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Best Dressed
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A roundup of the glitziest, best-dressed stars of TIFF 2022
Hollywood’s biggest names delivered show-stopping fashion choices
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Culture
You decide: Who dressed the best at these TIFF parties?
Pass judgment on Benicio Del Toro, Brie Larson, Patrick Stewart and other TIFF 2015 celebs
Culture
You decide: which male celeb dressed the best on the first weekend of TIFF?
TIFF red carpet premieres, September 10–13: Demolition , Remember , Freeheld , The Martian and Equals . Ebert Tribute...
Culture
You decide: which female celeb dressed the best on the first weekend of TIFF?
TIFF red carpet premieres, September 10—13: Demolition , Eye in the Sky, About Ray, Sicario, Freeheld, The Lobster, Miss You...
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Toronto’s Best Dressed 2014: our annual list of the city’s most stylish people
Twenty-three Torontonians, from shopkeepers to enterpeneurs to heiresses, who paint a portrait of a supremely stylish city Chloe...
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at our 2014 best-dressed list
Toronto Life Stylebook , which features our annual best-dressed list, is for sale today on newsstands and online , and our...
Style
Spring Style: seven chic Torontonians interpret the top trends of the season
Spring’s best looks are refreshingly bold: big florals, sporty tracksuits and punchy tropical hues. We recruited a team of...
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Spring Style: The New Boho
Free-spirited Torontonians now spend their vacations eco-trekking in Laos and road-tripping through Morocco, collecting handmade...
Style
Spring Style: The Sporting Life
First, the buyers and editors at Fashion Week started wearing varsity jackets. Then, the wedge sneaker—a high heel–running...
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Spring Style: Prim and Proper
For a decade, womenswear lines have been stealing from men’s closets (see the boyfriend jean, the slouchy blazer, the tasselled...
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Spring Style: Tropical Punch
It’s the perennial summer conundrum: how to dress for sweltering temperatures while maintaining a professional, city-slick...
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Spring Style: Back in Black
Many Toronto designers, architects and fashion industry types avoid the bright hues in shop windows come spring, adhering...
Style
Coco Rocha rocked New York Fashion Week—and looked perfect every day
Typically, models show up for runway shows looking pointedly casual in ripped jeans and a beanie, à la Cara Delevingne. But...
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Toronto’s Best Dressed 2013: our annual list of the city’s most stylish people
These 22 sartorial heroes have a passion for fashion and a rare talent for putting together outfits that make heads turn—and...
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The best and worst fashion of TIFF 2013
If seeing a slew of great movies is the very best part of TIFF, scrutinizing the stars’ red carpet ensembles has to be a close...
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TIFF Fashion: the best-dressed stars on the weekend’s red carpets
After a strong showing on opening night, TIFF’s leading men and women continued to display their sartorial chops over the...
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Sarah Gadon is ready to heat up Hollywood
Sarah Gadon lies motionless in a bed, luminous as a light bulb against a backdrop of crisp white linen. Her lips are painted a...
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Memoir: my first hat transformed me from awkward teenager into fashion Zelig. I still use them as a disguise
On my 16th birthday, my mother gave me a wide-brimmed black wool hat from a store on Queen West. Like most teenagers, I felt...
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Memoir: Luminato artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt on why he loves a bit of bling
One day, not so long ago, I was looking in a mirror after getting dressed for the Met Gala, and I was blinded by my reflection. I...
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Slideshow: the most memorable fashion moments from the 2013 MMVAs
MuchMusic’ s annual award-show-slash-star-studded-concert is usually a hotbed of crazy get-ups, but this year’s MMVAs was...
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Slideshow: the stories behind 10 of the city’s most distinctive hairstyles
Anyone from David Lee Roth to the elves from can inspire a killer haircut. Here, a model, a society matron, a jewellery designer...
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Model Citizens: 22 stylish Torontonians demonstrate how to wear the season’s top trends
Some of the city’s savviest sartorialists interpret the trends you’ll see everywhere this spring, from double-breasted suits...
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What to wear on Valentine’s Day: three slick looks for the fellas
We understand why guys feel stressed about Valentine’s Day. They’re expected to find the perfect gift, plan a romantic night...
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What to wear on Valentine’s Day: three stylish outfits for women
On Valentine’s Day restaurants that are normally packed with plaid and jeans are suddenly full of suits and cocktail...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand