FASHION Magazine

Photography by Team Peter Stigter

Photography by Team Peter Stigter

Photography by Team Peter Stigter

Photography by Team Peter Stigter

Photography by Team Peter Stigter

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Anna Dello Russo

Anna Dello Russo

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Leandra Medine

Leandra Medine

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Hanneli Mustaparta

Hanneli Mustaparta

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Miroslava Duma

Miroslava Duma

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Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne

If you type “street style star” into a Google search, it will generate over 671 million results. The pages range from gushy Tumblrs and Pinterest boards to roundups on magazine websites to street-style candids by the photographers who’ve catapulted these hitherto anonymous fashion plates into superstardom. For devout fashion followers, the names Hanneli Mustaparta and Susie Bubble roll off the tongue with the same familiarity as Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld. Meanwhile, type “fashion magazine editor” into a search, and you’ll get a paltry by comparison 136 million pages that err on the side of the pedantic “how to become” genre and images of Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada.

Canadian wonder boy Tommy Ton describes a favourite shot from his collection of street style photographs. “This was one of my very last moments of New York Fashion Week—I had been freezing my butt off for eight days in the cold, and it was one of those instances where you see someone and it just […]

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Canadian wonder boy Tommy Ton reflects on his street style photographs in a monthly column. It’s rare to capture a quiet moment at fashion week, especially outside the Dior show, so when I saw Hanneli walking up, I knew I had maybe 10 seconds to run and get that photo before someone else walked into […]

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Canadian wonder boy Tommy Ton reflects on his street style photographs in a new monthly column. “I always make the trek to the J.Crew presentation in New York, because there’s a whole mix of people coming to the show. I especially love seeing people who work for the companies—whether it’s J.Crew or Stella or another […]

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Canadian wonder boy Tommy Ton reflects on his street style photographs in a new monthly column. “This was the first time I’d ever seen Chiara, and it was…I don’t want to say love at first sight, but I was infatuated by her. It’s refreshing to see someone new for a change. I’ve noticed there’s a […]

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Canadian wonder boy Tommy Ton reflects on his street style photographs in a new monthly column. I’ve always thought this was one of the best outfits I’ve ever seen. I just love how simple it is. Fashion people are always pulling out the big guns and trying to outdo each other. Sometimes when you see […]

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Today’s set of street style photos from Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013 is basically a stylish game of Where’s Waldo because there are so many major fashion folks to spot. Think you have what it takes? Because our street style photographer Stefania Yarhi definitely does.

First, we breathe a sigh of relief upon spotting Anna Dello Russo (we were seriously freaking out yesterday) in a bright Peter Pilotto dress outside Giambattista Valli. Also outside was Leigh Lezark, in a fiery red, orange and black ensemble—half pantsuit, half structured sweater. There’s also quite the French beauty aesthetic going on, with almost everyone sporting natural waves and messy curls, including Emmanuelle Alt and Australian stylist Caroline Sieber. It’s a hairstyle that works: they look casual cool as they cruise around the streets of Paris.

Last night, Toronto’s favourite wunderkind-turned-blogger-turned-photographer-turned-designer returned home for the celebration of his latest venture. Said venture? The much-talked-about limited-edition bag collection designed by Tommy Ton in collaboration with Club Monaco (also one of Toronto’s proudest exports, if we may say so). But you knew that, didn’t you? In fact, you must be on the already-at capacity waiting list for one of the two models, which will apparently sell out as soon as they hit stores. That didn’t stop the city’s finest—including our editor-in-chief Bernadette Morra, blogger Anita Clarke, Jeremy Laing and the recently eye-operated-on Frank Griggs (so you can forgive the indoor sunglasses, just this once) —from stopping by the brand’s Bloor Street flagship to take a peek. We didn’t leave with the bags, but we were lucky enough to snag mini flipbooks created at the event.

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Moscow may enjoy white nights during its short but sweet summer, but as the cooler weather creeps in and the precious daylight dwindles, the Moscow girls are still lighting up the night. Winter white and cool camel were favourite looks earlier this week as the city’s best dressed came out to celebrate Coats! an exhibit marking MaxMara’s 60^th anniversary.

Anna Dello Russo has been seen in almost-the-same dress not twice, not three times, but four times. And during fashion month, too! A shande. Dello Russo first appeared in the embellished little (and we mean little) number alongside model Karolina Kurkova during Fashion’s Night Out in New York. They were twins, and it was cute. Little did we know that the twin trend would rage on… and on. We’re not sure if Kate Middleton‘s recycling ways are rubbing off on the typically over the top Vogue Nippon editor, or that she’s trying (and trying hard) to promote her fellow countryman, Italian designer Fausto Puglisi, who’s behind the fraternal twin creations. Either way, we’re just wondering how upset Tommy Ton is.

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The British are not only coming, they have arrived! For those of you who thought you’d have to wait until September to shop Topshop and Topman at the Bay’s Yorkdale store when it opens in September, have no fear. Starting this weekend (as in right now!) and running through August, Topshop has planned a series of pop-up shopping events to ensure that you can get your hands on their gear whenever and wherever (or rather, at these specific locations and times):

The second half of fashion week brings some of the buzziest shows—notably Dion Lee and Josh Goot who are known at home as well as abroad as the new kings of Australian fashion. Both put on an impressive and memorable show for their adoring subjects, and their joint reign remains unchallenged.

Dion Lee has come back to the Sydney Opera House’s glass front foyer for his Spring show—and why wouldn’t he? Of all the images from last season, the ones of rows of models in pastel draped minidresses, framed by the soaring glass structure, are the most enduring. Local PR powerhouse Holly Garber, in a navy Dion Lee dress and complicated-looking headset, directs seating with military precision, but can’t control the searing beams of morning sunshine assaulting the eyes of the front row on the lower level. Happily, I’m facing the other way. Models walk along the two levels and up and down the shallow stairs in stiff, short dresses with moulded shoulders and skirts—even bootleg trousers have strategic volume behind the ankle, like rounded alien shin-fins. Shoulders and hips appear through Lee’s signature cutouts, keeping things light and allowing natural movement. He’s added brightly coloured prints—one resembles a photograph of a sheet of crumpled metal foil. There are shiny black accents, and metallic ones. Makeup impresario Napoleon Perdis has delivered wondrously illuminated skin that gives the sunlight some reflective competition. Flat Camilla Skovgaard Grecian sandals quickly give way to vertiginous ones, and metal breastplates provide a layer of glimmering protection. At the end, the models line up like a resolved and very pretty army—if Lee continues this show format, these money shots will provide an interesting slideshow of his development as a designer.