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The hotel bar is a bastion of old-school glamour, so we jumped on the chance to take our patio-ing up a notch last week at the Intercontinental’s SkyLounge, which opened with a splash on a glorious 24-degree evening, and not a moment too soon. Its sleek low loungers were filled with sun-deprived Toronto media faces, such as Jian Ghomeshi and Anne Mroczkowski, who nibbled delicious bites from Signatures restaurant and sipped the signature cocktail; Ernestine’s Elixir, with Hpnotiq, lychee liqueur and cran—$1 from each one sold will go to Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter. Providing a suitably sophisticated soundtrack (complete with harp) were students from the Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School, who will be strumming their stuff on the patio throughout the summer. We know what we’ll be doing at 5.02 p.m. on Thursdays…

Snaps from the party after the jump.

Knowing not a word of Spanish, I assumed the gilded words “El Hangar” on the Mango gala invite meant the whole glittering shindig would go down in a Barcelona airport hangar.

Not quite: the location of the Oscar party (that would be the jury chairman and too-charming host of this year’s El Botón-Mango Fashion Awards, Oscar de la Renta, not the little gold man) was in Mango’s BCN headquarters. To fete the second incarnation of the awards, the warehouse was transformed into an amber-lit hive of fast-fashion festivity, all champers and ciggies and swift kisses on both cheeks. The international jet set was in full force, so in that respect it was a sort of hangar, after all (and never mind all the overbronzed hangers-on).

There’s no better way to celebrate the slightly warmer weather than with the reopening of two of our favourite high-enders on Bloor Street. First off was Gucci (130 Bloor St. W., 416-963-5127), where revellers sipped champagne cocktails and mingled among the mass amounts of haute accessories. (We couldn’t get over the flats made for the tiniest of tots). The new store is all luxe.

Girls on film: Canadian model Coco Rocha, in head-to-toe Greta Constantine (fall, of course), sent flash bulbs into a frenzy on King Street on Thursday night when she arrived at the Women X Women party, held at the future home of the Fashion House condos. (One photographer even joked with the new redhead that she was looking better than Ms. Jolie.)

On Monday night, Holt Renfrew hosted their media/VIP cocktail party, always the kickoff to Toronto Fashion Week. The gotta-get-an-invite party has long been held in the first floor handbag section, but this season, they moved the festivities up to the new third-floor contemporary space. The other change was a mini runway presentation featuring five Canadian […]

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A great ending to Montreal Fashion Week: Denis Gagnon’s runway show and after-party at the Fullum & Holt factory last Thursday! After regaining consciousness from the hypnotic and impressive fashion show (read all about it on Shirine’s blog), people woke up slowly to tunes mixed by Thomas Von Party while greeting friends and acquaintances on the temporary catwalk that crossed the factory.

While we normally sit at home all dolled up in our finest dress and heels to watch the Oscars, (what? We’re sure we’re not alone!), we couldn’t pass on the 1st annual To Oscar with LOVE charity dinner at the Eglinton Grand.

The Drake was the place to be last week (seriously though, when isn’t it?), as the hotel celebrated its 5th anniversary.

Melissa Trainor and Niki Trosky are two local ladies who really know how to throw a party.

Apologies, dear Styled West readers: I know it has been nearly a month since my last blog entry, but as you’ll see over the next few pages, my time has been well spent wining and dining, brushing shoulders with the who’s who of Vancouver, and of course, shopping—all so I can report back to you. […]

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The theme was Town and Country, but the night started off with a good old-fashioned scavenger hunt. Before the party, our team of four headed to the Roots store on Bloor to pick up our entrée to the evening—a striped scarf or pom pom hat. Next it was off to a semi-secret location, the Roots store in Rosedale (surprise!). Those smarty-pants Society girls picked the perfect venue for a little upper-crust-at-the-cottage evening—the shop was all plaids, cozy furniture and piles of birch logs.

Fashion Royalty by Heather Loney

The season of power shopping and parties has begun.  For those who panic at the thought of entering a mall anytime after November 1, there is a chic new way to complete your holiday shopping and socializing—enter the local art gallery.