FASHION Magazine

Having traveled from Halifax to Toronto for the past three years to document up and coming fashion, beauty and street style trends for my site Lion Hunter, I’ve come to accept the madness of fashion week. This season, as an online editorial intern at FASHION, I get to experience fashion week differently, having already been in the city for a few months and working for the magazine. Each day will still bring worries of failing to squeeze in a quick bite between shows, publishing up to date content and finding a moment to rest before the next day rolls in. Thankfully, concern over my sartorial choices is the least of these.

My approach to figuring out outfits leads to a heap of gathered wares from my favourite thrift and vintage stores that I’ve slowly collected since the lights dimmed last season. Vintage trinkets and jewellery, a plethora of prints and dope heels that I will curse at the end of each day, are all under scrutiny. As a frugal shopper I’ve found ways to create street style worthy looks without making my bank account sweat. I put together possible looks out of that pile of goodness allowing myself to change them due to last minute thrift store finds or an inspired trade of pieces between outfits. The upside of taking in Toronto Fashion Week is a prior month worth of street style inspiration from New York, London, Paris and Milan to inspire a week’s worth of looks.

In the spirit of anything goes when dressing for fashion week, here are 3 inexpensive looks that are worthy of a little show and tell.

What do you get for the girl who has everything? Well if you’re Kim Kardashian and the girl in question is Kate Middleton, you get her a pair of shoes that you a stylist made.

Kardashian has taken it upon herself (or her members-only shoe site, ShoeDazzle) to create a personalized pump “just for Kate” in honour of Kate’s 30^th birthday.

The Duchess pump, as it is so uncleverly named, is inspired by Kate’s timeless style. According to Kim, the “classic quilting and graceful silhouette” make this the perfect shoe for a princess.

Graceful silhouette? General consensus is that Kate wouldn’t dare put her ladylike feet in these hidden platforms. Instead, she tends to favour sleeker pumps with sensible heels.

This all begs the question: did Kim really design these with Kate in mind or was this just a PR move to garner some attention for her site? Hmmmm.