It's a big blur: four days in Toronto shopping from Yorkdale and Yorkville to the Eaton Centre and Ossington St. Saks, The Bay, The Room at The Bay, Nordstrom times two (at Eaton Centre and Yorkdale), Uniqlo, etc. What stood out: mainly the shoes. Darling Miu Miu Maryjanes at Nordstrom, Erdem at The Bay, Dries Van Noten [...]
Prepare to be awed by the latest addition to Montreal's Golden Square Mile retail renaissance on de la Montagne. And ladies, prepare to be jealous. Suitsupply, the Dutch menswear company, has landed on the block of stately Victorian mansions between de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Sherbrooke St. W. The store is breathtakingly modern and spectacular, 4,000 [...]
I’ve taken a bit of a break recently. Call it writer’s block, call it indolence, call it a holiday – the empty screen has been haunting me to the point that it’s become a thing. Like not thinking elephant. I wanted to write my traditional year in fashion wrap – how Canada actually made it [...]
Surprise, surprise: Canadian fashion retailing is healthy. So says Randy Harris, president of Trendex North America. From Ohio, based in Florida, and specializing in Canadian, Mexican retail and e-commerce apparel markets, Harris shared his Canadian apparel insights at a recent meeting of Vêtement Québec – his 13th time as a guest of the industry association. [...]
It is quite the milestone: Ogilvy, the stately department store, turns 150 years old this year. To celebrate the anniversary, the Montreal institution is continuing its philanthropic path, now supporting with the Montreal Children’s Hospital with fashion shows, shopping events and more. More includes having commissioned about 15 designs from the likes of Stuart Weitzman, [...]
Impeccable in a white Tom Ford frock, Nannette de Gaspé Beaubien held sway at a Holt Renfrew breakfast in Montreal recently to launch her line of rejuvenating beauty masks in Canada. The story of the masks’ stellar success internationally is remarkable – as perhaps are the masks. They are dry masks on printed Japanese textiles, [...]
By the time you read this, Edgardo Osorio, co-founder and creative director of Aquazurra shoes, will be in Mustique celebrating his 30th birthday. In his young life, the Colombian-born, Florence-based shoe designer has built a remarkable brand with remarkable shoes – sexy, fierce, beautiful – and, he says, comfortable. He may even be right on [...]