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I want – I got A Week in Review – Roots x Douglas Coupland, Celine, Sitamaa Spa and Svedka plus this week’s sales and events

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A weekly roundup of stories from I want – I got. Featured Posts Stuart Weitzman coming to The Eaton Centre in August – Shoe lovers, a new place for your to feed your habit. Douglas Coupland x Roots Launches at Bloor Street – I get an up close view of the Roots x Douglas Coupland collaboration. Perfect a film by Ruth Hogben featuring Celine Fall Winter 2010 – 2011 – Everyone needs some Celine porn in their lives. The Making Of Chanel Fall 2010 – 2011 Haute Couture Lion – Behind the scenes look at the creation of the huge Lion at the Chanel show. I review the Sitamaa Spa and their Kyoshi Detox Wrap. It’s fabulous. – geekiviews: Sitamaa Spa Svedka Vodka Launches in Toronto – Someone explain the fembot to me. This is from the week before but my I want – I got’s Bisha Adventure in New York posts are pretty killer. Look out for these new sales EWANIKA End of Season Sale Summer 2010 – On now Karamea & Desparately Different …

geekiviews: Sitamaa Spa

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I had an amazing treatment at the Sitamaa Spa in Yorkville. It funny how it took a New York based twitter friend, @michellejoni to let me know about it. Michelle works at SpaWeekDaily.com and contacted me with a Spa review opportunity. I love the spa so I said yes. I was amazed she was working with people in Toronto. The owner is 15 year industry veteran, Vaidehie Mistry.  She is a regular guest on the Steven and Chris show.  She’s also active on the speaking circuit holding lectures and seminars on skin care and beauty treatments. The Sitamaa Spa aims to be a knowledge centre for its clients. The environment is stark white which is deliberate. The client is to focus inward while at the Spa therefore the environment has minimal distractions. Vaidehie believes it’s time to refocus on the self. The Spa is there to make it easy for that serenity and concentration to happen. I had the Kyoshi Detox Wrap ($95). You are given disposable underwear to wear and the treatment takes place …

Svedka Vodka Launch

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So Svedka launched in Canada. There was a party held at Parts & Labour. It was there I learned of Svedka’s mascot. It is one of the most bizarre product mascots I’ve seen, a sexy fembot. SVEDKA‟s futuristic branding is the platform on which SVEDKA_Grl, the world‟s first fun & flirtatious spokesbot, was born. She was designed in 2005 by Stan Winston, the mastermind and visual effects supervisor behind The Terminator and Jurassic Park. As fembots go, the Svedka _Grl looks good. I’m just having a hard time trying to reconcile how this sells vodka. The New York Times wrote a story that talks about the marketing plan. Early this year, SVEDKA debuted its first television commercial in the US. The “Soul Train meets the year 2033” future/retro themed commercial was directed by Francis Lawrence (whose credits include Lady Gaga‟s “Bad Romance” video, Britney Spears‟ “Circus,” Justin Timberlake‟s “Rock Your Body” and Gwen Stefani‟s “What You Waiting For”) and features a cover of the Jackson 5 classic song “Dancing Machine.” The bizarre commercial is burned …

From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit at The Royal Ontario Museum, July 23 – August 13, 2010

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The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) joins in the excitement of the Scotiabank Caribana Festival and presents From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit, July 23 to August 13, 2010, Canada’s largest ever single juried display of works of art by African Canadian artists. Curated by renowned African Canadian artist and activist, Joan Butterfield, the exhibition is produced by the Association of African Canadian Artists, in conjunction with Scotiabank Caribana and the ROM. From the Soul will be on display in the Museum’s Bronfman Hall, Level 2 during the citywide festival, which takes place from July 15 to August 15, 2010. More than 160 works on canvas, several Caribana parade costumes, three dimensional bronze sculptures and award-winning ceramic pieces by 49 artists will be on display. Ms. Butterfield said, “This collection of works will arouse the conscious, still the mind and soothe the soul. Our goal is to attract a new and expanded audience to this exhibition with the hope of inspiring others with the message of courage, love and respect prevalent throughout the displays. Art is …

Plastik Wrap Presents Stuntkid aka Jason Levesque

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PLASTIK WRAP â„¢ Presents Stuntkid » aka Jason Levesque Jason’s work regularly depicts “pin up” style girls with elements inspired by both the beautiful and ugly parts of the natural world. “Aquatic life” is a collection of underwater, deep sea inspired illustrations with fashionable flare. Please join us for the opening reception on August 5th. Plastik Wrap boutique, 2235 Dundas st. West From 7.00 pm till 11.00 pm

Perfect a film by Ruth Hogben featuring Celine Fall Winter 2010 – 2011

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Perfect is a film by Ruth Hogben for Showstudio. It features clothing from the Celine Fall Winter 2010 – 2011 collection. It’s basically Celine porn, you need to watch it on the Showstudio website. Reduce, refine, define. Phoebe Philo’s A/W 2010 Celine collection is a Minimalist mantra for modern dressing. Next season, perfect isn’t a noun, it’s a verb.(source) image: showstudio.com

Versace Menswear Spring Summer 2011

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I received an email with some photos of the Versace Menswear Fall Winter 2010 – 2011 show from a person at enternewmedia.com. I guess Versace has contracted them for their social media campaign. I skimmed through the photos but didn’t really pay much attention. It’s almost a month later and I was looking through some images and rediscovered the Versace collection. I’m really liking the ’80 rockabilly style Donatella Versace was channeling this season. I found a video of the collection, it’s not the best quality but it has the original soundtrack (which is kick ass). There are a couple men’s styles that I gravitate to. Rockabilly is one. It all starts with the pompadour, what a great hairstyle. Hello, creepers, so kick ass. I also love the slim, lean silhouette. I love a straight up suit on a man. The only requirement is that is fits well. It could be a Zoot Suit or a boxy Armani gangster suit. It’s one of the reasons why I love working in the financial district. Even though …

Douglas Coupland x Roots Launches at Bloor Street

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The Douglas Coupland x Roots collaboration is now on sale at the Bloor Street Store. The ROOTS X DOUGLAS COUPLAND collection includes apparel for women/men/children, accessories, leather goods, design items, furniture, limited editions, original art and a series of pop-up stores. This is the first time Douglas Coupland has designed fashion wearables. He is best known as the internationally best-selling author of “Generation X”, “JPod” and “Generation A”.