Operanation 8, held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, home of the Canadian Opera Company, on October 21. This year’s event was called “A Muse Ball” and celebrated not only music, art and style as well and featured installments and four looks from four Canadian designers, including Arthur Mendoca and Joeffer Caoc, […]
Teeming with legendary works of art and architecture, walking through the city of Florence is like walking through a vast, outdoor museum. The cathedral church, Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, also known as the Duomo, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site; the famous Uffizi Gallery houses works by Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci; […]
Ste. Anne’s Country Inn & Spa, widely regarded as Canada’s favourite destination spa, is branching out with its new sister property, The Dorset Manor. Located in the historic town of Port Hope about 90 minutes outside of Toronto, the Dorset was previously owned by Ste. Anne’s founder Jim Corcoran (when it was known as the […]
Media were invited to view pieces from CB2, Crate and Barrel‘s sister store yesterday. CB2 will be opening its first Canadian store at the corner of Queen and Bathurst this November – right at former home of the Big Bop. CB2 distinguishes itself from Crate and Barrel with smaller, more scaled back and modern pieces, […]
Yonge Street, between Gerard and Dundas, is getting a makeover, according to a Toronto Star article. The area is to get widened sidewalks and encourages new businesses such as cafes, retailers and so forth. Sounds like a good idea, but I think it needs to be expanded. The area south of Bloor to Gerard needs […]
It looks like Yorkville area bloggers have a new place to park their Macs (other than the seven or so Starbucks and Second Cups) as Seven Grams Espresso Bar, an independent coffee bar with free Wi-Fi has recently opened its doors on Avenue Road, just south of Davenport. Founded by Heran Choi and Sunmi Park, […]
In any industry it’s competitive, hard and demanding but some industries really just take that much more to succeed or breakthrough. The arts industry for example could be one of them, requiring natural talent mixed with a brilliant business mind, good intuition and a real desire to not only succeed but rise above. The person […]
Step right up to Yorkville’s 6th Annual Icefest, Saturday, February 26 and Sunday, February 27 only! This year’s theme, which focuses on the circus, features sculptures such as clowns, lions performing tricks as well as other circus-related icy works of art. There’ll also be circus-related nibblies such as cotton candy and popcorn. A digital photographer […]
Cynthia Cheng Mintz Mary Katrantzou presented her very artsy pieces at the last day of London Fashion Week’s Autumn/Winter 2011 Collections (the official last day is actually Wednesday, but only men’s wear is being presented). Resembling pieces of hand-painted antique china, these very colourful pieces are certainly different from what many other designers are presenting for next season. […]
Cynthia Cheng Mintz Most people don’t think of fall fashio as being soft and flowy. This was definitely not the case at Rebecca Minkoff, whose boho chic and 80s-inspired styles did not disappoint in her Fall/Winter 2011 collections. With slouchy sweaters and cranberry ripped leggings as well as flowy dresses, animal prints as well the […]
