Four years and growing, the Cabinet Éphémère, that roving popup of Quebec designers, has moved into Rockland Centre. The store is a delight, festooned with flowers and pink planter pots, with a beige carpet that has been brought to life with the graffiti-esque scrawlings of Ojo. Fitting rooms are art installations – garden scenes, giant [...]
The buzz about Mark Antoine has been building since his student days at UQAM just two years ago. This week, fans packed the closing show of the seventh edition of Fashion Preview for a rousing finale to the week. Bursts of orange from burnt to bright and neon green stood out, as did touches of glitter (sleeves [...]
I never go into an interview unprepared. If you caught my segment with Joanne Vrakas on Breakfast Television Montreal – or missed it – here are my "notes" going into the interview, part of the BT Montreal influencer series. I must say I was flattered and honoured to be part of the series. Anyhow, as [...]
Journalist, editor, writer, blogger, fashionista – and now, apparently, I'm an influencer. Rockland Centre, which I have frequented forever, picked five women of influence to headline its fall campaign. In this ever-changing media landscape, it’s people with a personal sense of style and their own niche in cyberspace – social media numbers are key – who [...]
The fall/winter fashion previews continue apace. In the past few days, as winter has re-emerged, Judith & Charles and Marie Saint Pierre have invited media to view upcoming collections. It's a little bit funny. The fashion seasons are becoming a thing of the past: Burberry was the biggest recent name to dispense with the six-month [...]
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When Dress for Success needs help, it turns to – what else? – fashion. The Montreal branch of the international organization that helps women return to the workplace is holding a stylish fundraising benefit on March 19. On the menu: cocktails and canapés catered by Buonanotte, a DJ, prizes and booths from the likes of Carrément Tarte, Tailor2Go and [...]
Cher is there of course, as well as Marilyn, Elizabeth, Grace, JLo, Beyoncé, Farrah and Cleopatra. There are Dancing with the Stars dolls, cowgirls, mermaids, fairies, pirates, vampires and African and Native American fantasy figures. But mostly, these are fashion dolls – outfitted by Bob Mackie, naturally, but also Coach, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, DVF and so many [...]
Forget Wiarton Willie, Punxsutawney Phil, and assorted groundhogs who emerge Feb. 2 and are seen as (very unreliable) prognosticators of spring. Signs of spring are everywhere, including yesterday's high of PLUS!! 8 Celsius, and despite tomorrow's forecast of freezing rain, ice pellets, snow and rain, the high of PLUS 5. The off-shoulder shirt, as seen [...]
My hair has a life of its own, clothes that look fabulous in the mirror can be awful on camera and I don't photograph well at all. The dull mauve-brown lipstick I love really doesn't suit me that well. And what's more, I've aged. None of this is new to me, but I have decided to [...]