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Whoever said that punk is dead was clearly not at Toronto Fashion Week’s Fall 2016 shows. “Courtney Love on a long, long bender. A hot mess but like, pretty” was makeup artist Grace Lee‘s interpretation of the look at Helder Diego, while ultra-glossy black lips and white-out brows at Mackage took centre stage. UNTTLD and […]

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“Excuse me if I sew while we talk,” says Simon Bélanger, in a bright atelier on the eastern edge of Montreal’s Plateau district. For five years, Bélanger and José Manuel St-Jacques have been living, breathing and dreaming fashion. The partners in life and business are the designers behind UNTTLD, a Canadian women’s clothing line known […]

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Toronto Fashion Week Day 3 was full of surprises: some that made us smile, and one that had us dabbing our eyes with a hanky. The tearjerker was David Dixon’s show, dedicated to all the women he loves and his sister, Susan, who died of cancer last year. An opening video showed Dixon draping and […]

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The closing show on Day Two of Toronto Fashion Week made one thing clear: Canada has two new kings of high glam. Designers Jose Manuel St.-Jacques and Simon Belanger of Unttld won their show as a prize in last fall’s Mercedes Benz Start-up competition. And they didn’t disappoint. Their Fall 2016 collection is a perfect […]

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We’re at the halfway point of Toronto Fashion Week, which is either making you draw a single tear or jump for joy. For those who have been enjoying the spotlight outside the Fall 2016 shows, we guess it’s the former. In our first street style batch shot by photographer Mauricio Calero, Toronto’s finest were proving […]

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Toronto Fashion Week kicked off last night with a ceremonious bang—the bang of several models who fell in alarming succession on the Mikhael Kale runway, that is. The culprit? A pool of water allegedly spilled by some troll who clearly takes pleasure in such a scene. That, or someone rushing to find their seat (but […]

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“I think Canadians are self-loathing, or we don’t think we’re cool,” Alberta-born, Toronto-based designer Sid Neigum tells me in his studio. “Something’s not good until it’s sold internationally. We see that in music all the time [too].” This issue is one that all Canadian designers are well-versed in. Since his debut at Toronto Fashion Week in […]

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It’s no secret that Canada breeds incredibly talented young designers. And if you thought we were finished with fashion week coverage, think again! We saw a number of incredible Spring 2016 collections during World MasterCard Fashion Week a couple of weeks ago, but several of our favourite collections didn’t showcase at the tents, and they […]

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This season marked Mikael Derderian‘s biggest collection yet, and with it, the exciting news of the designer officially launching into the bridal market. The Montreal-based designer has already dressed the likes of Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Miranda Lambert and pulled out all the stops for Spring 2016 with over the top voluminous dresses, sexy cutaways […]

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After a busy week (or month and a half, for those of us on the international circuit) of shows, there’s nothing fashion-goers want more than the chance to kick up their heels, grab approximately 17 cocktails and party. Which is exactly what 1,000 of our nearest and dearest fashion friends did on Friday night at […]

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The Mercedes-Benz Start Up alum has been moving onwards and upwards ever since her win in 2013. And since showing last season, Malorie Urbanovitch has landed in stores at La Maison Simons in Edmonton, a major account to sit atop her list of retailers along with cross-Canada retailer Gravity Pope. This season’s collection saw Urbanovitch […]

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Toronto’s most fashionable came out in hoards yesterday for day four of WMCFW and they did not disappoint. The crowd looked like an expert class in the art of layering as they embraced ‘more is more’ as a mantra. Ladies draped themselves in a rainbow of coloured fur to keep warm while the men continued to impress with […]

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