At the first edition of Bijoux = Art, I admired the burnished yellow gold jewelry of Dania Chelminsky, but I bought a rubber necklace by the Dutch artisan Annemieke Broenink. It's a marvelous piece, everything jewelry should be – art, fashion, adornment, embellishment, crafty and very interesting. It's made of leaf-like petals in a silvery-moss-grey that have a [...]
There is a photo of Marie Saint Pierre as a teenager in a new documentary about the celebrated Montreal designer. Her hair is a frizzy mess, her eyes rimmed and smokey with makeup, and she's holding a cigarette and playing with a straw with a provocative open mouth, clutching what may be a coke, or a rum and [...]
It took a while, but I finally visited the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see the lovely exhibition 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group. What an inspiration – on female artists and their intimate vision, on the modernism of the jazz age and on fashion. What struck me was how we no longer dress [...]
Montreal's W Hotel has changed the game in dining decor in this city with a new eatery that it calls a "transitional" restaurant from the former Otto quarters. êat or ê.a.t. as it is variously spelled – note the lack of capitalization and with-it circumflex – opens to the public Friday, Dec. 4, but media and VIPs [...]