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Destination dressing: Our must-have wardrobe picks for summer travelling
From preppy seaside villages to the most eclectic locales, these hot spots inspire us to dress the part.
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TFW backstage beauty: Pink Tartan
Topknots⎯the unofficial hairstyle of last summer⎯are alive and kickin’. It’s perched high on the head of the Pink Tartan lady for fall 2011 to be exact. “There’s lots of military pieces, so we wanted a hard/soft aspect to the woman,” explained L’Oreal Paris’ Lead Hair Artist Eric del Monaco. After spritzing hair with water, he made a high pony, split it into two sections and twisted one into a loop and wrapped the other one around the base. Creative director Veronica Chu called the style “organized chaos” saying it was “contained and controlled”. Surely the inescapable mist of Elnett that seemed to hang in a cloud over the area ensured that. Lead Makeup Artist Eddie Malter gave models a hard edge with a dramatic dark eye done in black shadow that extended out and was purposely done not to look “clean” and avoided mascara altogether. He used his backstage MVP product, Wear Infinite Eye Shadow in “Morning Light” to add highlights down the nose and on cheekbones and took down brows and lips with a bit of concealer. The final touch was gloss added to the lids right before the girls took to the runway.
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TFW diary: Pitch-perfect covetability at Pink Tartan
Like any good Mimran, Kim Newport truly understands the business of fashion. Always just trendy enough to get the shopping list fantasizing going, but never so much so that she’s off on a limb in the discount bin. Albeit a little derivative of Proenza Schouler’s spring 2008 and/or spring 2010 collections, Pink Tartan’s fall offering was nothing short of pitch-perfect covetability. Part updated-military, part festooned dancer, the show included a series of standouts like the belted utility vests and relaxed button downs over ostrich skirts, the cable knits and a large army printed ballgown. Backstage, Newport called it “couturitarian”. We call it “yes, please!”
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FASHION plates: Toronto fashion week essentials
By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter
Introducing the first in our new weekly feature, where we combine our love for pretty pictures and talent for delivering ultimate shopping picks. Each Tuesday, we’ll be gathering deliciously buyable products based on a common theme. First up: Toronto fashion week essentials! With the shows just around the corner and some shows already underway, now is the perfect time to indulge in some homegrown retail therapy. From household names like Roots to accessory artisans like Maryam Keyhani, here’s our list of Canadian can’t-live-withouts.
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Beauty notes: High voltage at Pink Tartan
By Andrea Victory
The ’60s are back, and at Pink Tartan they are electric. Citing a 1969 edition of Harper’s Bazaar as her inspiration, Kimberley Newport-Mimran also handed it to official makeup artist for L’Oréal Paris, Eddie Malter, for beauty direction. He created a perfectly blended, modern, Twiggy-esque look applying an array of High Intensity Pigments in shades of green varying from chartreuse to soft forest, then blended black along the crease for a ’60s effect. Individual lashes on the lower lash line and a full strip on top kept the look “on trend for spring.”
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Toronto Fashion Week: Pink Tartan’s Electric Ladyland
Despite the grey fall skies, it seems things are looking bright for Pink Tartan. With a flagship store (their first!) set to open this November and a Spring 2011 collection filled with electric hues (hot pink! acid yellow! royal blue!), PT is living the life in Technicolor. Known for her ladylike looks, designer Kimberley Newport-Mimran chose to take a different direction this season–one leading back to the ’70s with a Bianca Jagger–inspired lineup of wide-leg trousers, tux-bf jacket hybrids, metallic sheen blazers and sexy sheer billowy blouses. While the horse bit accents felt a little been-there-bought-that-at-Gucci, the diaphanous tiered prairie skirts felt as fresh as a summer’s day. The item to update your spring wardrobe: the sleeveless military trench coat.
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Holt Renfrew opens fashion week with an all-Canadian runway show
It takes a certain amount of guts to co-opt Diana Vreeland’s famous line, “Pink is the navy blue of India.” Holt Renfrew turned that on its ear at last night’s LG Fashion Week opener, casting magenta–their signature shade–to fill that role in Canada. Well it was, at least for the night, when the luxury department store brought nine designers from their stable of homegrown talent to the runway. It was a blockbuster ticket that included five looks each from Jeremy Laing, Lida Baday, Line, Pink Tartan, jacket specialists Smythe, glamour veteran Wayne Clark, Mikhael Kale, menswear label Wings + Horns and Montreal designer Denis Gagnon. With a few of the designers, it was a bit of an appetizer–Pink Tartan and Line show tonight and Gagnon presents on Friday–but the show also served as a crib sheet for some of our country’s brightest fashion lights (and a handy-dandy walking catalogue for Holts’ customers).
See a gallery of looks from last night’s show»
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Talent-spotting at the Four Seasons: Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Garner and Josh Brolin
Big day over here up in Yorkville, namely at the Four Seasons for a luncheon with gossip guru George Christy. While the lunch itself had the strictest guestlist, the less rigidly-guarded opening reception turned out to be quite fruitful for celeb spotting. First, we had Jennifer Garner in the Four Seasons lobby in a grey […]
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TIFF party pics: We talk accessories with actress Emily Hampshire at the RED party
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.
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Fashion news: Pink Tartan’s new home, Rodarte on Martha Stewart and Lara Stone becomes an honest woman
Is Martha Stewart going from casseroles to couture? Her slew of fashionable guests (including Proenza Schouler and Andre Leon Talley) isn’t ending anytime soon: next week, Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte will be appearing on the Martha Stewart Show to talk about their design process. [Fashionologie]
Toronto fashion darling Kimberley Newport-Mimran revealed she will be expanding her Pink Tartan line from the confines of the department store by opening her first Pink Tartan flagship this fall. The 2,500-square-foot space will house the line in its “pure form” in a historic Yorkville (obviously) building. [Toronto Star]
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Backstage beauty: Side braids and dusty rose beauty at Pink Tartan
Beauty editor Lesa Hannah heads backstage at Pink Tartan to talk to the beauty team about the look for last night’s show. Click the images to read the story and check out more backstage coverage from Toronto Fashion Week.
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