Sometimes, there really is no place like home. That was a lesson that Margherita Missoni learned not that long ago, when she finally forsook her thespian dreams and decided that a gig with her family’s legendary fashion house might not be such a bad option after all. The 29-year-old heiress, who married Edmonton-born race car driver Eugenio Amos in a …
Lise Watier
I think I have a girl crush on Lise Watier. In town to launch a new line of “Age Control” products, the ageless Quebec make-up doyenne is warm, charismatic, and downright beautiful. She’s also one heck of a businesswoman, having built her cosmetics company into a mini empire since first founding it almost 40 years ago. And it was a …
Kelly Osbourne
All those with wild and impertinent teenagers take heart: Kelly Osbourne, who first stepped into the spotlight in 2002 on the MTV award-winning reality series, The Osbournes, as the chubby, uber-bratty daughter of legendary bat-biting rock star Ozzy Osbourne, has blossomed. Her new incarnation— having battled alcohol and drug addiction, dropped 42 lbs., penned an autobiography entitled, “Fierce”, and wowed …
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Fashion influencers come and go, but few have had as much impact as the legendary Diana Vreeland. The Paris-born fashion doyenne and visionary, who began her career editing Harper’s Bazaar back in 1936, went on to become the editor-in-chief of Vogue in the glorious ‘60s and later in life, until her death in 1989, was the “muse-in-residence” at New York’s …
J.Crew Menswear
There’s something mixed up going on in men’s fashion. If you think you can handle it, has J. Crew got a collection for you! Those enamoured with the joys of offbeat colours, rugged and clean pieces teamed together, and unexpected graphic print combos are bound to delight in the news that the two new J. Crew stores opening here next …
Izzy Camilleri
There’s lots of talk about the democratization of fashion these days. But making great style accessible to everyone usually has more to do with affordable price points than anything else. And while more and more designers are warming up to the idea of dressing all body types, the furthest they consider venturing is into the plus size realm. That’s why …
Isaac Mizrahi
A purveyor of modern American glamour throughout the ‘90s, Brooklyn-born designer Isaac Mizrahi is adamant about working the fashion beat from every angle. A one-time Yeshiva student and performing arts major, 51–year-old Mizrahi got his first sewing machine at the age of 10. Combining his love of fashion and his enthusiasm for theatre, he created a popular label and staged …
Heidi Klum
We’re at Yorkville’s swank Hazelton Hotel and Heidi Klum is sad. Looking like Glamazon Barbie in a red tailored pantsuit and blond ponytail, the 38-year-old, 5’9” German beauty had her heart set on shopping Toronto’s mink mile, but it’s been pouring rain all morning and now she’s got a spate of media interviews to finish and a plane to catch. …
Jean Paul Gaultier
I’ve had the joy of meeting countless designers these past 25 years, but the most impishly charming has to be Jean Paul Gaultier, the one-time “enfant terrible” of fashion. The genius French couturier, who put men in skirts, Madonna in conical bras and Dita Von Teese in corsets, presented his first ready-to-wear collection back in 1976. Today, Gaultier remains wonderfully …
Elton John + David Furnish
If ever there was a poster boy for passion, Elton John is it. And all those attending tonight’s Fashion Cares gala at the Sony Centre will undoubtedly bear witness to that, as the music legend rocks the stage for his most cherished cause: the battle against AIDS. Elton’s partner, Scarborough native David Furnish, is co-chairing this monumental last edition of …
Crazy Rich Asians
Plunging headlong into summer usually demands some juicy reading material. If you’re the sort who loves being swept away by jet set stories of the fabulous life, complete with larger-than-life characters, fantastic fashion and plenty of inter-generational strife, Kevin Kwan’s satirical “Crazy Rich Asians” might deliver for you. It’s packed with the kind of outrageous, over-the-top imagery and that’s bound …
Stephan Caras and Matthew Gallagher
With eclecticism the operative word in fashion today, Toronto’s World Master Card Fashion Week promises to be right on trend. Some 27 disparate labels will be vying for the attention of media and buyers, each designer eager to make an indelible mark on the burgeoning Canadian fashion landscape. And while some of this country’s brightest fashion lights may not be …
Daphne Guinness and James Gager
Of all the artistic wonders I luxuriated in during Miami’s recent Art Basel fair, few were more inspiring than Daphne Guinness herself. The 43-year-old British heiress and haute mode aficionado, who turned herself into a virtual work of art with her sublime sense of aesthetics and brave creative choices, swooped into Miami to launch her latest project with MAC: a …
Lambertson Truex
Back in the late ‘90s, I met a pair of New York handbag designers— Richard Lambertson and John Truex—who kindly loaned me a gorgeous little evening bag to wear to the CFDA Awards. The quality of this wee accessory was exquisite, and I strutted it proudly: Richard and John were the first bag designers I’d ever met, and I felt …
Giles Deacon
For ladies who lunch, it doesn’t get much better than being treated to an intimate, high fashion show at a chic downtown eatery in the presence of a much-buzzed-about international designer, all for a great cause. That was the case at the Thompson Hotel’s Scarpetta recently, as Yorkville’s swank George C. boutique hosted a charity fashion luncheon to benefit the …
Arianna Huffington
As glamourous as she is intellectual, Arianna Huffington has positioned herself perfectly in the eye of the new media storm. At the helm of the ever-popular Huffington Post, the online publication which she launched in 2005, and sold six years later to AOL for 315 million dollars, the Greek-born journalist, author, and entrepreneur continues to mastermind an international brand that …