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Dressing for TIFF: Borrowing glad rags with Emily Hampshire

Dressing for TIFF: Borrowing glad rags with Emily Hampshire

We hope The Trotsky turns out to be the big break for winsome Canadian actress Emily Hampshire , if only so we can tell our kids...

Just Opened: Murale launches its first Toronto location at the Shops at Don Mills

Just Opened: Murale launches its first Toronto location at the Shops at Don Mills

Score another one for the Shops at Don Mills. The city’s first Murale store, Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation’s answer to...

Just Opened: West Salon and Spa puts a pretty face on Queen West

Just Opened: West Salon and Spa puts a pretty face on Queen West

Sandwiched neatly between Brooklynn Bar and The Beaver , the recently opened West Salon and Spa is a bit out of place among the...

Just opened: Carbon makes its footprint on midtown

Just opened: Carbon makes its footprint on midtown

Consider Carbon, the new jeans and T-shirt boutique on the Yonge strip north of Eglinton, more as owner Alex Mazelow’s giant...

TIFF’s 12 Best Dressed

In time for TIFF, we rolled out the red carpet and played dress-up with some of the most stylish people in the city’s film...

Inside the Latest Issue

The July issue of Toronto Life features the monster cottages of Muskoka versus the resistance. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

Just opened: Ewanika gets a fresh start on Bathurst

Just opened: Ewanika gets a fresh start on Bathurst

After more than a decade on College, designer Trish Ewanika has moved her womenswear boutique to Bathurst Street, south of...

Just opened: Brooks Brothers suits Bay Streeters just fine

Just opened: Brooks Brothers suits Bay Streeters just fine

Brooks Brothers—the 192-year-old company that has dressed nearly every American president from Lincoln to Kennedy to Obama and...

Fall trends: a sign of the (rough) times?

We’ve been put through the wringer a fair bit over the past year, and fall’s tough-as-nails looks are an armoured...

Cause Célèbre: Let’s dress TIFF stars out of the Style Box

Cause Célèbre: Let’s dress TIFF stars out of the Style Box

On Thursday, Gail McInnes and Amanda Brugel flung open the Style Box , a Canadian designer showroom and celeb-dressing service...

The Leslieville Guide: 26 essential destinations for shopping, eating and drinking

The Leslieville Guide: 26 essential destinations for shopping, eating and drinking

This east-end neighbourhood is constantly being labelled “the next big thing.” Yet it’s been seven years since Edward...

Top stylist Allan Parss tells us why a $150 cut is worth it

Top stylist Allan Parss tells us why a $150 cut is worth it

If the influx of blow-dry salons in the city is any indication, we are visiting our stylists a lot less these days. Fewer cuts...

Just opened: Cubeshops brings Japanese design to Baldwin Street

Just opened: Cubeshops brings Japanese design to Baldwin Street

The recently opened Cubeshops is almost lost in the sea of bars and restaurants lining a popular stretch of Baldwin Street, but...

Made in Toronto: 15 designs that do us proud

The city is so full of people creating exciting furniture, clothing, beauty products and accessories that the idea of buying local...

Just opened: Burberry quietly unveils its Yorkdale store today

Just opened: Burberry quietly unveils its Yorkdale store today

Rumours have been circulating this summer about the opening of two Burberry stores in Toronto, and while we managed confirm...

Just Opened: the Style Box designer showroom

Just Opened: the Style Box designer showroom

Pretty young things who find their names in boldface on the society pages can look forward to a fresh shopping destination for...

Two major shopping events launching this weekend

Every Friday, torontolife.com publishes The Weekender, a roundup of the city's best weekend events. We usually cover major...

Home made: Reinventing a Cabbagetown row house

Home made: Reinventing a Cabbagetown row house

In 2000, Todd Caldwell, a landscape and floral designer, and Shaun Moore, then a furniture design student at Sheridan, started...

Toronto's Best Dressed: Kenia Avendano

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Kenia Avendano

Black-on-black outfits can easily verge on boring, but this week’s best dressed—spotted on Ossington Avenue—is an...

Helen Pak tells us how the creative class should dress

Helen Pak tells us how the creative class should dress

As the creative director of Saatchi and Saatchi’ s Toronto offices, Helen Pak knows how to make a lasting impression. We met up...

Inside the semi-controversial downtown Leon's, set to open in July

Inside the semi-controversial downtown Leon’s, set to open in July

Donning construction helmets and fluorescent red vests, the media took a preview tour of the John Street Roundhouse yesterday as...

Toronto's Best Dressed: Biko Beauttah

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Biko Beauttah

Head-to-toe Chanel is a style statement most women can only dream of making. But then, Biko Beauttah is not your typical lady who...

My Style: Ashley Rowe

My Style: Ashley Rowe

Ashley Rowe graduated from George Brown’s fashion management program just three years ago, yet the 26-year-old designer already...

The best shopping at Yonge and Eglinton

The best shopping at Yonge and Eglinton

An influx of indie boutiques and upscale shops is quickly remaking this area—formerly more big box than fashion forward—into a...

Toronto's Best Dressed: Elena Soboleva

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Elena Soboleva

Dressing for a theme party can be a trick: ignore the wardrobe instructions and risk looking indifferent; go too far and one may...

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From summer fashion finds to patio hopping, here’s what’s in store at Bloor-Yorkville this season

From summer fashion finds to patio hopping, here’s what’s in store at Bloor-Yorkville this season

Featuring retailers, ice cream and coffee on sun-kissed patios with the return of CaféTO and Summer Music in the Park

How an iGaming platform is giving back to the northern Ontario community

How an iGaming platform is giving back to the northern Ontario community

By bridging the gap between digital play and physical bingo halls, Betty is redefining the gaming industry to ensure that local communities always win.

Five ways to prepare for the ultimate watch party experience, at home or on the go

Five ways to prepare for the ultimate watch party experience, at home or on the go

Enjoy the soccer game anywhere with immersive tech that feels like a win

What Dora-winning actor Hailey Gillis loves about the Beaches

What Dora-winning actor Hailey Gillis loves about the Beaches

The acclaimed thespian takes us on a tour of her favourite haunts

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Inside an art dealer’s 430-square-foot apartment crammed with paintings

Inside an art dealer’s 430-square-foot apartment crammed with paintings

Janos Toth began collecting works by Inuk artist Floyd Kuptana last year. He now has 42 on display

Inside painter Janna Watson's minimalist studio in a Grey County forest

Inside painter Janna Watson’s minimalist studio in a Grey County forest

A weathered steel exterior renders the building virtually invisible from the road

This couple turned a Dundas West Victorian into a dark and sultry Hollywood Regency palace

This couple turned a Dundas West Victorian into a dark and sultry Hollywood Regency palace

“I want it to feel like an Old Hollywood actress retired and then went thrifting”

Inside a technicolour rural farmhouse lovingly restored by director Eva Michon and musician Sebastien Grainger

Inside a technicolour rural farmhouse lovingly restored by director Eva Michon and musician Sebastien Grainger

Turns out the guy from Death From Above 1979 is really good at renovations