FASHION Magazine

It was a big night for Canada. In one part of town, cliché-spitting Canadiana pirouetted on the ice at the premiere of Score: A Hockey Musical. Meanwhile a little uptown, the regiment of well-heeled Canucks congregated for a quieter–but equally proud–celebration of Canadian imagery for RED, a preview exhibition of twelve images from the New York Times Canadian Photo Archive.

Caitlin Cronenberg, photographer and daughter of film auteur David Cronenberg, made her curatorial debut for the exhibit, which was held at the Toro After Dark space. The daunting task required Cronenberg to look through thousands of archive photographs to select twelve to display. The younger Cronenberg based her decisions on emotional response and the stories they tell. “These photos are news stories and it’s the stories that make them special,” she said.

A party at Holt Renfrew in honour of shoes and a fashion blogger almost sounds too cliché to be true. It probably would be if Holt Renfrew couldn’t pull that kind of thing off (which they did) and if the attendees weren’t suckers for shoes (which we are).

To fete the 25th anniversary of it’s Shaper hairspray, Sebastian Professional threw a party for stylists and clients on the back lot of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. We may have been partying on the West Coast, but we were surrounded by a New York-style set. (Imagine Synecdoche, New York meets Christina Aguilera’s “Can’t Hold Us Down” video—eerily still buildings with people dancing in the streets.)

Aguilera would’ve blended right into this crowd. There was some major hair on display by the guests: fake blonde strands so healthy that I imagine the owner going in for daily keratin treatments, and men with locks so artfully dishevelled that I picture them getting ready in a room walled with mirrors in order to be sure each wisp is perfectly placed.

The Bay opened the doors of their transformed home of high fashion, The Room, on Wednesday night for a party at their Queen Street location in Toronto. Models Daria Werbowy and Jessica Stam, designers Erdem, Jeremy Laing, Kimberley Newport-Mimran, Lida Baday (it goes on), socials Stacy Kimel and Victoria Webster all packed the massive third floor space to check out one of the most highly-anticipated retail unveiling in recent memory.