aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Have you got a prom to go in the forest? A tea party with a fairy, perhaps? Then Gabbeh has the dress for you. Lambskin leather and suede cave-woman wear, neon taffeta dresses, and deconstructed dresses in earth tones rocked the runway this past Satu...

topics: designer, fashion

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Last year's Next Generation winners, Red Jade, carried on its legacy of environmentally responsible fashions at last week's BC Fashion Week's show at Circa Lounge on Granville. Models emerged from behind a collection of tree stumps and did a walk thr...

topics: designer, fashion, lounge, show

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Guest written by Angela Uncles.The Spring/Summer 2010 Jaqueline Conoir collection, brought to fruition by designer Rozemerie Cuevas, kicked off BC Fashion week at the Fortune Sound Club in Chinatown. The show featured what has become the standard of ...

topics: business, chinatown, designer, fashion, show

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In 1974 Rosemary told me that life didn't look to good in our Mexico City. She added that she saw a difficult future for our daughters Alexandra and Hilary. She suggested we move to Canada. We put our house for sale and we quit our teaching jobs. We ...

topics: design, designer

aggregated from: Stylefinds

As a Vancouver fashion blogger, it gives me immense pleasure to see talented individuals from our fair city get recognition for the amazing work they're doing. Malene Grotrian is one such talent. I've been a huge fan of her work since meeting her at ...

topics: designer, downtown, fashion

aggregated from: Stylefinds

Launched by creative director Kim Sanieyan for spring 2009, Noir Bonbon is a fun, edgy line of sustainable, locally produced clothing. Kim, who studied marketing in Montreal, moved to Vancouver 3 years ago. She and her partner launched a web developm...

topics: designer, fashion

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In two cute new videos from Chronicle Books, Canadian author Sara Gillingham reads her new finger puppet books (beautifully illustrated by Lorena Siminovich) IN MY TREE and IN MY POND to her son Caskey: Each lovely little board book book in this seri...

topics: author, designer

aggregated from: Stylefinds

I don't usually post on weekends, but I wanted to remind Vancouver readers that Spend on Trend is happening right now! This is your chance to shop Canadian-made and designed goodies from all sorts of designers, both emerging and established. I had a ...

aggregated from: Stylefinds

My interview with Elizabeth Law, the designer behind the clothing line Wise & Proper, is slightly different from most interviews I do. First, our plans to meet go awry when we end up at different Starbucks locations downtown--something which has neve...

topics: artist, arts, design, designer, downtown

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Not too long ago I received an unusual invitation from a renowned local designer to help in a workshop that was to address the declining esprit de corps of the arts staff of one of our city's best design institute/college. I attended some of the talk...

topics: artist, arts, design, designer, museum