Style

It started with a custom hat for Win Butler, the front man of the band, Arcade Fire. “I think I a mistake and after, I just kept it,” Alex Surprenant says. The topper’s visibly mended fissure is now a signature detail of a Fumile hat: the scar. “It’s not...

Drew Hayden Taylor is an Anishnawbe playwright and humorist.As an Indigenous writer, I used to spend a lot of time on the lecture circuit in pre-COVID times, spreading the gospel of Native literature. Many of the questions I would get from the audience dealt with the art of writing. But...

Have you ever felt all dressed up with no political statement to make?Perhaps some background: The first time I met Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, was at a book launch taking place at the Royal Ontario Museum. I was rushing down a hallway, late as always,...

A design destination in Toronto, Elte has been owned and operated by the same family since 1919 and continues to cater to discerning home decor eyes. Its most recent debut is the 28-piece Eskayel collection of heirloom rugs created with Brooklyn-based artist Shanan Campanaro. “There is a calming and almost...

Last spring, as the pandemic was just taking hold and everyone was vigilantly washing and sanitizing their hands like never before, Twitter was ablaze asking for recommendations on the best hand cream to relieve the damage our new habit had wrought. My immediate response was the same as it had...

At Sundays, furnishing your home is meant to feel comfy and cozy. As a direct-to-consumer, Vancouver-based and family-owned company with pop-up retail spaces in Vancouver and Toronto, Sundays’ focus is on stylish pieces at an accessible price point. “We just decided a couple of years ago that there was a...

From artists such as Paul Cézanne and Andy Warhol to fashion greats including Yves Saint Laurent and Virgil Abloh, the mothers – and mother figures – of many of the world’s most prominent creative types often play the role of muse. For example, fashion designer Michael Kors, an only child...

Aleksandra Jassem and Nikita Stanley are the co-founders of the Rebel Mama blog and best-selling authors of The Handbook for (Cool) Moms and Get Your $hit Together: The Rebel Mama’s Handbook for Financially Empowered Moms. Their beauty-related recommendation for a Mother’s Day gift is a Forma facial.“We love this non-invasive...

Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, has died at the age of 59, luxury conglomerate Richemont said.In a statement released on Sunday, Richemont’s chairman Johann Rupert said “it was with shock and enormous sadness that I heard of...

Since he moved to Toronto in 2012, Mic. Carter has been living two lives: elementary school teacher by day, fashion designer by night. While educating preteens and creating clothing collections that reference Afrofuturism might seem like a surprising combination, Carter’s brand, L’Uomo Strano (an Italian translation of “strange man”), is...

In May, 2020, Nyla Obaid found herself at home with two young children and the surplus of clothing they’d grown out of. With her usual thrift stores and swap centres closed because of the pandemic, Obaid decided to post a few things she wanted to sell on Instagram. “It really...

Salons and barbershops are starting to reopen in some parts of Canada with more on the way, but the industry says the measures needed to keep everyone safe while getting a haircut will mean a big financial hit.Allied Beauty Association executive director Alain Audet said Wednesday that the necessary precautions...

It’s the September fashion week season, and in any other year London would be abuzz with fashionistas zipping across town in Mercedes Benzes, hobnobbing with celebrities at glittering catwalk shows before sipping champagne at late-night parties.This is no typical year, though, and London Fashion Week is decidedly less glamorous. There...

“Mask-ne is a catchall phrase that describes worsening or developing of pimples under a face mask,” says dermatologist Jerry Tan. He explains that mask wearing can also cause or aggravate a variety of different skin conditions that may resemble acne, including rosacea, dermatitis and folliculitis. This is because increased humidity...

If you had to choose between colour and sustainability, which has the most sway? You might be tempted by must-have seasonal shades or the cheerfulness of bright fabrics, but lately, some of the most sustainable pieces aren’t so flashy. In fact, you might think they’re somewhat colour-free. Privately owned campgrounds...

When Kristi Soomer launched her sustainable clothing brand Encircled almost a decade ago, she wanted to make sure her products were planet-friendly and socially fair.It wasn’t easy.Fashion has grown into a US$3-trillion-a-year global industry largely because it is built on the premise of buying cheap and changing with the seasons....

In planning Wander, a new resort in Ontario’s Prince Edward County, owner-designer Shannon Hunter could have easily defaulted to cheap, bed-in-a-box mattresses, the kind that cost about $1,000 each and are advertised on basically every podcast. Instead, Hunter decided to invest more than triple that on custom mattresses from Ottawa-based...

In the fall of 2017, menswear designer Nick Graham asked Bill Nye – yes, that science guy – to walk the runway for a space-themed show during New York Fashion Week. The mechanical engineer-turned-beloved 1990s TV geek strutted his stuff wearing a metallic suit with a rocket print and his...

Outside the birds are chirping and a spring thaw has finally arrived, but inside, your closet remains stuffed to the gills with bulky down coats, knit sweaters and thermal leggings. Now that it’s – fingers crossed – warm enough to shed a few layers for those physically distanced outdoor walks,...

Lineage Ceramics founder Shuobi Wu has ceramics in his blood. His great-granduncle immigrated to Hong Kong and started the family ceramics business in the 1920s and Wu grew up watching his father make ceramics in his studio. “When my brother and I were young, he specifically told us never to...