• Flare is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Blanks to editor-at-large of Flare Magazine
  TORONTO, Jan. 30 /CNW/ - Lisa Tant, editor-in-chief of Flare is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Blanks to editor-at-large of Flare Magazine. Since 1985 Tim has been covering the world of fashion and is a sought after trend expert, often quoted
  (tags: fashion+news tim+blanks flare+magazine canada)
• Make Way for Mouret
  (LONDON) Roland Mouret is headed back onto the catwalk. According to the buzz in London, the British designer, who in October 2005 parted ways with his backers, Sharai and Andre Meyers of Roland Mouret Design Ltd., due to creative differences, today revea
  (tags: fashion+news designer roland+mouret couture fall2007)
• André Calls It on the Carpet
  Event curator André Leon Talley (LOS ANGELES) For once, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is getting Oscar fashion right. How many ill-prepared supermodels, television talking heads, and even sportscasters have described fashion on the netw
  (tags: fashion+news andre+leon+talley oscars)
• Advertising Age - What’s Next, Pup Tents in Bryant Park?
  Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Juicy Jump Into $1 Billion Doggy-Couture Market
  (tags: fashion+news pets designer)
• Fat toes? Did you know you can now get toe liposuction?
  I must confess that I am not at the cutting edge of international beauty trends. So I was amazed to read, in a story in the NY Times about changes in Brazilian women’s views on body image, that liposuction on the toes was all the rage in that country th
  (tags: beauty news brazil toe liposuction)
• Victoria Beckham’s shoe deal - Showbiz News - Life Style Extra
  LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Victoria Beckham has signed a £5 million deal to design her own range of bags and shoes.
  (tags: fashion+news victoria-beckham shoes handbags)
• Rachel Zoe To Spill Her Guts - Gawker
  In a book! What did you think we meant? We hear that Rachel “raisin face” Zoe, stylist and former stylist to a slim cadre of starlets, has sold a collection of her best tips to (we think) Harper.
  (tags: fashion+news rachel+zoe book)
• H&M - Press - NEW H&M COLLECTION FEATURES ORGANIC COTTON
  This spring collection from H&M introduces a desirable fashion range for women, teens, children and babies. The clothing line, featuring organically grown cotton, will be available in selected stores in all H&M markets from March 2007.
  (tags: H&M organic cotton clothing Spring2007 fashion+news)

The site is messed up for anyone using IE right now. I don’t often check IE because I use Firefox and I forget about the rest of the world. I’m trying to track down the problem and I hope to get it fixed soon.
You really should be using Firefox though. LOL.

UPDATE: I’ve fixed the problem. Thanks goes out to Scott Wallick, the creator of the plaintxtblog theme I’m using. He helped me to track down the issue. Scott Rocks. w00t!!!!

Hi

This is just to let you all know to look for me in Now Magazine this Thursday. Andrew Sardone who writes fashion for Now is featuring 5 Toronto fashion bloggers and I was lucky enough to be one of them. It’s pretty exciting and I can’t wait to see how the pictures turn out. Oh yes friends, there was a real photoshoot and everything. I’m wearing clothing from Juma’s new Movement line.

Remember what I said about this look

Love this, perfect.

I take back what I said about the stylist intervention. It happened here and it’s still all wrong.

WRONG, Sienna, so very wrong.

UPDATE: Hi BuzzFeed Readers, thanks for coming by. Please comment on the comparison if you feel like

The Essential Toolbag by S. Stein

I fell in love with this bag which takes on the tool belt and makes it fabulous, such kitsch. I love all the pockets. They are always more of a pain in the ass than anything. I spend so much time looking for my keys or lip balm because of all the pockets. I still love them though, totally makes no sense. The bag is made of industrial strength canvas and has suede pockets.

Inspired by the high functionality and natural materials of classic carpenter bags and toolbelts; reinterpreted for the modern industrious woman.

Not sold in stores here but available online.

via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

images: ssteindesign.com

The upgrade hasn’t gone as smoothly as I would have liked. You will find the comments are broken. I also have to fix some things with plugins. Sigh. My friends list is pooched for now too. It will be back once I fix the widgets issue.

Please email me if you see any issues.

UPDATE: All functionality should be working correctly now. What a pain in the ass.

Please be patient as I am upgrading to Wordpress 2.1

Hopefully this goes smoothly.

UPDATE: Calling this off for now. It needs more planning.

UPDATE UPDATE: I was wrong. Site is now Wordpress 2.1. I’m fixing my themes now.

• Wal-Mart not participating in February New York Fashion Week | Top Business News | Reuters.com
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile , Research), the world’s largest retailer, has decided not to participate in New York’s upcoming Fashion Week. “We just elected not to show our collections at that venue,” said Wal-Mart spok
  (tags: fashion+shows new+york walmart FW2007)
• Retailers develop tracking systems to prevent duplicate-dress disasters
  With the number of charity balls on the rise — there will be more than 100 fund-raising events in Palm Beach, Fla., alone this winter-spring season — retailers and designers are creating complex new customer-tracking systems to avoid an age-old problem:
  (tags: fashion+news technology)
• The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia’s leading newspaper.
  STAYING ahead of trends is overwhelming enough for those with sight, but for the vision-impaired it can be a minefield. Enter “Fashionable Eye For The Blind Guy . . . And Gal”, an online community for the young and vision-impaired.
  (tags: fashion+news vision-impaired online community)
• Spain sizes up women to make fashion dummies true to form - World - Times Online
  Thousands of Spanish women are to be invited to undergo body scans so that shop window dummies are a better reflection of the female form. Some 8,500 women between the ages of 12 and 70, drawn randomly from the electoral roll, will receive an invitation f
  (tags: fashion+news standardize+sizing spain)
• Fashion chiefs plan confab on too-skinny models
  PARIS - Fashion bosses from Paris, Milan, New York and London have agreed to take part in a debate on how to address eating disorders after some countries took measures to ban ultra-skinny models from their catwalks, according to French fashion’s govern
  (tags: fashion+news models)
• Editorial: H&M’s fashion travesty - BR Bulletin - Advertising, Marketing, Media and PR news by Email - Brand Republic
  As I write this column there are more than 700 items from the Stella McCartney-designed Hennes & Mauritz collection for sale on eBay. These come to the auction site courtesy of the shoppers who blitzed the fashion retailer’s stores on the day of the colle
  (tags: fashion+news H&M)

• A shoe blast from the past | Columnists | Zena Olijnyk | Canadian Business Online
  There’s a place on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street where both edgy twenty-somethings and comfortable Boomers will likely be bumping into each other — the new adidas Originals store that opened Dec. 14.
  (tags: fashion+news toronto adidas)
• Meet Joe Fresh | innovation | Innovation | Canadian Business Online
  Inside the brightly lit showroom of his Toronto office, fashion designer Joseph Mimran is explaining what he loves about items in his Joe Fresh Style clothing line.
  (tags: joe+fresh fashion+news toronto joseph+mimran)
• Calvin Klein, Inc. Announces Licensing Arrangement with Windsong Sport LLC for Golf Sportswear Line - MarketWatch
  NEW YORK, Jan 25, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Calvin Klein, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH :
  Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
  News , chart, profile, more
  Last: 53.42-0.96-1.77%
  8:14pm 01/25/2007
  Delayed quote dat
  (tags: fashion+news calvin+klein golf windsong+sport)
• Rockport to Launch Collection with adidas TORSION(R) System Technology
  CANTON, Mass., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Building on its storied heritage
  and commitment to innovation and design, The Rockport Company will
  introduce, worldwide in fall 2007, an evolutionary footwear collection
  featuring adidas TORSION(R) System techno
  (tags: fashion+news adidas rockport shoes footwear)
• The World’s Best Sales - Forbes.com
  Forget impulse buying. When it comes to the sport of shopping, the name of the game is sales. And when you’re talking high-end luxury goods, not just any sale will do.
  (tags: fashion+news sales)

Sometimes readers ask me questions. If they are of value to all my readers I post them online. If you have a question, please feel free to submit it using the contact form. I’ll definitely do my best to answer it.

Dai S wrote:
Hi geekigirl,
I like checking out your blog but it does give me a certain sense of envy. You see, I live in Winnipeg, where there a few fun boutiques and big box and mall stores rule.
My question for you is regarding Canadian online shoe stores. While there are plenty of ones in the States, I don’t like considering the duty and exchange. I am aware of softmoc.ca here shipping in Canada but would love to know if you have come across any others.
Thanks!
Dai

Online shopping in Canada isn’t very good most of the time. Things are slowly changing though as one of the big players in Canadian shoes is going online, Browns. They aren’t quite live yet, but if you sign up for the announcement you will get a coupon for $25 bucks.

There are others that offer online service:

Gravity Pope - They have retail outlets in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. They do online sales but their backoffice is not hooked up to the site. It’s a bit of a manual process but they will take your order and deliver your shoes.

Aldo Shoes - You probably can got the mall and see Aldo, but they deliver too.

John Fluevog

Sportmart for you athletic shoes.

Adidas - More sporting needs although they do have cute casual shoes too.

Transit|Spring Shoes

Naturalizer ships shoes via BorderFree, which calculates the duties and taxes at point of purchase.
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I thought I want - I got had a great boxing day; about 800 people visited the site that day looking for shopping bargains. I knew that the Lululemon warehouse sale would bring people here, but I had no idea how many. Thursday saw about 1100 visitors. My searches were all for lululemon, it has been insane over the last few days. I’ve finally broken the 1000 visitor mark, YAY!. Thanks to all the people who posted comments about their Lululemon experience.

• The Big Question: What is the point of fashion shows, and how do they influence the high street?
  Why are we asking this question now? The international collections are currently in full throttle. This week, the haute couture season hit Paris, showcasing the world’s most expensive and exclusive garments, all hand-stitched, beaded and embroidered by th
  (tags: fashion+news Spring2007)
• London fashion week refuses to ban ultra-thin models | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
  The British fashion industry is ready to defy the government by refusing to rule out the controversial use of ultra-thin models on the catwalk. Organisers of London Fashion Week say they will not dictate to influential international designers about the mo
  (tags: fashion+news london fashion+week models)
• For some French designers, business is better the American way - Style - International Herald Tribune
  NEW YORK Paris is heralded as the world’s fashion capital, but not all French designers stay in the City of Light. Catherine Malandrino; Gilles Mendel of J. Mendel, a ready-to-wear designer and fifth-generation furrier; and Jerome Dahan, founder and desig
  (tags: fashion+news france designer)
• Big 4 fashion weeks get new company - tourism, fashion, India, Turkey, Iceland, Malaysia, Australia, Russia, Colombia, South Africa, Iran, New Zealand, Japan, China - Style - International Herald Tribune
  LONDON Style hounds sniffing out new trends are sure to be doing a lot of traveling this year - and not just to the traditional four fashion capitals of Paris, London, Milan and New York.
  (tags: fashion+news fashion+shows)

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