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 [...]
Talk about the beautification of Ste-Catherine St. W. Pharmaprix has just opened its seventh "Enhanced Beauty Boutique," or Galerie Beauté as we say chez nous, in the country. It is 4,000 gleaming square feet of prestige and mass brands, plus the the usual drug store stock upstairs. And the concept boasts the only Chanel counters in drug [...]
Ready, set, shop – but not until fall 2018. Saks Off 5th is coming to an expanded Eaton Centre after landlord Ivanhoé Cambridge merges the mall with Complexe Les Ailes next year. The new store will be almost 45,000 square feet of discounted designer fashion – from Alexis Bittar to Zac Posen, with hundreds of brand names in between. HBC, [...]
Well, hello! Welcome to the reincarnation of my blog. In the fall of 2007, I launched a blog as part of my coverage of fashion for the Montreal Gazette. Called The Constant Shopper, it was my little "niche in cyberspace" to document my shopping adventures. "I shop, therefore I am,'' I wrote in questioning what [...]
Published in The Constant Shopper, Oct. 23, 2007. The coat quest is reaching new levels of desperation. Witness my outing with my Sunday entourage of three old dames to the Cavendish Mall. (Like the Ukraine, this mall can't shed its definite article, and I can't explain why.) So there I was with the ladies - [...]
EVA FRIEDE, SPECIAL TO URBAN EXPRESSIONS, PUBLISHED SEPT. 22, 2015 / Isabelle Laflèche adores fashion. The Montreal author and former securities lawyer has had a string of successes with her J’adore series of chic-lit novels, set in New York and Paris, with the most recent a short story based in Montreal’s Holt Renfrew. But there is a lot [...]
From Nov. 5, 2007 The big trouble with buying is often buyer’s regret. And even when a store has a good return policy, you’re walking into a minefield of temptation when you bring back that shiny metallic tunic T-shirt that makes you feel like a fashion victim. Yes, I bought just such an item at [...]
Here's a post from July 14, 2008. You have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear. The situation can be likened to the consumption of junk food. What to do? One option I exercise far too often is to exacerbate the situation by heading for the mall – where the equivalent of empty calories [...]