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It’s a 10°C February day in London, and Johnny Coca is freezing. So much so that the bearded, silver-hoop-wearing Spaniard is kitted out in a Mackage puffer jacket when I meet him at Spencer House, the site for his Spring 2018 see-now-buy-now show the following day. A quick tour of the 18th-century townhouse built for […]

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Over three days last December, around 4,000 people visit­ed The Theatre Centre in Toronto for the 11th annual City of Craft fair. It was its busiest yet, with 60 vendors selling handmade goods like ceramic sculptures, crocheted cacti and stained-glass jewellery. It may come as a surprise that in 2018, shoppers are literally bumping elbows […]

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Hunter Schafer is a multi-hyphenate—just not the kind you’d expect. The 19-year-old model eschews the typical model/DJ or model/actress moniker in favour of model/designer/artist/activist. Schafer, whose long limbs and preternatural grace evoke a young Grace Kelly, identifies as transgender and was one of the leading voices against North Carolina’s infamous “bathroom bill,” which forbade transgender […]

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Last September, Rihanna’s Fenty x Puma Spring 2018 show pretty much brought the X Games to the runway. Models strutted around mounds of sparkling hot pink sand as motorbikes whizzed past and did 360-degree tricks overhead. Rihanna even completed her finale bow atop a cherry red bike. when the X-Games come to fashion week. Thank […]

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While it may have seemed for a while that nail art was headed to the grave, thanks to season after season of nothing but nude and clear nail polish making their way down the runways, the fall shows reassured us that nail art is certainly not dead—and you won’t want it to be, once you […]

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These days, turning on the news or scrolling through Twitter comes at a price—it feels as if everything we hold dear is under attack. There’s a war on equality, on feminism, on science, on facts, on sanity. In response to this barrage of daily torments, designers the world over are seeking an escape from reality, […]

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The classic ingredients in a spaghetti western are good guys and bad guys, and there are plenty of “black hats” in the headlines these days. Though there’s also the odd sheriff who keeps his head down and tries to maintain law and order, villains generally rule the day. The shenanigans of cowboys and lone rangers […]

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If the Kardashians typically conjure beige body-con dresses, nude selfies and dramatic contouring for you, you’d be forgiven for having a moment of cognitive dissonance upon seeing them frolicking in a barn, wrapped up in quilts, for Calvin Klein’s Spring 2018 denim campaign. (The brand has one-of-a-kind vintage quilts available online for a range of […]

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Florals, pastels and diaphanous dresses are often a few of fashion’s spring favourites, and this year, designers seemed especially smitten with these feminine references. But in the wake of 2017—a year when millions of women marched for human rights, “feminism” was one of Merriam-Webster’s most searched words and Time’s Person of the Year was a […]

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Though she moved away from her hometown of Naples at the age of 22 to pursue makeup artistry, Lucia Pica, global creative makeup and colour designer for Chanel, often finds herself saying she never really left. “It’s where I feel I belong the most,” she says from a 19th-century villa overlooking the Posillipo coast. Now […]

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If you Google “Canadian Tuxedo” a picture of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake pops up. The double-denim look that the two pop stars wore to the 2001 American Music Awards has become iconic, but Canucks didn’t dream up this sartorial combo. Turns out the term was coined after American singer and actor Bing Crosby was […]

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We think Canadian model Amber Witcomb is pretty hot right now. So hot in fact, that we commissioned artist Benjamin Shine to mould her likeness out of tulle for our special 40th anniversary issue cover. But we’re not the only ones who think so. After a stellar season for fall (that brunette bob really sealed […]

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