I was lucky enough to catch the imitable high priestess of Canadian fashion, Fashion Television host Jeanne Beker, for an exclusive one-on-one chat about Toronto Fashion Week spring/summer 2010, Canadian designers and the future of fashion.
Friday arrived far too soon but featured some wonderfully creative creations and the Dare to Wear Love show wrapped up the week with a blowout show that proved fashion and philanthropy are just as beautiful, glamorous and meaningful as ever.
Toronto's Liberty Village is the new home to fashion week and it was packed to the rafters with fashionphiles biting at the bit to dive right into the week's fashionable fabulosity.
New York and Paris fashion weeks may be over but Canadian fashionphiles are teeming with excitement for Toronto Fashion Week, which kicks off this Monday.
When I was looking at a lot of the models from Fashion Week, I thought the same thing: She looks like girls I met in treatment. She needs to be hospitalized right now. In an inpatient facility. For months.
During my first runway show, I had a serious disadvantage. Besides being hopelessly clumsy and half-blind without my glasses, I also -- gasp! -- didn't like clothes.
Ever thought you'd witness the day when computer nerds morphed into style aficionados? Well Hewlett Packard has ushered it in!
I got to talk to Anna Fontaine, director of Coco Before Chanel, about Chanel's impact on fashion in specific and modern women in general
Going to the fashion shows season after season resembles nothing more than going to your first high school dance...so much you desire, yet so little you can actually have.
Fashion's Night Out was a huge, massive, amazing success -- I couldn't have asked for a better experience.
The designers who pushed us into the future missed it collectively, so horribly, that once or twice I groaned and felt like running away during the middle of a show.
After observing Anna Wintour last week, I think I've discerned Anna's Seven Deadly Tells, those subtle (and not-so-subtle) changes in her demeanor that signal what's really on her mind.
A growing number of eco-designers are trying to reduce their carbon footprint, by using production processes that are gentler on the environment and all natural materials, such as hemp and cotton.
That the charity of New York's best events is secondary, even insignificant, in contrast to the stylishness of those in attendance, is a 'dirty secret' that's routinely denied.
I'm a native New Yorker. I love nothing more than seeing Manhattan dressed up and ready to party. It doesn't hurt when Charlize Theron and Lindsay Lohan show up to party with you.
The debut collection of Laura Smalls would suit the First Lady -- or any lady for that matter.
For the most part the Fortune 500 Women's Conference was a well-dressed, well-heeled crowd. Well, except for the girls from Google, in their Boyfriend Jeans and oversized shirts.
What do Fashion Week trends say about us? We seem to want the excess and exuberance of the 80's, with a decadent dollop of sadomasochism on the side. Draw your own conclusions.
We're at the height of New York Fashion Week now, so let's not forget or ignore the people who come with the fashion industry.
Good news for the bikers out there: The fashion industry has decided bike gear is totally hip.
Women have replaced the prison of the kitchen with the prison of an unachievable body shape. The more powerful a woman is, the more likely she is to be bulimic.
