Homegrown Boutique Celebrates First Birthday

The Yorkville area boutique which carries items from new and established Canadian designers like Rachel Sin, Sarah Stevenson and others celebrated its one year anniversary last night with a bash at Epique Lounge, just steps away from the store.  Some items from the store were showcased on dress forms and there were some delicious cookies […]

Monique Lhuillier for Waterford Pieces Makes One Rethink Formal Settings

Known for her gorgeous wedding dresses, Monique Lhuillier has made an addition to her bridal resume.  Teaming up with Waterford, she has released a collection of gorgeous china and crystals.  Ms. Lhuillier made an apperance at an event held at William Ashley in Toronto’s Manulife Centre, attendees nibbled on mini cupcakes from Cake Opera and […]

Be Your Own T Launch – Gap Bloor-Yorkville

Be Your Own T, featuring t-shirts designed by various designers all over the world, launched at the Gap store on Bay and Bloor Tuesday night.  Hosted by She Does the City and featuring some of Toronto’s most prominent bloggers such as Nelia from Styleblog.ca and Lauren Out Loud, attendees were treated to a braiding bar, […]

Elle Canada and Creating Scents at Intermix Toronto

Elle Canada held a spring style and shopping event at Intermix in Yorkville Thursday evening.  Though no one from the magazine actually spoke about trends, many of the pieces were tagged as looks recommended by editor-in-chief, Noreen Flanagan as an “Editor’s Choice.”  I didn’t agree with some of her picks, however, as they looked like […]

Relaxing at Wish Restaurant

One of my favourite Yonge and Bloor area restaurants is Wish Restaurant on Charles, just east of Yonge.  Known for a while as The Black Skirt, Wish offers delicious lunch and dinner choices as well as a weekend brunch and is definitely a place to go if you want to get away from the hustle […]

Bloor-Yorkville: What Stores Do You Want To See?

A while back, we posted a piece about Yorkdale’s renovations and asked what stores you’d like see open there (followed up last week by a piece updating on speculated stores).  So now we turn to another major shopping district in Toronto, the Bloor-Yorkville area.  This area has one of the highest rents for a shopping […]

Recent Purchases from Homegrown Boutique

A bit of Canada love here some of my latest purchases come from Canadian brands.  The first two are dresses that I got from Homegrown Boutique, a store in Toronto’s Yorkville shopping district that features items from Canadian designers.  The first was actually purchased back in the fall when I attended Homegrown Boutique’s Spring/Summer 2012 […]

Coach Classics: Leather Shoulder Purse

Coach’s Classics line, long available online at at many other locations across North America (including Toronto’s Yorkdale store) finally made its way to the Bloor and Avenue Road location.  There was a “preview” for the line a couple of weeks ago when author and TV host/judge, Gail Simmons was in town, promoting her new book, […]