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HOMETOWN HEROES

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HOMETOWN HEROES Friday, May 2, 2008 So my brother is a DJ and is in a band called HERO. Since I’m a loving sister and I want them to do well, I thought I would use this platform for a shameless plug of his gig on Friday. Check out this making of a video video on Facebook, My brother is DJ Taktiks. The Academy loves their hometown Canadian talent, and we’d like you to show your love as well. Toronto hip hop fans have continued to show love to the out-of-town A-list, however a significant portion of those who love hip hop in the TDot, do not show the same support to the amazing local talent we have at home. There’s many who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk as far as supporting their own, and this situation needs to change. Having confidence and pride in our local hip hop, will translate to their success internationally. A revival and re-birth of Toronto and Canadian hip hop is a necessity, and that begins with …

Buy Design for Windfall 2008

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Buy Design for Windfall 2008 On Saturday, April 26 2008 Toronto’s Distillery Historic District will play host to the 5th annual BUY DESIGN charity gala: Buy Design 54. Supporting Windfall Clothing Service, Canada’s only NEW clothing bank, party-goers will strut their stuff in Halston lamé or polyester pant suits to the tunes of the 70’s.

Mass Exodus 2008

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Mass Exodus 2008 I attended my first Mass Exodus show. For those of you that don’t know, Mass Exodus is Ryerson’s fashion show for graduating students. I attended the press and industry show, so we saw the top 20 collections of the graduating class. It was interesting to watch Mass Exodus because it’s raw. These kids haven’t been broken down by the industry or have had there creativity stifled – well maybe the teachers helped there, but I can’t say for sure. They are excited about fashion and that is wonderful. The production value of the show was excellent. The theater department was involved and there was a large set, smoke machines, lights and video. It was well organized and executed. I heard about the excessive number of swimwear and lingerie collections last year but this year there was only one and it was pretty good. I thought the bottom could have used some more fabric though. Not many collections grabbed me to be honest. Some kids were drinking way too much of the 80s …

More from [FAT] 2008

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I attended [FAT] aka Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Festival this past week. You can read about it on blogTO. I am a little disappointed that I didn’t get to see the fashions on Friday. I had photographer friends the whole time and here are some photos from the event by Daryl Banks.

Buy Design for Windfall

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I’m in the Fashion Magazine April 2008 issue with some peeps from the Toronto fashion scene. The ad is for the Buy Design for Windfall fundraiser. I had no idea that we would end up in a full page spread in Fashion Magazine, it’s kinda neat. Unfortunately the left hand side got a bit cutoff because of the magazine seam. EDIT: I’ve replaced the image with one that isn’t cut off. Click the image to see a larger version

Style femmes at Holt Renfrew

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I attended the Dean Davidson Spring 2008 preview at Holt Renfrew yesterday. Here are some style shots of the attendees. Look for my feature on the preview on blogTO.com complete with better product shots. Mine suck. Love, love, love the blue tights. This DVP dress is fantastic, it comes in silver also. Perfect draping without making the dress hippy. Mary from Holt’s is my fashion hero. She has such an amazing sense of style. She also has the most kick ass jewelry I’ve seen.

Travelling exhibition pavilion for Chanel is coming soon.

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Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (Who did the fun LV bag) has created a travelling exhibition pavilion for Chanel It kicks off in Hong Kong in a month and features 20 contemporary artists works based around Chanel’s back catalogue of iconic handbags. The Artists are: Yoko Ono David Levinthal Stephen Shore Michael Lin Blue Noses Leandro Erlich Sylvie Fleury Tabaimo Sophie Calle Wim Delvoye Lee Bul Soju Tao Loris Cecchini Subodh Gupta Yang Fudong Fabrice Hyber Pierre & Gilles Y.Z. Kami Nobuyoshi Araki The exhibition will travel to Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, London, Moscow and Paris Check it out at Wallpaper Mag. See the Chanel Mobile Art website. image: wallpaper.com

Dancing at the Adelaide Club

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So, I just joined a new gym. It was a rather traumatizing experience. My old gym, The Wellington, was my hangout for about 5 years. I knew the staff and many of the squash players there. Extreme Fitness took over after The Sports Clubs of Canada went tits up. At first, I figured they would keep the squash program considering how many people were at the gym for squash. I was wrong, they are dumping the squash program to add internet lounges and stupid yoga studios. I was really pissed off, so I left for the Adelaide Club. The Adelaide Club is the type of club the Wellington only dreams of being (Yes, I’m really bitter). It’s much cleaner with better facilities and they have squash courts that won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. The owner is a big squash fan and player. The club actually had about 12 courts back in the day. To the Wellington’s credit, they did have the some great squash courts. So good that I ignored the rest of the …

Okay Steve, I take everything mean I ever thought of you back.

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I attended the Motorola RAZR 2 Party last week at Kool Haus. I have to thank Ian from Hill & Knowlton for the invite. I brought Danielle from Final Fashion with me. The venue was draped with white cloth and had weird ethereal lighting. We drank, ate and chatted with the Motorola models. The crowd was a little strange at first, mostly suits and their significant others. The atmosphere changed once our friends started to slowly stream in. The music was great from the start and DJ Steve Aoki was coming up. I admit that prior to him hitting the decks I haven’t had anything nice to say about him; another L.A. hipster blah, blah. However, I had a change of heart after he begun. He played great music, seemed unpretentious and professional. No, I didn’t talk to him, just observations. Anyone that can make me dance my ass off with great friends around is amazing in my book.

Fritz Helder & the Phantoms – nuff said

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Fritz Helder & the Phantoms performed at their CD release party last night and rocked the Great Hall with a flawless, awe inspiring performance. These guys are going to be big. If you weren’t there last night, you ain’t vogue baby. In my humble opinion this is the only relevant band in fashion right now, period. I spotted a lot of fashion people taking part: my designer crush that I never talk to Jeremy Laing, Krane designer Ken Chow, one half of Juma and I want – I got fan Jamil, fashion hero Sonja Andic of TSF, industry insider Gail McInnes, the very sweet Shinan Govani of the National Post, stylist and birthday girl Jessica Tjeng and Project Runway Canada alum Michael Hatley. I’m sure there were others too, I either didn’t know who you were or I didn’t see you. After the show was the after party at the Social where we were treated to another show Village People style. It was awesome. I want a big feather headdress now! Their CD is out …

Swayzak @ The Mod Club

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Swayzak played to a small but appreciative audience at the Mod Club on November 6, 2007. It was really cool to talk to them after the set. I thanked them for the funky beats that had me dancing like a fool.

Grow a Mo for Movember guys.

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This is for all you guys out there. It’sMovember – Grow a Mo! It’s not too late, even though my post about it is. It’s easy. 1. Register here. 2. Shave your face and think of a mustache you want 3. Don’t shave for the whole month of november. Cultivate for the perfect mo 4. Raise cash for the prostate cancer research 5. Come to the Gala Party and compete to be the Man of Movember

My Circa Nightclub experience in GLOSS: The Fashion Magazine

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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.

It’s Fashion Week folks

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Hi everyone. Posting will be light her this week as it’s L’Oreal Fashion Week in Toronto. I’ll be covering the events for blogTO this week, but I’ll definately try to give I want – I got readers a piece of the action. Today’s agenda included the Holt Renfrew Media Cocktail and Project Runway Canada. I’m hoping to score an interview with Iman.

5th Annual Jesse’s Scissors-in-Motion hair cut-a-thon

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On Sunday, October 21, 2007, the 5th Annual Jesse’s Scissors-in-Motion hair cut-a-thon will be held at Sick Kids Hospital & a few select Toronto Salons. To celebrate, the Canadian Guild of Hair Design Professionals is gathering all of its participating stylists on site in the hospital’s Atrium for a stylish day and community in action. The funds raised will bring music therapy to terminally ill children in palliative care through Sick Kids Palliative Care Music Therapy program. PHONE LINES OPEN OCTOBER 1st, 2007! Supporters (male and female of ALL ages) are asked to pre-book and pre-pay $30.00 by calling our hotline 1-800-254-7719 or 416-201-5208 (in Toronto). Donations also accepted through the hotline. Please note: The Sick Kids Salon location also welcomes walk-ins. Palliative Care helps to provide critically ill children with optimal comfort and quality of life. Sadly, this may include preparing for a compassionate death. Music Therapy for the palliative care of sick children uses a variety of ways to help meet emotional, social, physical and spiritual needs of children receiving palliative care. Music …

The view from here is nice

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Taken from the 18th floor of the Hyatt. This was the best part of the Pure Divine Spa Party. I was too late to get reservations for a free spa service at Stilllwater. They had a waitlist but you had to hang out in the lobby waiting for someone to call your name in the event that there is a cancellation. The party was on the 18th floor, pure BS. Initially, they said they would call people on the waitlist about cancellations. I’m not desperate enough to stand around in the lobby like a fool, hoping there is a cancellation. If I want to experience Stillwater, I’ll just pay for it. I left due to lack of free alcohol and the party options of pictures and henna tattoos. I did get a gift bag with products from Gillette including this new body soap and scrub they are selling. In addition to the gift bag, I received about 30 samples of the Pure Divine Gentle Exfoliating Body Wash that I managed to give all away at …

Dragonette

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I saw this band called Dragonette play at The Social a couple weekends ago. They were amazing. Check out the video for I get around. They are so incredible live and studio recordings don’t do them justice. Toronto is such a small town at times. The 6 degrees of separation is very disturbing at times. Through friends of friends I met Jamie. In conversation with Jamie, I discovered that his girlfriend Jen is from Balmshell who I saw at the Crave Party. I covered that party at blogTO and an got here. I thought I would plug his new venture Be a Good Buzz, where you can submit and promote the things that make you feel people need to know about. Here are some photos from the night after the jump