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As if Cheap Monday denim wasn’t already affordable, Vincent Park (4278 Main St., 604-879-6665, vincentpark.ca) owners and sisters Cara and Lauren Stryer have launched their very own Cheap Monday Cult Club. With every pair of jeans you purchase (shown, $75), you get a stamp—and your ninth pair is free! Being a club member also gets […]

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By Caroline Gault

Shanie Bar Oz is itching to soften your skin. The co-founder of Lavan (840 Granville St., Vancouver, 604-568-8807, lavanlavan.ca), which means “white” in Hebrew, sources all her store’s natural, hypoallergenic, paraben-free products from the Israeli countryside.

By Jennie Jin

Our Vancouver office got much toastier when Minoru Hirano, owner of Granted Clothing (grantedclothing.com), stopped by recently with a bag full of wooly goodies. A local family company that offers an array of knitted sweaters, toques, mittens, vests– even leg warmers, all of which are handmade in Vancouver. The company’s dedication to local business has led them to collaborate with the likes of the Canucks and Canadian brands Skull Skates and Sitka (skateboarding and surf gear, respectively). We asked Hirano about joining the family business and keeping things local.

Years ago, when I was working at Caban, Hajnalka Mandula walked in wearing an amazing outfit, all her own design. So I visited her Gastown boutique, Mandula (1898 Main St., Vancouver, 604-568-9211, mandula.com), and fell in love. Now, she’s moved it to the former Grace Gallery on North Main. Her ultra-deconstructed clothing is pricey, but […]

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A new Banana Republic store alone might not be reason enough on it’s own to hit the mall, but when it’s a new concept store, think again. The latest opening at Metropolis at Metrotown (4700 Kingsway, Burnaby, 604-438-7900, bananarepublic.com) is a 9,000-square-foot space that features shop-in-shops for each of the different Banana departments, each opening […]

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The holidays should be a time for hot toddies, chocolate truffles, and lots of cheer—but I’ll be the first to admit that all that mall madness gets to me sometimes (hands off, lady—I saw that dress first!). The solution, now more than ever? The spa.

For some people, money talks. But for Vancouver’s Amanda He, it wasn’t enough. After leaving a career as an investment banker for her true passion, design, she launched Rocaille (rocaille-design.com), a collection of sparkly necklaces and bracelets that are perfect as holiday dress accoutrements or, of course, gifts. He named her line after the opulent, […]

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Canada’s most stylish came home, if you will, to Vancouver to fete the opening of the country’s first Louis Vuitton Maison (730 Burrard St., 604-687-4644, vuitton.com). The revamped Hotel Vancouver store, the fourth Maison in North America and 12th in the world (other Maison cities include San Francisco, Tokyo, London, and, of course, Paris), features an installation work by Vancouver artist Steven Shearer, as well as a glossy “bag bar” and, finally, the complete ready-to-wear collection.

By Jennie Jin We feel a bit of ballet mania in the air–maybe it’s just our excitement for Black Swan. In Vancouver, we can feed our obsession at the first Canadian location of U.S. fitness studio The Bar Method (837 Beatty Street, 604-681-6188, vancouver.barmethod.com). The studio features an hour-long workout that mixes Pilates, yoga, and […]

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A peek into my accessories drawer will reveal that, among other things, I am truly the queen of procrastinators (and impulse buyers). When deadlines loom and there are errands to be run, I can often be found making yet another have-to-have-it purchase—and usually online. In the spirit of sharing my finds, then, from one fashion […]

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By Jennie Jin If you’ve never formally been asked if you are a “lash virgin”, then you have yet to pay a visit to Vancouver’s Noir Lash Lounge (1150 Hamilton St., 604-915-LASH, noirlashlounge.com).  The “glamour in an hour” salon specializes in semi-permanent eyelash extensions, and eyelashes only. Owner Joyce Poon has opened three locations (Yaletown, […]

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The style sense and personal aesthetic of fashion bloggers is often limited to, well, the internet, which is why the project undertaken by Barefoot Contessa owner Eva de Viveiros and her marketing manager, Lauren Wells, is so novel. For the past few weeks, the boutique’s Main Street location (3715 Main St., Vancouver, 604-879-1137, thebarefootcontessa.com) has been featuring window displays curated by local fashion bloggers behind such blogs as The Anthology and Miss Melissa. (The Commercial Drive location windows were guest designed by students from the Visual Merchandising class at John Casablancas Institute).

Fueled by an appreciation for being tweeted about and mentioned in local blogs, de Viveiros and Wells decided to do something to meet the bloggers. “We wanted to do something to support them,” says de Viveiros. “Follow Friday is great, but we wanted to do more; to interact more.”