Holt’s Opens LG Fashion Week with Canadian Designer Showcase

Luxury department store Holt Renfrew launched the Fall/Winter 2012 collections with a show called “Can’t Live without Canadian Fashion” featuring well-known names such as Pink Tartan (who will be showing tomorrow), Lida Baday and Greta Constantine.  Not all of the designers in the Holt Renfrew show are showing this week (in fact, Pink Tartan is the only […]

Highlights from Day 1 of LGFW

The craziness has begun.  LG Fashion Week shows began tonight Heritage Court, starting with a show hosted by Holt Renfrew, held in the main runway area.   Shows continue tomorrow, with many of the big names showing, including Pink Tartan and Joe Fresh.  LG Fashion Week runs until Friday, April 1. Some highlights of the night:

Manis, Hors d’Oeuvres and Relationship Talk

Yesterday, Lux Spa in Toronto’s Yorkville district hosted a wonderful post-work event, featuring relationships author, Andrea Syrtash, who was in town to promote her book, He’s Just Not Your Type (and that’s a Good Thing).  The evening, which featured some book signing as well as mini manicures and appetizers, was full of chit-chat not among […]

Make-Up Artist Profile: Farah Balolia

Toronto-based make-up artist, Farah Balolia (left) has a vast portfolio, ranging from television and editorial to bridal make-up.  A graduate of SOMA (School of Make-Up Art), she was encouraged to go into make-up artistry by her mother.  Farah was doing her mother’s make-up one day and commented on how she’d like to do this “in real life.”  After […]

Pretty, Soft Garden Parties, Eco-Friendliness, Explore the World and Basic Black

  Sarah Stevenson The studio was transformed into a garden for the first show of the day.  Sarah Stevenson’s namesake line was presented with light French music playing in the background and with models in a collection that is full of lady-like floral dresses (mostly in creams, though there was also one which was dominated by a green) and […]