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Sid Neigum eases up on the androgyny with a softer spring/summer 2013 collection
Every year during Rogue Fashion Week, emerging talents and established designers alike opt out of the Toronto Fashion Week melee...
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Party Pages: The Dark Knight Rises premiere after-party at Wayne Manor
One of the most anticipated films of the year, Christopher Nolan’ s The Dark Knight Rises, premiered last night at Scotiabank...
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Jeanne Beker found her inner model and WWE wrestler Trish Stratus found herself a man at the Dare to Wear Love gala
After a full week (and then some) of shows and parties, the fashion elite and well-to-do guests tend to let loose at the Dare to...
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GALLERY: 64 shots from the Dare to Wear Love show at Toronto Fashion Week
The Stephen Lewis Foundation hosted its annual celebrity-filled Dare to Wear Love show in support of HIV and AIDS relief efforts...
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David Dixon brought the elegance of Hitchcock and some weirdly sparse feathers to Toronto Fashion Week
As the end of this season’s fashion week marathon draws near, the fatigue is starting to show—after a socialite-heavy Pink...
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GALLERY: 61 shots from David Dixon’s fall/winter 2012 collection
This season David Dixon was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’ s The Birds, so of course there were feathers. We saw massive (and...
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David Dixon may not wow every season, but he’s a fixture in the industry for socialites and on The Shopping Channel
The penultimate fashion show, ending two long weeks of air kissing and finagling for front-row seats, was David Dixon’ s...
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Gallery: 62 looks from David Dixon’s spring/summer 2012 collection
Check out all of the hits and misses from the David Dixon spring/summer 2012 show at Toronto Fashion Week, including sheer...
The Weekender: International Festival of Authors, Operanation and six more items on our to do list
1. LG FASHION WEEK Some of the city’s more fashionable citizens have been accumulating this year behind Roy Thomson Hall to...
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Rent a dress, send it back: how to be frugal without having to keep the tags on
Dropping a couple of mortgage payments on a dress that may be worn only once was not always such a gauche sign of indulgence...
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Toronto Fashion Incubator’s New Labels gala-competition breaks fresh talent
Canada isn’t short on talent, but it sure is lacking opportunities to showcase it. That’s why, when one comes up, we like to...
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We escaped to Jakarta at David Dixon’s fall/winter LG Fashion Week show
Running an hour late amid on-again off-again cancellation rumours, David Dixon ’s “Escape to Jakarta” fall/winter showcase...
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PHOTO GALLERY: see the full David Dixon fall/winter 2011 collection
In what was likely the longest show this week, we saw some highs in David Dixon ’s prints and a low in his metallic skirt. At...
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The Shopping Channel kicks off its Canadian Designer Week
The Shopping Channel has announced its seasonal Canadian Designer Week (March 21–25) to inspire the haves and have-nots to...
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Megan Follows dressed by David Dixon? See it at the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s feel-good fashion show
Fashion month spawns a series of spectacles, but nothing is as ego-free as the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s “Heart Truth“...
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Sales roundup: Canadian designer sample sale, Photorama, Aquilano.Rimondi trunk show
FASHION AND BEAUTY ASHLEY ROWE The young Toronto designer is holding a trunk show this Saturday with pieces from her fall...
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George Smitherman, Rick Mercer and other Canadian gays appear in It Gets Better video series
Tim Gunn did one . Hillary Clinton did one . Hell, Barack Obama did one . Seems as though making an It Gets Better video has...
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The Weekender: International Festival of Authors, Toronto Zombie Walk and six other events on our to-do list
1. POMEGRANATE FILM FESTIVAL This celebration of Armenian cinema is now in its fifth year, featuring an array of genres, from...
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Our 10 favourite looks from Toronto fashion week
Lucian Matis' jaw-dropping wool coat and David Dixon' s fluttery evening dress are two of the looks we liked most at fashion...
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Twelve ways fur was used on the runway at fashion week
Have a problem with fur? Many Canadian designers don't. Fur was seen in many of the shows during Toronto fashion week, which ended...
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David Dixon’s show gets standing ovation from Suzanne Rogers
The buzz around the Allstream Centre on Thursday was that over 1,600 people had RSVP'd for David Dixon' s two back-to-back...
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Fashion types give Haiti the double kiss
Despite a semi-controversial new study that found luxury consumers to be more selfish than frugal shoppers, fashion’s elite have...
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Jeanne Beker can’t afford to shop at the Bay’s luxury department
Jeanne Beker is almost the Canadian answer to Anna Wintour : she's one of the most recognizable faces in our fashion industry, is...
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Sales roundup: Canadian designer sample sale, American Apparel rummage sale, One of a Kind Show
FASHION AND BEAUTY AMERICAN APPAREL Nothing is over $50 at this weekend rummage sale, where the clothes are up to 85 per cent...
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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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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
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“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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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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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