Spring Wet Weather Gear

When the weather’s gone grey and everyone else looks cold, use your spot-on sense of style to look and feel cool. Here, three stylin’ wet-weather gear suggestions. First Coat Decide if you’re going cowboy or corporate. If it’s the former, check out J. Crew’s Barbour Sylkoil Bedale jacket ($379). Imported … Read More

2012 World Master Card Fashion Week

The biggest annual event in Canadian fashion, Toronto’s World Master Card Fashion Week wrapped last Friday. This pre-spring event provides an early look at the top trends for fall/winter, more than six months away, and spotlights Canada’s most talented menswear designers. Here, three coming trends you need to know about. … Read More

Comfort Food in Vancouver

Three years ago, Vancouver’s restaurant scene was riding high on a wave of Olympic optimism. Internationally acclaimed chefs like Daniel Boloud and Jean-Georges Vorichten opened Vancouver satellites, while local cuisiniers indulged their patrons’ ever-more refined palates and ever-deeper pockets. But when Wall Street collapsed and the Winter Games went a … Read More

St. Patrick’s Day Style Suggestions

When it comes to greening up one’s look on St. Patrick’s Day, any plebeian can hit the dollar store for a clover-coloured fright wig or a glitter-bombed plastic leprechaun hat. But you’re the type of St. Paddy’s partier who’ll pass on the food-coloured pitchers of Canadian in favour of a … Read More

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