Street Style: WORNettes and readers celebrate the indie fashion journal’s final issue
Street Style: WORNettes and readers celebrate the indie fashion journal’s final issue
After 10 years and 20 issues, independent fashion journal WORN, often referred to as the “style bible for fashion nerds,” launched its last-ever issue at Saturday night’s annual Black Cat Ball. The happy, sock hop–inspired event brought out a bunch of loyal readers, most of whom were stylishly dressed in black-and-white, with some sporting subtle feline accents (cat ears, tails). The WORNettes—i.e. the magazine’s staff and contributors—were there, too, and ready to talk about what WORN meant to them and to Toronto. Here’s what everyone had to say.
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- <b>Name:</b> Anna Fitzpatrick<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 24<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Writer<br /> <br /> “Basically, <em>WORN</em> was more important to me than any school.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Eliza Robin<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 25<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Stylist<br /><br /> “The <em>WORN</em> community is amazing. I’m so emotional about how this magazine has impacted Toronto.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Jennifer Nguyen<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 26<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Midwifery student<br /><br /> “I’m new to <em>WORN,</em> but I came because my roommate said ‘we gotta go to this party.’ I bought the cat ears and tail at the merch booth.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Denise McMullin<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 27<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Student<br /><br /> “I’ve been reading <em>WORN</em> for, I think, nine years. I actually shot a flyer for this party four years ago.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Haley Mlotek<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 28<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Editor (thehairpin.com); publisher, (<em>WORN</em>)<br /><br /> “I interviewed to be an intern at <em>WORN.</em> Immediately, the three of us knew that it would work, and I then became the publisher.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Adam Kope<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 29<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Lawyer<br /><br /> “I’m on a date... I’m the one who suggested coming here.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Lauren FitzGibbon<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 24<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Business analyst<br /><br /> “<em>WORN</em> had a healthy way of looking at fashion. I’m worried about what’s going to happen—who’s going to fill that spot—now that it’s finished.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Bodhi Connor<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 23<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Sociology student<br /><br /> “I’ll miss the <em>WORN</em> editorials. I feel like they’re the thing I fantasized about doing most as a teenager, but didn’t have the friends to do it with.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Casey Brown<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 37<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Seamstress<br /><br /> “This is all a part of a Cosplay costume. I feel like Regina the Evil Queen from <em>Once Upon a Time.</em>”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Danielle Suppa<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 29<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Designer<br /><br /> “I always read <em>WORN</em> cover-to-cover with a cup of tea.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Danica Drago<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 23<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Ceramicist <br /><br /> “Fashion is such a touchy thing…With <em>WORN’</em>s help, I’ve come to embrace my own style, in the last while.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Jillian Linton<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 21<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Server<br /><br /> “They’ve been throwing wild parties for ages—this is my final chance to come to one.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Randi Bergman<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 29<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Executive editor (fashionmagazine.com)<br /><br /> “I feel like I’m in a high school dance from <em>Back To The Future,</em> but instead of Marty McFly, there’s cute girls with cat ears.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Kelsey Adams<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 19<br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Journalism student<br /><br /> “It was so important for me to come and celebrate the end of an era. <em>WORN</em> meant a lot to Toronto fashion.”<br />
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- <b>Name:</b> Patrick Lingenco<br /><br /> <b>Age:</b> 25 <br /><br /> <b>Profession:</b> Graphic designer<br /><br /> “I’ll miss just how fun the parties are. You never know what to expect.”<br />
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After 10 years and 20 issues, independent fashion journal WORN, often referred to as the "style bible for fashion nerds," launched its last-ever issue at Saturday night's annual Black Cat Ball. The happy, sock hop–inspired event brought out a bunch of loyal readers, most of whom were stylishly dressed in black-and-white, with some sporting subtle feline accents (cat ears, tails). The WORNettes—i.e. the magazine's staff and contributors—were there, too, and ready to talk about what WORN meant to them and to Toronto. Here's what everyone had to say.
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We’ve made one small correction to the article—we said that someone who’s 29 years old was 19.