Wallpaper magazine has a great little article on the amazing venues used for the Spring 2008 collections.

Lanvin

Prada

images: wallpaper.com

Spring 2008 dresses from Jeremy Laing

I talked about my Chanel skirt in my Shopping Secrets post. I scored some other items I scored on that trip like this Jean Paul Gautier sweater

This pic gives you better look at the Chanel skirt.

image: Rachel from TorontoStreetFashion.com

• The Associated Press: Tom Ford Aims to Block N.M. Oil Drilling
  SANTA FE (AP) — Fashion designer Tom Ford has bought mineral rights beneath his Galisteo ranch southeast of Santa Fe in an attempt to protect his land from possible oil exploration in the region. Ford paid the state Land Office about $84,000 earlier thi
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• Target to feature model-less fashion show - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
  Target Corp. plans to debut its fall and winter fashions without using real models or even clothing, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Instead, the paper reported that Minneapolis-based Target (NYSE: TGT) will stage a fashion show using holograms p
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Umbra Factory Sale 2007

It’s back, the Umbra sale. It’s pretty nuts, check out my experience there last year. Sunday afternoon is the best time to go, things were dirt cheap.

I haven’t been blogging the show. I have been watching. I even attended the Project Runway Canada show at fashion week but I’m sworn to secrecy.

I’m enjoying the show overall but I have to agree with Nathalie Atkinson about the shows faults. I don’t really understand the Winners connection and yes, Iman’s delivery is awkward.

However, Episode three is where I thought we would finally say goodbye to Megan. She’s scraped by the last two challenges. Alas, that didn’t happen, which just cements the whole “reality tv” aspect of the show. She makes for good television.

I love Stephen Wong and after seeing him running around during fashion week I love him more. It was a little surreal seeing the contestants pretty much everywhere I went last week.

Houndstooth Sweater Dress from Joe Fresh

I’ve been looking for a sweater dress since the beginning of the season. I only have a tank sweater dress and nothing with sleeves. I was passing by the Steeles and Keele Supercentre and stopped in to find one at Joe Fresh. It’s actually 70% lambswool which totally surprised me. It’s cute though, we’ll see how long it takes to get destroyed though.

I picked up a striped sweater dress from H&M too. I’m surprised at how much I like it.

Both were under 30 dollars.

The collection is up at H&M now. There is an exceptional amount of cheetah prints. I think it’s awful, but I’m sure people will want to buy it. I do predict more of this stuff lying around than the M by Madonna collection.

Here is a video from H&M that shows some of the clothes, it’s pretty cheezy be warned.

It’s hits the stores on November 8, 2007.

Am I the only one who thinks these designer collaboration are so done now?

video: hm.com

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• Brooks Brothers Tries Hip Line: Will It Suit? - WSJ.com
  Venerable Retailer Links Up With Cutting-Edge Designer, Aiming to Draw New Crowd
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I wrote an article on Circa for Gloss Magazine. Check it out.

The club king of New York brings Circa to Toronto

It’s opening night of Circa Nightclub, shall we take a peek?

It’s Thursday night, and I’m at the opening of Peter Gatien’s Circa Nightclub. New York’s club king is hoping to enchant Toronto and the world with four floors of art, technology, cinema and pop culture mishmash. The line snakes around the building but, with VIP access, there is no waiting.

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  Robin Kay’s insistence that Canada is new to fashion seems old
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• A Reporter’s Notebook
  From dreamy David Dixon to savvy Ula Zukowska, with a gripe or two thrown in for good measure
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