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Fairfax Financial Holdings buys William Ashley, ensuring that all fancy tea parties can still be had

Fairfax Financial Holdings buys William Ashley, ensuring that all fancy tea parties can still be had

Yesterday, Fairfax Financial Holdings announced that it had bought family-owned Canadian retailer William Ashley, though the terms...

Expensive jeans for everyone, as Seven For All Mankind opens at Yorkdale

Expensive jeans for everyone, as Seven For All Mankind opens at Yorkdale

Seven For All Mankind , one of the pioneers of the obscenely expensive denim trend in those heady early noughties, opened a...

Someone from Elle Magazine (Joe Zee, creative director) is coming to Toronto, but he’s from Toronto originally

Someone from Elle Magazine (Joe Zee, creative director) is coming to Toronto, but he’s from Toronto originally

It isn’t every day that the international fashion media grace us with their presence (last season’s Joe Fresh and Pink Tartan...

Behind the Music: Amy Winehouse’s capsule collection for Fred Perry will roll out as planned

Behind the Music: Amy Winehouse’s capsule collection for Fred Perry will roll out as planned

By now, we’ve all heard about the untimely demise of favourite soul sister Amy Winehouse , but if the unending RIPs and "too...

Coco Rocha will team up with Jacob for its fall 2011 campaign

Coco Rocha will team up with Jacob for its fall 2011 campaign

There are Photoshop disasters everywhere we turn, but last year Jacob announced that they were creating a “no retouching...

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.

Linda Evangelista’s son apparently can’t get out of bed for less than $46,000 a month

Linda Evangelista’s son apparently can’t get out of bed for less than $46,000 a month

Considering supermodel and Canada Walk of Fame inductee Linda Evangelista famously told Vogue in 1990, “[Supermodels] don’t...

Reason to hate New York: its fashion week is taking Juma (but we still support Alia and Jamil)

Reason to hate New York: its fashion week is taking Juma (but we still support Alia and Jamil)

Toronto fashion can sometimes feel like the shallow end of a pool—there are plenty of bodies, but only a few good...

Introducing: Fiber Living, an outdoor furniture shop on King Street East that’s also a gallery (and an event space)

Introducing: Fiber Living, an outdoor furniture shop on King Street East that’s also a gallery (and an event space)

The place: Part outdoor furniture store, part gallery, part event space, there’s a lot going on at this place on a side street...

Crate and Barrel’s CB2 announces it will open for fall 2011 on Queen West

Crate and Barrel’s CB2 announces it will open for fall 2011 on Queen West

It was announced this week that CB2 (Crate and Barrel’s younger, hipper line of home decor items) is expecting to open its doors...

Like Aritzia? Its cooler sister, Wilfred, is opening up its first Canadian boutique in Toronto this August

Like Aritzia? Its cooler sister, Wilfred, is opening up its first Canadian boutique in Toronto this August

Aritzia is one of those brands most women can enjoy, because the clothes are fairly unassuming, trendy and mid- to high-end. The...

The Joe Fresh empire is spreading like wildfire in North America

The Joe Fresh empire is spreading like wildfire in North America

Mr. Joe Fresh, Joe Mimran , has been busy this summer with more than just keeping up his George Hamilton–worthy...

Pamela Anderson: from Dancing with the Stars to designing lingerie

Pamela Anderson: from Dancing with the Stars to designing lingerie

• Pamela Anderson designs range of couture stockings [Daily Mail]

VIDEO: Coco Rocha, Behati Prinsloo and James Conran make a documentary

No one will ever say that making a documentary is a bad idea when the cast includes two supermodels like Coco Rocha and Behati...

Five womenswear-friendly brands we wish would open up flagships in Toronto but, for whatever reason, are not

Five womenswear-friendly brands we wish would open up flagships in Toronto but, for whatever reason, are not

We took care of the gents yesterday, but certainly haven’t forgotten about women’s needs—just like menswear, a range of...

Five menswear-friendly brands we wish would open up flagships in Toronto but, for whatever reason, are not

Five menswear-friendly brands we wish would open up flagships in Toronto but, for whatever reason, are not

Given the tremendous support Topman has received as it slowly joins Toronto’s fashion market, we thought we’d talk about...

Oh, brother: Oprah Winfrey teams with Carson Kressley to create a “no-nonsense” travelling makeover show

Oh, brother: Oprah Winfrey teams with Carson Kressley to create a “no-nonsense” travelling makeover show

Last we saw, Carson Kressley was dressing dumpy men—who, frankly, looked better when they weren’t wearing the...

VIDEO: Toronto filmmaker Justin Wu teams up with Dolce and Gabbana

Toronto-based (but constantly jet-setting) Justin Wu has shot videos all over the world, including his now-famous Boys of Fashion...

Sarah Jessica Parker no longer has one of her jobs

Sarah Jessica Parker no longer has one of her jobs

Sarah Jessica Parker just graced the cover of Vogue ’s age issue (with every last wrinkle Photoshopped out of existence), and...

Behind the Scenes: at MAC cosmetics’ factory headquarters in, um, Markham, Ontario

Behind the Scenes: at MAC cosmetics’ factory headquarters in, um, Markham, Ontario

We recently had the opportunity to take a party bus to MAC headquarters (all the way up the 404), where, as some people may find...

David Thomson goes big and stays home with his recent expansion idea

David Thomson goes big and stays home with his recent expansion idea

Rosedale, that leafy enclave that houses the ladies who lunch and power broker set, is abuzz with rumours about David Thomson...

Toronto Fashion Week producer Jarrad Clark tackles Australian reality TV

Project Runway Australia is one of the most watched versions of the hit reality TV franchise (after the original American...

Jose Bautista accepts his ruby slippers from New Balance

Jose Bautista accepts his ruby slippers from New Balance

He’s already the marquee attraction on Canada’s only Major League team and baseball’s fastest rising star , and now the...

Great Spaces: A Toronto screenwriting couple steals a home renovation idea from their own show

Great Spaces: A Toronto screenwriting couple steals a home renovation idea from their own show

Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer met at film school in Vancouver more than 15 years ago and have been romantically and...

Canada’s first Ben Sherman store is opening for men only this fall

Canada’s first Ben Sherman store is opening for men only this fall

We were somewhat miffed when we found out that J.Crew wouldn’t be stocking their menswear just yet, but when one door...

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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