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Showing at New York Fashion week for the first time must be hugely satisfying for a young designer. But debuting after a few seasons of ups and downs is even better. “We learned the importance of perseverance,” said Toronto’s Parris Gordon this week at The Standard Hotel, where she and sister Chloe unveiled Beaufille Fall […]

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If winter has given you a serious case of the wardrobe IDGAFs, today’s batch of street style should inspire at least a bit of creativity. Photographed last month on the blustery streets of Toronto, 12 stylish ladies embrace everything from cozy wraps to faux fur, showing that a good ole winter coat doesn’t have to […]

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Now that World MasterCard Fashion Week has come to a close, we’re sharing some of the collections you didn’t see on the runway, beginning with one of my personal favourites: Beaufille. The Toronto-based label run by sisters Chloe and Parris Gordon has been a fixture at the shows for the past few seasons, but this […]

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If there were ever an excuse to wear Canadian, it was Saturday’s second annual Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards (CAFA), which took Toronto’s swanky Fairmont Royal York hotel by literal storm. In the thick of Hollywood’s awards season, the CAFAs were probably as close to the Oscars as anything we’ll ever attend, with homegrown designers […]

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It’s always a good day when a designer collaboration is announced, but when that partnership is all-Canadian, it’s twice as nice. In today’s news, two of our favourite labels, Smythe and Beaufille, have announced a limited-edition one-piece collaboration: a Spring 2015 smoking jacket. The tuxedo topper is the perfect blend of the two labels, featuring […]

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It was a busy start to World Mastercard Fashion Week in Toronto on Monday. Not to be outdone by a show-packed schedule, the trio behind promo team The Collections threw an opening night party at Soho House. Drawing their usual west end crowd, cool kids in toques, cornrows and dark lips filled the elegant space with attitude to spare. The company’s troupe of represented designers including Beaufille’s Chloe and Parris Gordon, Sid Neigum and Thomas Balint’s Michael Thomas all came by to toast the week ahead. Photographer Renata Kaveh went for early spring megawatt, opting for head-to-toe white. Meanwhile, several fresh-off-the-runway models infiltrated with glass cutting cheekbones.

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Chloé and Parris Gordon may have swapped their collection’s name, but its cool chick message was just as strong as ever last night at the Beaufille Spring 2014 debut during World MasterCard Fashion Week in Toronto. Using the word “renaissance” to describe their brand’s rebirth as well as a period of reference, the collection blended old-world richness (think teeny chain links and custom print silk patterns) with the slinky styling of a Scarface Michelle Pfeiffer alongside a live set by local psych garage rock band, Shakinghands.

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Amidst the homegrown talent, one very cool and far away brand will be making its Canadian runway debut next week during World MasterCard Fashion Week in Toronto. JNBY (Just Naturally Be Yourself) is big in Japan…and Thailand and Singapore and France as well as China, where it hails from. A week before its reveal at fashion week (and we’ll save the oohs and aahs till then), JNBY previewed its Spring 2014 collection to an ultra trendy crowd at a pre-fashion week party hosted by The Collections. The stellar clothes were shown alongside a large photo print by Cory VanderPloeg of a model wearing Laura Siegel‘s spring collection..

Regular scenesters like Amina Said, Sarah Magwood, Parris Gordon, Jay Strut and The Collections threesome Dwayne Kennedy, Mel Ashcroft and Brian Richards lined the walls as well as fresh faced models in Miley buns and off duty sweaters. As with any cool kid party, there were plenty of new faces to creep in true Cinderella form. We’d like to crown a new style princess, but we don’t know her name. You! Got the other glass slipper?

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The dreamy, artsy girl we usually see on Chloé Comme Parris runways showed her tougher, ennui-filled side for Fall 2013 at World Mastercard Fashion Week, slouching aggressively out to the sounds of Nirvana’s “All Apologies.” Nineties grunge reappeared in international Spring 2013 collections and continues to fly its flag into fall with Hedi Slimane’s all too faithful interpretation for Saint Laurent Paris (most of the fashion media wasn’t having it but it gave Courtney Love “gasms” and reminded her of Value Village).

Here, under-25 Toronto sisters Chloé and Parris Gordon applied their own richly detailed aesthetic to classic signifiers like check shirts wrapped around the waists of slips: their dresses are beautifully cut in silk and feature custom 19th century Arts & Crafts-influenced prints (the Gordons’ mom is an enthusiast of the era). Adding to the feeling of rebellious, seething youth were crop tops, patterned thigh-highs, tough leather, army overcoats, vests layered over sheer tunics layered over cropped pants, and dresses slashed across the chest and held together with what looked like metal body piercings.

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The twisted sisters behind favourite Toronto-label Chloé Comme Parris were back with a decidedly sunny disposition for Spring 2013, deep diving into California culture last night with their latest show at Toronto Fashion Week. Chloé and Parris Gordon prove their envious skills season after season (need an age refresher? They’re just 24 and 22 respectively), and this time around it was no different.

Opening with the CCP take on the three-piece suit (think neutral-on-neutral and a button-up to boot), the 23-look collection flowed from one to the next with soft shades, airy layers and floral watercolour prints. The duo’s signature double-layer effect was as well done on a navy shirtdress as it was a short pair of slit leather shorts. The piece de resistance, however, was a pale pink motorcycle jacket that featured a thin elastic strap through the back. (Maybe you’d never actually tie a motorcycle jacket up, but hey, it sure looks modern).

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Last night, the sister duo behind one of fashion’s darling labels, Rodarte, descended upon Toronto for a fête in their honour at the Bay’s glittering designer den, The Room. As the finest champagne flowed, the city’s finest, freshly sunned partygoers crowded around Laura and Kate Mulleavy to get a look—albeit a look-but-don’t-touch. “You can’t just sidle up beside them and say, ‘I love you,’” one guest lamented. And isn’t it strange but true? The moment one of your idols is presented on a platter, the nerves tend to overcome. Such wasn’t the case, however, for Toronto’s version of the sister power duo, Chloé and Parris Gordon of Chloé Comme Parris, who got in there to articulate their crush. (I was afforded a private one-on-two with the designers earlier in the day, the gush-laden results of which are forthcoming).

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I’m a fan of any fashion show that starts off with the Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs.” Combo that tune-age with yet another stellar collection from one of the city’s most promising labels, and well, I think you’ve got a winner. Such was the case at Chloé Comme Parris’s fall showing yesterday, as the sister duo churned out a 1990s-meets-1890s outing of snakelike cigarette pants, elongated moto-cross jackets bedazzled with heavy silver nobs, and loosely tailored suiting. There was fur too, and it felt delicate alongside moody silk Liberty-esque prints on spaghetti dresses, pleated skirts and camisoles. Quite like a Venus in furs, wouldn’t you say?