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Jean Grant

Jean Grant has been a freelance writer since 2015, covering a range of lifestyle topics like shopping, interiors, wellness and culture for publications like Maclean’s and Toronto Life. She also enjoys working with brands to develop custom content, and shares personal essays through her Substack newsletter, Nobody is Thinking About You.

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Store Guide: Frank and Oak, the online menswear retailer's first Toronto flagship

Store Guide: Frank and Oak, the online menswear retailer’s first Toronto flagship

Name: Frank and Oak Sells: Menswear Contact Info: 735 Queen St. W. , 647-930-8711 Hours: M-W, Sa 10-7, Th-Fr 10-8, Su 11-6 Toronto...

Parisian menswear shop Loding has a sleek new home in First Canadian Place

Parisian menswear shop Loding has a sleek new home in First Canadian Place

Parisian menswear brand Loding landed in Toronto last winter when it partnered with Yannick Bigourdan, owner of Queen West...

Store Guide: Kit and Ace, a cozy new clothing store on Queen West from the former designer for Lululemon

Store Guide: Kit and Ace, a cozy new clothing store on Queen West from the former designer for Lululemon

Name: Kit and Ace Sells: Casualwear for men and women Contact Info: 779 Queen St. W., kitandace.com Hours: M-Sa 11-7, Su 11-6 Kit...

Pop-Up Pick: shop handmade holiday gifts from some of the city's best artisans

Pop-Up Pick: shop handmade holiday gifts from some of the city’s best artisans

Here's something for anyone who likes to get a head-start on their holiday shopping. Cabinet of Curiosity, a new pop-up shop, will...

Alexander Wang for H&M hits select stores tomorrow

Alexander Wang for H&M hits select stores tomorrow

Alexander Wang' s much-hyped collection for H&M hits select Toronto stores tomorrow. The 62-piece collaboration, which you can...

Street Style: Seaton Village kids go trick-or-treating in terrifyingly cute costumes

Street Style: Seaton Village kids go trick-or-treating in terrifyingly cute costumes

Seaton Village, with its high concentration of young families and narrow houses (almost all of which were decked out like...

The Find: 17 great pairs of boots that'll get you excited for cooler temperatures

The Find: 17 great pairs of boots that’ll get you excited for cooler temperatures

It's around this time of year that most women realize they'll have to ditch their favourite sneakers for something a bit...

Ted Baker's first downtown store opens Saturday in the Eaton Centre

Ted Baker’s first downtown store opens Saturday in the Eaton Centre

As of Saturday, November 1, Ted Baker London fans will no longer have to trek to Yorkdale to pick up the British clothier's line...

Dramatic eyelash extensions are now available on Queen West

Dramatic eyelash extensions are now available on Queen West

Toronto-based beauty bar Mync Lash Lounge has arrived downtown, bringing diva-approved eyelash extensions to Queen...

Annex boutique Risqué has opened a second, nicer location on Bloor Street

Annex boutique Risqué has opened a second, nicer location on Bloor Street

Risqué has been peddling cute, casual womenswear in the Annex for the past twenty-five years. (Nothing about the place is...

Toronto Fashion Week: some of the best—but mainly, the most ridiculous—outfits from day five

Toronto Fashion Week: some of the best—but mainly, the most ridiculous—outfits from day five

Between Stephan Caras’ s glittery gold pantsuits and HD Homme' s metallic blazers, the final day of Toronto Fashion Week was the...

Toronto Fashion Week: Grecian gowns, shiny sweaters and 13 more of the best and worst looks from day four

Toronto Fashion Week: Grecian gowns, shiny sweaters and 13 more of the best and worst looks from day four

The fourth day of Fashion Week was chock-full of pretty pieces that you'll probably actually want to wear come spring. Unlike day...

Street Style Trend Report: Fashion Week attendees channel off-duty models in distressed denim

Street Style Trend Report: Fashion Week attendees channel off-duty models in distressed denim

Whether it's a ‘90s nostalgia thing—or just a comfort thing, as Fashion Week draws to a close—show-goers have been ditching...

Toronto Fashion Week: the best and most absurd looks from day three (including pieces from Mackage and Klaxon Howl)

Toronto Fashion Week: the best and most absurd looks from day three (including pieces from Mackage and Klaxon Howl)

The third day of Toronto Fashion Week saw a mix of shows from established labels and up-and-comers. Luxe outerwear brand Mackage...

Street Style Trend Report: the Fashion Week crowd makes a statement with silly clutches

Street Style Trend Report: the Fashion Week crowd makes a statement with silly clutches

For toting around Fashion Week necessities this season (like lip balm and an iPhone charger), we've noticed many stylish women...

Toronto Fashion Week: the best and worst looks from day two (including bigshots Bustle and Target)

Toronto Fashion Week: the best and worst looks from day two (including bigshots Bustle and Target)

The second day of Toronto Fashion Week was crammed full of opposing looks: there were gothic, drapey suits from Thomas...

Street Style Trend Report: fall coats take a backseat to luxe vests at Toronto Fashion Week

Street Style Trend Report: fall coats take a backseat to luxe vests at Toronto Fashion Week

While swapping a fall coat for a sleeveless vest isn't the most effective way to brave chilly temperatures, it's a chic way to...

Toronto Fashion Week: the best and worst looks from day one

Toronto Fashion Week: the best and worst looks from day one

Toronto Fashion Week started off strong yesterday: style heavyweights Pink Tartan and Sid Neigum each had individual shows, and...

Queen West accessories boutique Zane has expanded into Yorkville

Queen West accessories boutique Zane has expanded into Yorkville

Since its birth as a small pop-up shop in 2010, Zane has been peddling coveted accessories from cool new designers out of its...

Score looks from Toronto Fashion Week designers during Gilt's online sale

Score looks from Toronto Fashion Week designers during Gilt’s online sale

Toronto Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 , which begins this evening, will bring with it a slew of springtime shows from Canadian...

The Find: a Fashion Week–worthy clutch that'll get you noticed for all the right reasons

The Find: a Fashion Week–worthy clutch that’ll get you noticed for all the right reasons

Quirky clutches are definitely having a moment: this past month saw street-style stars around the world grasping bags shaped like...

Store Guide: Tanya Heath Paris, the chic footwear label that lets you switch heels

Store Guide: Tanya Heath Paris, the chic footwear label that lets you switch heels

Name: Tanya Heath Paris Sells: Women's footwear and interchangeable heels Contact info: 7-138 Cumberland...

Swedish brand J. Lindeberg is opening its first Canadian flagship at Queen and Spadina

Stockholm-based J. Lindeberg, an upscale lifestyle and sportswear label with flagships all over Europe and the States, is opening...

Store Guide: Latre Art and Style, a unique concept shop stocked with African artifacts and military apparel

Store Guide: Latre Art and Style, a unique concept shop stocked with African artifacts and military apparel

Name: Latre Art and Style Sells: Upcycled unisex apparel, artwork, African artifacts, vintage items Contact Info: 2988 Dundas...

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Best New Restaurants

Toronto Life ’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks

Big Stories

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

It’s hard out here for a 20-something

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”

Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian

Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian

In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us

Just Listed

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

Guelph is having a moment

For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd

For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd

A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer