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Gallery: 16 looks from Amanda Lew Kee’s all-grown-up spring/summer 2012 collection

Gallery: 16 looks from Amanda Lew Kee’s all-grown-up spring/summer 2012 collection

Check out all of the hits and misses from Amanda Lew Kee’ s spring/summer 2012 show at Toronto Fashion Week, including...

THE SCENE: Stacey McKenzie served ham—figuratively speaking—on night one of Toronto Fashion Week

THE SCENE: Stacey McKenzie served ham—figuratively speaking—on night one of Toronto Fashion Week

It was a full house on the first night of fashion week, from Holt Renfrew’s pre-show cocktail to the lineups for passes, lineups...

Toronto Fashion Week trends: furries

Toronto Fashion Week trends: furries

No doubt, fur is one of the markers of class, prestige, sophistication and what some fashion magazines refer to ad nauseam as...

Arthur Mendonça’s return to Toronto Fashion Week is a smash hit

Arthur Mendonça’s return to Toronto Fashion Week is a smash hit

Arthur Mendonça, fresh from a triumphant return to fashion week last season, showed another collection sure to wow buyers and...

GALLERY: 43 looks from Arthur Mendonça’s spring/summer 2012 show at Toronto Fashion Week

GALLERY: 43 looks from Arthur Mendonça’s spring/summer 2012 show at Toronto Fashion Week

Check out all of the hits and misses from Arthur Mendonça’ s spring/summer 2012 show at Toronto Fashion Week, including...

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.

Holt Renfrew proves that it carries the brands most women want on night one of Toronto Fashion Week

Holt Renfrew proves that it carries the brands most women want on night one of Toronto Fashion Week

Toronto Fashion Week began as it always does: street style photographers like WWD’ s James Lourenço found many targets, like...

GALLERY: 58 looks from Holt Renfrew’s There’s No Place Like Holts spring/summer 2012 runway

GALLERY: 58 looks from Holt Renfrew’s There’s No Place Like Holts spring/summer 2012 runway

Check out all of the hits and misses from Toronto Fashion Week’s opening show, There’s No Place Like Holts, complete with...

Todd Lynn packs the house at the Ritz-Carlton for the last runway of “the ShOws” series

Todd Lynn packs the house at the Ritz-Carlton for the last runway of “the ShOws” series

Todd Lynn closed out “the ShOws” at the Ritz-Carlton on Friday with the busiest crowd we’d seen that week. Rumours swirled...

Jean-Pierre Braganza’s spring/summer 2012 collection draws oohs and awws from the most frigid fashion editors

Jean-Pierre Braganza’s spring/summer 2012 collection draws oohs and awws from the most frigid fashion editors

Day two of “the ShOws” at the Ritz-Carlton started off with Jean-Pierre Braganza , a Toronto expat and mainstay of London...

Thirty fantastic prints from Calla Haynes’s spring/summer 2012 show at the Ritz-Carlton

Thirty fantastic prints from Calla Haynes’s spring/summer 2012 show at the Ritz-Carlton

The second show of the “ShOws” series held at the Ritz Carlton was by Torontonian Calla Haynes and her eponymous line...

Thomas Tait evokes “haute turtles” and much hotter versions of Jay-Z and Kanye West at his spring/summer 2012 show

Thomas Tait evokes “haute turtles” and much hotter versions of Jay-Z and Kanye West at his spring/summer 2012 show

“The ShOws” (no one has given us an answer to why there’s a capital O in the name) is a series of runway presentations to...

Pop Pop Shoppe at Paramour to feature a slew of Toronto-based designers

Pop Pop Shoppe at Paramour to feature a slew of Toronto-based designers

’Tis the season to pop-up shop, and keeping with that spirit, Toronto-based brands Muttonhead and Label are hosting their very...

One boy’s journey into the world of beauty and glamour: backstage at Greta Constantine spring/summer 2012

One boy’s journey into the world of beauty and glamour: backstage at Greta Constantine spring/summer 2012

While the clothes always take center stage (or runway, as it were) at fashion shows, the beauty component is an equally important...

Calla Haynes, Thomas Tait, Todd Lynn and Jean Pierre Braganza are going rogue at the Ritz-Carlton

Calla Haynes, Thomas Tait, Todd Lynn and Jean Pierre Braganza are going rogue at the Ritz-Carlton

Calla Haynes, Thomas Tait, Todd Lynn and Jean Pierre Braganza are Canadian designers who live abroad, typically making a name for...

Lucian Matis is the second down the rogue runway at the off-site shows

Lucian Matis is the second down the rogue runway at the off-site shows

Lucian Matis held his spring/summer 2012 Rogue Fashion Week show at event space 99 Sudbury for a packed crowd of tastemaking...

Greta Constantine draws a big crowd at Century Room (yes, that Century Room) for the kick-off to Rogue Fashion Week

Greta Constantine draws a big crowd at Century Room (yes, that Century Room) for the kick-off to Rogue Fashion Week

Rogue Fashion Week is upon us, and Greta Constantine kicked it off last night with a show and after-party at King West’s Century...

Great Spaces: a pair of German expat Canadaphiles build the house they had been dreaming about for 30 years

Great Spaces: a pair of German expat Canadaphiles build the house they had been dreaming about for 30 years

Georg and Petra Unger first came to Canada for a series of cross-country road trips in the early ’80s, eager to see the...

The subject-to-change Toronto Fashion Week schedule has been subject to change

The subject-to-change Toronto Fashion Week schedule has been subject to change

Fashion trends change almost every minute, and so do fashion week schedules—as we promised, there have been plenty of changes...

Vogue Hommes International editor Francesco Cominelli found dead in his apartment last week

Vogue Hommes International editor Francesco Cominelli found dead in his apartment last week

Vogues Hommes International editor Francesco Cominelli was found dead in his Paris apartment this past Friday, and it’s being...

Introducing: Cutler and Gross, a Yorkville boutique for the bespectacled man and woman

Introducing: Cutler and Gross, a Yorkville boutique for the bespectacled man and woman

The place: Cutler and Gross, Yorkville’s newest boutique, already has loyal fans among international A-listers (Elton John, for...

Paris Fashion Week welcomes Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Princess Charlene of Monaco and a DSquared shop on Rue Saint-Honoré

Paris Fashion Week welcomes Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Princess Charlene of Monaco and a DSquared shop on Rue Saint-Honoré

It is Paris Fashion Week, and celebrities from near and far have made appearances: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen popped by Kanye...

Toronto’s second ever Gay Wedding Show to take place on October 16

Toronto’s second ever Gay Wedding Show to take place on October 16

The State of New York approved same-sex marriage earlier this summer and Ontario passed a similar law back in 2003, yet we...

Introducing: Riant Boutique, a sparkly King West boutique packed with clothes (and one cute puppy)

Introducing: Riant Boutique, a sparkly King West boutique packed with clothes (and one cute puppy)

The place: A quick wander around Bathurst south of King Street should confirm that the area is slowly morphing into a place worthy...

Lucian Matis hits it big in the metropolis of Saskatoon

Lucian Matis hits it big in the metropolis of Saskatoon

We Torontonians love our own Lucian Matis , but we recognize that our little hamlet can’t hold a rising star forever: we teared...

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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