THE SCENE: J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons and Mickey Drexler hosted a party at Yorkdale
THE SCENE: J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons and Mickey Drexler hosted a party at Yorkdale
The opening of Canada’s first J.Crew (and, for that matter, the first J.Crew outside of the U.S.) was bound to attract some attention. Even those who say that they get a nosebleed north of Bloor trudged up to Yorkdale—though we heard at least six people complain about the trek—to get a peek at the women’s-only boutique. The fashion media was there in full force, including Now magazine’s fashion editor Andrew Sardone, the Globe and Mail’s Tiyana Grulovic, Maggie Wrobel and Amy Verner, the National Post’s Nathalie Atkinson, Fashion magazine’s Randi Bergman and Bernadette Morra, Flare magazine’s Jennifer Campbell, Ryan Cheung and Mosha Lundström-Halbert, the Star’s Derick Chetty, freelancer Sarah Nicole Prickett, BlogTO’s Briony Smith and bloggers galore—if a bomb went off, the city would have no one left to write about pretty frilly things. Find out who else was there in our gallery after the jump. The media mingled with the typical boldface names you see at these things, like Suzanne Cohon and Traci Melchor, and sipped vodka lemonades (better than Mike’s Hard, trust us)—served by impossibly good-looking J.Crew–esque male models waiters—with CEO Mickey Drexler (celebrating his 67th birthday) and creative director Jenna Lyons. Lyons, braless with a sparkling, sequined emerald-green skirt and rumoured to be well over six feet in heels (she certainly towered over us), premiered her new ’do while igniting at least 50 new girl-crushes. As we left, we saw a scrum of teens attempting to get into the iconic temple of preppy-dom, but they left defeated and had to wait one whole day to look like mini–Blair Waldorfs.
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- Allie Sayeed channels an haute Paula Poundstone, and writer Sarah Nicole Prickett is either flirting or hungry. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- We refuse to make a joke about an adorable baby. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- It’s great to see Pete Doherty getting out there again. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- Some people showed up to the party wearing current J. Crew pieces. Good for them. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- How embarrassing for Tim Chan, who is wearing the same outfit as his beverage. It’s like the Kelly and Brenda prom dress fiasco all over again. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- Ladies were excited. It was written all over their faces. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- Suzanne Cohon and Nathalie Atkinson need everyone—especially J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler (right)—to know they made the first purchases. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- Kimberly Lyn, blogger and shoe fetishist. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- <em>Flare</em> magazine’s Jennifer Campbell (centre) is thinking, “Are you for real?” and Karen Cleveland (right) likes the cut of Sara Duck’s jib. Sara Duck, oddly enough, sports duckface. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- J. Crew is <em>clearly</em> a go-to shop for black-tie regalia, so it’s important to dress the part, like <em>Fashion</em> magazine’s Bernadette Morra. Her girlfriends Traci Melchor and Michelle Levy did not get the memo. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- We witnessed this conversation between J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons and writer Sarah Nicole Prickett. (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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- J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler celebrated his 67th birthday with president and creative director Jenna Lyons. Who would choose to spend their birthday party at Yorkdale mall? (Image: Stefania Yarhi)
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I am not too happy with the new prices. If I buy online, I’m still being charged duty, despite the prices reflecting that of the store. I realize that the new Canadian price is meant to factor in only part of shipping, but still since shipping is now a flat $9.95 US, but still.
Read my post about the situation here: http://www.delectablychic.com/2011/08/canadiajcrewprices/
Yet again, another lame attemt for TO Life to garner some attention using lame offensive captions. Congrats – another failure.
I agree wholeheartedly with the comment above. Maybe I am not an an avid enough Toronto Life reader to have already known this about the magazine, but I was shocked at the rude and negative captions in the album. What are you – Perez Hilton? Take a look at Globe Parties if you want to learn how to cover events with some class. Just lost a whole lot of respect for Toronto Life as a publication… if you can call it that.
Article Correction Re: First JCrew outside of US? Really?
J.Crew has been in Japan for at least 10yrs now.
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