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Year in Review: the 20 best street style looks of 2013

Year in Review: the 20 best street style looks of 2013

If we learned one thing from roaming the city for our Street Style series this year, it’s that Torontonians are good...

Year in Review: 45 fascinating Toronto shopping destinations that launched in 2013

Year in Review: 45 fascinating Toronto shopping destinations that launched in 2013

2013 was a boom year for Toronto’s retail scene. Malls and shopping strips welcomed a raft of new international retailers, from...

Store Guide: Young and Tae, a new store on Queen West that sells stylish leather boots for under $200

Store Guide: Young and Tae, a new store on Queen West that sells stylish leather boots for under $200

Name: Young & Tae Sells: Women’s leather shoes, boots, purses and accessories Contact info: 630A Queen...

Lucian Matis launches a home décor holiday pop-up at The Shops at Don Mills

Lucian Matis launches a home décor holiday pop-up at The Shops at Don Mills

Lucian Matis was a runner-up on the first season of Project Runway Canada back in 2007. Since brushing off the loss, the...

American jeweller David Yurman is now open at Yorkdale

American jeweller David Yurman is now open at Yorkdale

avé diamonds. Style-conscious men will appreciate the jeweller’s handsome watches and simple decorative pieces, including a new...

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.

PHOTO: Drake is designing shoes for Nike, and Instagramming about it

PHOTO: Drake is designing shoes for Nike, and Instagramming about it

The Toronto-born hiphopper went online this week to flaunt the results of his “labour” as Nike ’s brand-new celeb...

You’ll never guess who owns Canada Goose now

It's Mitt Romney 's former company. Bain Capital , a private-equity firm co-founded by the Republicans’ losing 2012 presidential...

Eaton Centre Casanovas: So-called “pickup artists” are hitting the mall en masse to try and seduce women

Eaton Centre Casanovas: So-called “pickup artists” are hitting the mall en masse to try and seduce women

The 2005 bestselling memoir The Game unmasked the world of pickup artists: self-proclaimed Casanovas obsessed with scoring with...

ClearlyContacts.ca opens a brick-and-mortar store on Queen West

ClearlyContacts.ca opens a brick-and-mortar store on Queen West

After launching two hugely successful stores in Vancouver earlier this year, the country’s largest online eyewear retailer has...

Saks Fifth Avenue is going to replace (and transform) The Bay at Yonge and Bloor

Saks Fifth Avenue is going to replace (and transform) The Bay at Yonge and Bloor

Watch out, Holts : another luxury department store is staking its claim on the Mink Mile. Saks Fifth Avenue —which was recently...

House Style: a family-centric Wychwood home owned by a Holt Renfrew exec and an entrepreneur

House Style: a family-centric Wychwood home owned by a Holt Renfrew exec and an entrepreneur

As a PR executive for Holt Renfrew, Wright owns an envious collection of Céline and Hermès—pieces of art in and of...

House Style: a pair of clothing entrepreneurs’ kid-friendly apartment in Forest Hill

House Style: a pair of clothing entrepreneurs’ kid-friendly apartment in Forest Hill

Carly and her husband, Jesse, are professionally laid-back. They started a line of high-end sweats and hoodies in 2007 before...

Tumi arrives at Yorkdale with indestructible luggage and sleek, functional leather accessories

Tumi arrives at Yorkdale with indestructible luggage and sleek, functional leather accessories

Tumi, the American company known for its everlasting luggage, is the latest international brand to break into Canada via...

POLL: Are you underwhelmed by Target Canada?

POLL: Are you underwhelmed by Target Canada?

The American retail giant’s dismal third-quarter earnings are yet more evidence that its ballyhooed Canadian expansion missed...

Store Guide: Da Zoo, a King West boutique with an impressive lineup of avant-garde designers

Store Guide: Da Zoo, a King West boutique with an impressive lineup of avant-garde designers

Name: Da Zo0 Sells: Avant-garde menswear, womenswear, accessories and shoes Contact info: 613 King...

John Varvatos brings his high-end, rock-and-roll menswear to Yorkdale Shopping Centre

John Varvatos brings his high-end, rock-and-roll menswear to Yorkdale Shopping Centre

Menswear designer John Varvatos, known as much for his rock’n’roller friends as his rocker aesthetic, has landed in...

Store Guide: Montreal knitwear label Ça Va De Soi opens a Yorkville shop full of beautifully made sweaters

Store Guide: Montreal knitwear label Ça Va De Soi opens a Yorkville shop full of beautifully made sweaters

Name: Ça Va De Soi Sells: High-quality knitwear for women, with a few pieces for men Contact: 138 Cumberland Street, Unit 5, Old...

Great Spaces: Take tours of four of Toronto's boldest, boxiest new homes

Great Spaces: Take tours of four of Toronto’s boldest, boxiest new homes

Torontonians are finally rejecting fussy Victorian architecture and going bold. In almost every neighbourhood, there’s a house...

SLIDESHOW: A tour of Madonna’s new Toronto gym—which is full of close-ups photos of her face

SLIDESHOW: A tour of Madonna’s new Toronto gym—which is full of close-ups photos of her face

Madonna, the original VMA shock performer, is still flexing her celebrity status. And her sinewed upper body. The superstar’s...

Dutch suiting brand Suitsupply will open a store in Yorkville in January

Back in March, Dutch suit specialist Suitsupply said it would launch its first Canadian store in Yorkville by fall. The menswear...

LAB Consignment is now selling its designer wares online

LAB Consignment is now selling its designer wares online

For label-lovers who despaired after uptown boutique LAB Consignment shut its doors in October, take heart: the upscale women’s...

A Toronto tailor is making $20,000 bulletproof suits (and people are actually buying them)

A Toronto tailor is making $20,000 bulletproof suits (and people are actually buying them)

What do you do when you’re a rich guy with an ultra-dangerous job and a flair for style? You drop $20,000 on a custom...

Six of Toronto’s most inspiring home decor blogs

Six of Toronto’s most inspiring home decor blogs

Toronto has its share of home-grown decor blogs. Here, to separate the frou-frou from the fabulous, six of our...

SLIDESHOW: All the clothing Team Canada will be wearing at the 2014 Sochi Olympics

SLIDESHOW: All the clothing Team Canada will be wearing at the 2014 Sochi Olympics

With less than 100 days to go before the festivities begin in Sochi, Hudson’s Bay has revealed Team Canada’s look for the 2014...

Shopping

What actor Paul Gross loves about Stratford

What actor Paul Gross loves about Stratford

The silver-fox thespian takes us on a tour of his go-to spots in Festival City

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

Great Spaces

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