’s fabulous subjects—Lynn Dell Cohen (a.k.a. “The Countess of Glamour”), Tziporah Salamon, Deborah Rappaport and Joyce Carpati—and learned a great deal about confidence, thrifting and talking over each other.

Photography by David Pike

Photography by David Pike

Photography by David Pike

Photography by David Pike

Photography by David Pike

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Advanced Style Tziporah Salamon

“I don’t do lady. That’s just not me. I appreciate lady but it just doesn’t work for me.”

—Tziporah Salamon

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Advanced Style Lynn Dell Cohen

“I think it’s in our DNA, and then we all get influence from our grandmothers and our mothers who encourage us to go in the direction of who we are.”

—Lynn Dell Cohen

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Advanced Style Joyce Carpati

“I love getting old, I want to be well but I think it’s a wonderful time of your life.”

—Joyce Carpati

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Advanced Style Deborah Rappaport

“I’ve been a recycler forever, I used to teach it, I did my masters degree in it”

—Deborah Rappaport

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Advanced Style Lina Plioplyte

these ladies have their distinctive styles and they don’t care what’s in fashion right now.”

—Lina Plioplyte, director

Yesterday was the longest day of the year and we’ll be taking full advantage of the late sunsets this weekend with visits to urban amusement parks and beaches, shopping for bijoux and a long-awaited album from a ’90s star.

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With designers like Marc Jacobs hiring 14-year-olds to walk in his shows, and young model Hailey Clauson’s racy photoshoots, the issue of underage models has never been more relevant. Enter Girl Model, the documentary by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon. After premiering at TIFF last year, the film has certainly gotten people talking .

Girl Model explores the dark depths of the underage modeling industry through the eyes of Siberian 13-year-old Nadya Vall who is taken to Tokyo on false pretenses and left to her own devices. And then there’s the disturbingly ambivalent model scout who found her, Ashley Arbaugh, who openly struggles with her feelings on the industry as she scours rural Russia for young girls.

In advance of the film opening at Hot Docs today (through Wednesday), we sat down with Sabin and sage/model Rachel Blais (she provides the most grounded voice in the film) to get their take on the underage modeling industry.

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