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When your first sight is a quartet of male models in shiny trunks, fake tattoos and sandals paired with work socks (toes and heels excised for summer) posing by a pool spanned by Grecian columns, you know you’re at a Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill production. The pair, known best for their women’s line, Greta Constantine, decided to throw a party to officially launch their menswear effort Ezra Constantine.

Putting stickers on your laptop is never a good idea. They inevitably begin to peel off and then the employees at the Mac Store Genius Bar always raise an eyebrow at the grey sticky residue polluting the shell of your Macbook when all you really wanted was a functioning track pad. In a series of […]

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When Solange Knowles tells you to “Stop Twittering, put away your phones and dance,” you do. Ms. Knowles, who actually uses far choicer, more imperative words, is spinning Michael Jackson for a crowd that, by and large, is surrounding her older sister with an amphitheatre of phone cameras for Twitpic-ing purposes. The older sister in […]

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Last night, in a packed ballroom at the Hotel Le Meurice, Viktor & Rolf celebrated the 5th birthday of their Flowerbomb fragrance with a surprise performance by Grace Jones. The 61-year-old diva opened with “La Vie En Rose” against a backdrop of, you guessed it, roses. Read more from Paris Fashion Week Fall 2010

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On Friday morning we trekked out to Plutino Groups gorgeous loft offices to shoot an interview with London’s designer of the moment, Winnipeg native Mark Fast. We also got to see a few pieces from his upcoming lower-priced line, Faster (which we can’t share yet), and check out some complicated knit creations from his Spring […]

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On Wednesday night, Bloor Street threw it’s massive annual fundraising effort for the Canadian Foundation for Aids Research (CANFAR). To reach their $400,000 goal, Bloor Street Entertains turns boutiques all over Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood in pop-up restos catered by the city’s top chefs. Marc Thuet, Jamie Kennedy and Blu’s Massimo Collavani were just a few […]

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Try hosting a swinging little holiday cinq-a-sept: With the best advice from our experts, here’s how to nosh, toast and properly fête 12 of your nearest and dearest this season. Click the images below for expert tips, stylish decor, recipes and more. EAT Cranberry canapés, lollipop hors d’oeuvres and chic ways to serve. DRINK Swish […]

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The first annual Frocktail Party combined cocktails and competitive shopping, with all proceeds going to fund juvenile diabetes research. Held in Toronto this past Thursday, the sold-out event saw women showing up to bid on more than 80 pre-loved dresses and accessories, and men following in their wake to see the Shark Week behavior of the bidding babes.

While tastes varied, all Frocktailees agreed that with 100 per cent of the nights profits going to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation—the night was organized by a group of young ladies who had seen their friend Vanessa Oliver deal with the daily realities of living with juvenile diabetes—there was no guilt involved in splurging. See photos from the party after the jump.

Lovely in…cruise-inspired party wear

Spotted: Booby Ball 8

Ahoy, ladies! FASHION hit the high seas on Friday at the Booby Ball, a fundraiser in support of Rethink Breast Cancer, and reeled in some charitably-mined Lovelies.

Check out a gallery of our favourite looks, after the jump

When: Thursday September 10, 2009
Where: Harry Rosen store, Yorkville

Once upon a time I would have called this a ‘sausage party,’ but post-Apatow, we use the sophisticated term ‘bro-mance.’ And such describesthe Harry Rosen TIFF-inspired Evening with Steve Nash. Held atop the famed mens merchandiser’s flagship Yorkville location, on a terrace overlooking a TIFF ground zero that featured a ticketed blue Lamborghini, Porsches and throngs of celeb-stalkers. This is the stuff of TIFF frivolity: intimate parties in little-known locales, cool tunes, nice clothes, great weather and hell, even a homegrown celeb or two.

Last night’s party at the Bloor Street Holt Renfrew had all the makings of your prototypical Toronto fashion shindig. Leesa Butler? Check. Greta Constantine? Check. Canapes and Peroni? Check and check. The big difference was the presence of one Scott Schuman, better known to you as the photog behind the street fashion blog, The Sartorialist.

This past Thursday, FASHION went Powerballin’ at the Power Plant’s 11th annual “original contemporary art party,” the Power Ball. Co-chaired by Cleophee Eaton, Michael Cooper and Queen West gallery guy Clint Roenisch, the trailer-trash bash was as much about raising hell as raising funds. Design duo du jour Castor hauled in their high-kitsch Winnebago and–what swine flu?–a real, live-looking pig roast. Next door, art (and bar) star Dean Baldwin slung vodka and Kool-Aid to the likes of Drake Hotel-ier Jeff Stober. In the “video outhouse,” scandalous “private parties” became less so, as they were broadcast to the big screen inside; other projections included “Mad Max” and a “Conceptual Art soft porn peep show.”