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Only one year in business and Big Apple–based label Primary (primaryny.com) has two big benchmarks bagged: the endorsement of a star style blogger (The Glamourai’s Kelly Framel) and a resort collection. Raised in Vancouver and schooled at Parsons, designer Cleo Schroeder talks West Coast roots and quirky fashion hits.

India Hicks (indiahicks.com) wears many hats (model, author, entrepreneur, wife, mother, daughter of famed interior designer David Hicks, goddaughter of Prince Charles, and real-life Royal—she’s roughly 500th in line to the British throne), but lately she has been focused on another accessory: fine jewellery. Inspired by her father’s strong design aesthetic, her debut collection (available at Holt Renfrew) launches this fall. Here, this Bahamas-based beauty talks family jewels and the great unknown.

By Dennis Hensley

On her new album, When the Sun Goes Down, Selena Gomez sings about self-acceptance (“Who Says”), infatuation (“Whiplash,” which Britney Spears co-wrote) and taming a misbehaving guy (“That’s More Like It,” co-written by Katy Perry). Yet when asked which track reveals the most about her, Gomez ditches the hearts and flowers and goes right for the jugular. “‘Bang Bang Bang’ is probably the most personal,” she says, referring to a snarky kiss-off anthem directed toward an ex, in which she coos put-downs like, “My new boy used to be a model…he looks way better than you” and “When I’m out having fun, you’re gonna be the one that’s broken.”

If you were anywhere near a television during the Vancouver Olympics, you’ll be familiar with the names Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. You’ll remember their killer moves, their gold medal for ice dancing, and most importantly, their undeniable chemistry. While the two haven’t dated since they were teens, there must’ve been millions of viewers across the country plotting their futures together. So it seems fitting that the two teamed up for the launch of The Body Shop’s new Body Butter Duos ($16 each, at The Body Shop locations across Canada), given that they’re constantly connected in our minds (and dreams). The newly available body butter duo offers the same old goodness but split into two, offering both normal- and dry-skin coverage. (They’re majorly delicious. We love macadamia.)

While at the launch last month, we had the chance to go über-fan on the dancing duo and quiz them on things that may or may not have had anything to do with how soft their skin is.

Read our interview after the jump:

Flapper enthusiasts (and R-Patz devotees) rejoice! The much-anticipated romantic drama, Water for Elephants, finally opens next Friday April 22nd. Based on Sara Gruen’s novel of the same name, Elephants tells the story of two star-crossed lovers who bond over their shared care of a circus elephant during the Great Depression. The festooned celebration of circus […]

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Romanian-born, Montreal-raised Irina Lazareanu has pounded the runways for everyone from Chanel, Christian Dior and 3.1 Phillip Lim to Sonia Rykiel, Rick Owens and Yohji Yamamoto. But it’s her off-catwalk life that she’s famous for: She’s friends with Kate Moss, is working on her own album with Sean Lennon and has played drums for Pete Doherty and his band, Babyshambles (she’s also been romantically linked—or at least rumoured to be—with both of them). She brought her signature bangs and cool, badass appeal to the opening of the Joe Fresh Style flagship in Vancouver, and FASHION snatched a moment with her to talk all things love.

You walked in the Joe show in Toronto last spring. Did you know the company before that? “That was my first time working with them, and it was really amazing. It was my first Canadian show, my mom was there, and I felt so at home.”

This interview is for our February issue, and the theme is love. “Ooooh.”

Obviously, there are things everyone wonders about your relationships. “I love that. I’m very open—I mean, what else is there to know that people don’t already know?”

Dita Von Teese had ’em packed in and panting for her Be Cointreauversial Show in New Orleans. The crowd at the House of Blues lapped up every second of the burlesque superstar’s turn with an oversized Swarovski-encrusted cocktail glass, in which she splashed around in a simulacrum of her violet-tinged signature drink, the Cointreau Teese. […]

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Daphne Guinness, the newest Nars face and an icon of style, talks lipstick application, how she soothes her soul and the perfect holiday gift.

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Haider Ackermann knows how to roll with the punches. Despite the fact that his Fall 2010 collection got stuck at customs the day of his first North American runway show (held at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum in June), the Colombia-born, Belgium-based designer, who usually shows in Paris, remained the very definition of cool—which could also […]

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By Rea McNamara

Luxury is in real time: Livestreamed runway shows, style blogs, personalized shopping apps and expanding global markets. Aggregating this conversation has been the Business of Fashion, an industry must-RSS read. At the helm of the site is Imran Amed, a McGill-educated Calgarian. We caught up with the London-based founder and editor, a Harvard MBA that the Independent calls an “inspirational, interesting, and influential” player, to discuss these changes.

I remember reading a couple years ago that you had heard, as an assessment of Canadian fashion, that “Canadian designers lack the confidence to push forward their own ideas, choosing instead to be ‘inspired’ by major international designers.” Fast forward to this spring, and you reported a “Quiet Canadian Fashion Revolution in London.” What do you think happened between now and then?

“Wherever I travel, I am always on the look out for interesting stories to tell; stories that will be of interest to a global audience and from which our readers can draw lessons and inspiration. Naturally, I want to tell stories from Canada as well.

We know him best as Vinny Chase, the doe-eyed lead from HBO’s Entourage. But recently, Adrian Grenier added something new to the equation as a documentary film maker. It started when he was dealing with the paparazzi–a part of daily life for him in LA–when he noticed one of the shutterbugs was surprisingly young. As in, 13-years-old and still young enough to look cute in a Justin Bieber haircut. Austin Visschedyk, the pre-pubescent who realized he could make a whole lot more cash staying out til 4 a.m. snapping pics of Paris and Lindsay than, say, keeping a paper route. He would become the subject of Grenier’s intrigue and his next film, Teenage Paparazzo. We had a chance to chat with Grenier about making the kid famous, his own relationship with the paps, and, because we couldn’t resist, we talked Entourage.

On making the kid famous: “Well, yeah, I didn’t expect it, but I guess on some level, I guess I was teaching–or at least learning from myself and at the same time trying to teach him how best to be famous. If you’re going to be famous, do it the right way, with grace and humbleness and self-reflection, and don’t take it for granted.”

In person, Yvan Rodic displays the sort of artful dishevelment and casual indifference you’d expect from a cool young Frenchman. The photographer behind the popular style blog Facehunter, he sees himself as part of a shift in the youth zeitgeist, and true to the site’s name, his images are more about people than the clothes […]

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