March 2016 Fashion consumers take note: Our planet is in environmental peril and our obsession with clothing isn’t helping this enormous carbon footprint we’re leaving. Rebecca Burgess is an educator, writer, and natural dye farmer from Northern California who’s trying to make us re-think our wardrobes in myriad ways. First of all, because today’s textile industry is one of the …
Garance Dore
November 2015 The blogosphere has bred its own small galaxy of innate fashion stars, but none shine as brightly as 40-year-old Garance Dore. Growing up in Corsica, her passion for style took her to Paris, where she worked as both an illustrator and photographer before launching her now famous ‘streetstyle’ blog ‘garancedore.com’ in 2006. Revered for her personal candor and …
Betty Halbreich
Women speak of retail therapy as a way of lifting themselves out of the doldrums. But the high that shopping provides is often short-lived – unless you’re 86-year-old Betty Halbreich. The legendary personal shopper, who is known for her stellar if unsentimental service at Bergdorf Goodman, New York’s famed luxury department store, has worked in retail for 38 years and …
Coco Rocha
The term “poser” has gotten a bad rap. According to most dictionaries, it has negative connotations and refers to a person who either pretends to be something he or she isn’t or acts in an affected manner in order to impress others. But Toronto-born, Richmond, B.C.-raised model Coco Rocha would likely take offence to those definitions. Her new book, Study …
Sandra Bernhard Interview
Brash, irreverent, oddly beautiful, and outrageously hilarious, Sandra Bernhard has been tickling funny bones for decades with her astute insights and unbridled chutzpah. The Flint, Michigan native moved to LA at the age of 19, and went from filing nails at a swish salon to becoming a regular at the Comedy Store. Her first big break came in the early …
Nora Ephron
In the fall of 2010, I had the privilege of appearing in a show at Toronto’s Panasonic Theatre, penned by the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, entitled “Love, Loss, and What I Wore”. It was a compilation of monologues about the sentimental attachments we have to certain pieces of clothing, and how we often see others, and define ourselves, through …