memories of the ’80s – Color Me Beautiful

Are you a Winter? Summer? Spring? Autumn?
At the beginning of the 1980s, fashion and style took a dramatic leap to the extreme – wanting to shed the casual style of the previous decade. As the number of women increased in the working world, as did the need for guidance – and the publication of Color [...]

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More than Pin-Up: artist Mel Ramos

More Than Pin-Up

Pop artist Mel Ramos lends his unique take on female beauty to Strellson’s latest men’s collection.

Mel Ramos loves women.
With his pop portraits featuring sexy, scantily clad young females, Ramos’s admiration for the fairer sex has fuelled his art for the past 50 years. A believer in the power of women, he combines nudes [...]

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From Catwalk to Sidewalk

 Fashion is no longer defined by Paris or Milan. Modern sportswear is blurring the line between what belongs in the gym and what to wear to the club.
Fashion and sport have been intertwined since the early 20th century, with the collaboration increasing wealth and reach of both, as well as forging an entirely new fashion [...]

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Runway

What’s it like to watch a runway show? It can be an exciting combination of performance, art, beauty, style and emotion. If it’s not done well, it’s a tedious exercise, when you wish you could get back the time just lost to a forgettable experience.
 
Backstage is always mayhem – with models being dressed, hair [...]

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Canadian winter

The side effect of a Canadian winter – the front entrance is always a pile up!

Photo: front entrance, The Gallander household Toronto February 2009 by WH

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Sports Style Icons

How do they do it? Fans know how skilled these guys are, when they’re watching their skills on the pitch, court, or rink. But how do they become the fixture of the paparazzi lens? How did they figure out how to look that good? These guys have a lethal combination – skills, looks and a [...]

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Spring Forward Fashion

Parasuco stakes its claim to club couture….Montreal-based Parasuco, with its sexy and salacious personality, has already claimed the hearts of clubland, and now it has set its sights on the couture-loving crowd. Inspired by fashion-forward Quebec, Parasuco has always been influenced by European style and consistently looked to technology to bring something new to the [...]

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In Fashion

Fall/Winter 2008 Trend Preview

Not that you need an excuse to buy fall clothes and accessories, but when the fall clothes are in stores, it’s exciting to us diehard shoppers! Seeing the fabrics switch from the lightweight cotton and linen to the denim, wool and corduroys – seeing the stores filled with jewel tones, elegant trousers [...]

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My room: Wayne Clark

 
A fortuitous dinner invitation led Wayne Clark to find his current residence. Three years ago, Clark attended a dinner party in Cabbagetown, invited by a mutual friend of the host.   Sitting in the living room, Clark knew his stuff would look great in the space and asked the host to contact him if he should [...]

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The r.u. experience

Just a few minutes from the bustling streets of Yorkville and Cumberland is the new studio for r.u. aka fashion designer Rosemary Umetsu. Located at 96 Avenue Road, the old red brick building was transformed in five weeks with the help of former Holt Renfew visual director Nicholas Pinney. A spare black and white space, [...]

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