FASHION Magazine
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These Wearable Tech Devices Are Helping Combat Street Harassment
If wearables like FitBit track our steps and Apple Watch acts as an extension of our iPhones to help keep us organized, what stands at the intersection of technology and safety? A number of tech-preneurs are asking this, too, and responding to social and political conversations surrounding stories of street and sexual harassment with innovative […]
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We Did Our Fall/Winter Photoshoot in an Ice Cave. Here’s How We Pulled it Off.
Within minutes of lifting off the helipad, we leave the lush forested landscape around Whistler and fly over the Pemberton Icefield en route to our set. Today’s “studio” will be an ice cave that is located 1,300 metres up on a snow-capped peak in British Columbia’s Coast Mountain Range. We’re flying in two A-star helicopters […]
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Is There Any Way to Protect Your Information Online?
“You know, I could continue to waste my time responding to your dipshit nonsense, but I actually work for a living.… This will be the last time you take a dump on any one of my feeds. You’re not wanted here. (Now there’s a line I’m sure you’ve heard before.)” —January 26, 2017, 4:40 p.m. […]
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Are Clear Bags a Tool of the Surveillance State?
Our affinity for sharing our curated lives in URL seems to have migrated to IRL territory with the recent buzz about clear handbags. These totes, which are made of vinyl, are the analogue attempt to blur the private-public divide. You can have an Instagram-worthy still-life shot and then show off your perfectly curated life on […]
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How the Wild World of Animal Defence Mechanisms are Manifesting in Fall Fashion
Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life,” remarked Bill Cunningham, the legendary photographer who documented the sacred and profane of New York City street style until his death in 2016. His words seem all the more poignant in these unhinged times where fake news is abundant and senseless acts of violence, […]
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Why Are We so Obsessed With Cults Right Now?
As a child of the ’90s, I was first exposed to our collective train-wreck-like fascination with cults in the spring of 1997, when 39 members of Heaven’s Gate took their own lives in San Diego, believing it would get them onto an alien spacecraft. And growing up in Quebec, I’d often hear about the high-profile […]
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We Photographed Model Maartje Verhoef in an Ice Cave for Our October Cover
When I ask Maartje Verhoef how she ended up in modelling, she gives the exact response you’d expect from a five-foot-10.5-inch doe-eyed Dutch beauty: “I’m really lucky—it all just kind of happened to me.” You may never have read Verhoef’s bio, but this small-town-standout-turned-international supermodel story is one you’ll likely recognize. “A friend of mine […]
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