Beauty, Shopping and Into the Gloss at Holt Renfrew’s ‘Powder Puff’

The beauty event, Powder Puff, was held at Holt Renfrew’s Bloor Street store in Toronto Tuesday evening.  Featuring special guest, Emily Weiss from Into the Gloss, the online beauty publication, who had a brief interview with Lisa Tant (VP, Fashion Editor at Holt Renfrew), the event was very much make-up and beauty centric.  Make-overs, manicures […]

Greta Constantine Goes Navy, Black and White for Spring 2013

Greta Constantine presented their Spring/Summer 2013 collections to media and fans alike at the Distillery District’s Fermenting Cellar last week, about a month and a half after when they typically show in Toronto.  The collection, consisting of three colours of black, navy and white (i.e. a little bit nautical), were presented by colour with the […]

B1tchin’ about Grilled Cheese and Apple Enchiladas

The Gourmet Food and Wine Expo has ended for another year and it was definitely another year of success for them, judging from the massive crowd that was in attendance on Friday night.  In fact, the crowd was so big that it was pretty difficult to navigate from station to station, meaning that it was […]

New Stores, More Shopping and Yorkdale’s New Wing

It has finally landed!  Right in time for the holidays, Yorkdale‘s new expansion, which has 145,000 square feet of retail space has opened its doors to the public.  Featuring Anthropologie’s third Toronto location and Ann Taylor’s second as well as first-to-market stores like Kate Spade and Ted Baker, Yorkdale continues to be the IT shopping […]

Ann Taylor Lands North!

The first Ann Taylor store in Canada, which officially opens at the Toronto Eaton Centre today, celebrated with a private grand opening party last evening.  The store, located on the third floor next to the Apple Store, features many of this season’s pieces, including a small petites collection, which is good news for those of […]

Celebrating FNO at AIME, Holt Renfrew, Hazelton Lanes and More

Canadian designer Monica Mei opened her AIME boutique and showroom for the first time last night.  Part of Toronto’s first Fashion’s Night Out (FNO), people not only got to see the latest AIME collection, but also nibble on appetizers from Elizabeth Hill Catering and listen to music spun by Tunesy.   The interior of Monica’s […]

Fashion’s Night Out Toronto: THIS THURSDAY!

Fashion’s Night out is later this week and stores across the city are participating.  While it seems that participating locations are quite spread out (largely concentrated in the Bloor-Yorkville area and Yorkdale Shopping Centre.  The Toronto Eaton Centre is also involved, but it seems like it’s in a much smaller scale than Yorkdale. Except for […]

Fashion’s Night Out Toronto – September 6, 2012

Yep, it’s been official for a while now – Fashion’s Night Out, which was founded in 2009 by Vogue Magazine in the US to help boost the economy is happening in Toronto for the first time this September 6 – which is, by the way, also the first day of New York Fashion Week and […]

Diner en Blanc Descends into Toronto

Toronto held its first Diner en Blanc last night – August 9, 2012.  Despite the cold and pouring rain, some 1,000 participants, all donning white from head to toe descended to Fort York around 7 pm, with meals packed in picnic baskets, catching the attention of many.  Diner en Blanc, which started in Paris in […]