Montreal online store sells designer duds at bargain prices

Not everyone can afford to pay full pop for their favourite designer styles, so a Montreal web-based company has created a site to help you look like a million bucks without blowing your budget.

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Toxic accessories in Canadian homes

The flagship store for the Canadian retail chain Garage is in the heart of Montreal's shopping district, a destination for fashionable tween and teen girls and a world away from the southern Chinese town of Shenzhen, where a batch of Garage jewelry was made last year.

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• Gallery: Lead jewelry recall in 2010

Cool and eclectic jazz-fest looks

The jazz festival is a time for signature Montreal style, where showgoers don their favourite hipster accent pieces -fedoras, blazers, brightly coloured T-shirts and tote bags. Though categorically hip, Montrealers do tend to run the gamut of cool concert looks. Some gents go for dapper, while certain ladies go for sexy and streamlined. These varied looks not only reflect the city's multiculturalism, but they also expose the eclectic mix of music at the festival, whether it's Lionel Richie at Place des Arts, or the Slew Live triple DJ event presented by Spank Rock and Kid Koala at Metropolis.

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Style File: Shorts in bloom

The long and the short on this season's hottest shorts

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Sun, shine and beauty

Get your glow on this summer

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PVM hosts a quick look at city's fashion industry

Place Ville Marie hosts exhibition celebrating Montreal fashion in runup to its 50th anniversary in 2012.

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Going, going, gone!

In an online 'flash sale'the fastest shoppers landthe biggest fashion bargains

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• "It's all about getting a deal"

Fresh scents for Father's Day

There comes a time in every man's life -a few times, actually -when he has to put his go-to scent to rest and search for a new signature fragrance. And these moments of deliberation can be quite stressful for a man, even if it just means choosing that perfect crisp smelling Axe body wash in his teens, or d

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• Gallery:Fresh scents for Father's Day

It's in to be thin

Guys have to deal with unrealistic body images, too, and it can only get worse with a mannequin, called the Homme Nouveau, that is coming to a store near you.

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Constant Shopper: Eyes wide at the museum ball

Montrealers showed their finest masks, fangs and fantasies at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Eyes Wide Open ball.

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Denis Gagnon for Bedo: Tailoring the clothes to fit the price point

Affordable collection offers his signature leather and beading, but no fringe

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Gallery: Verre Couture Fashion Show

Saturday night's Verre Couture fashion show featured 14 works that were collaborations between fashion designers and glass artists. Here is a selection of photos from the event at the Science Centre Belvedere.

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Sex And This City

Rouge Nail Bar might well be considered Sex and the City headquarters in Montreal.

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Design File: Beyond the glass slipper

People who wear glass dresses shouldn't ... You might come up with a witty rejoinder to that saying after viewing what is looking -clearly - like a blockbuster fashion show Saturday night.

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Design File: Fashioning chairs at interior design show

Jean-Claude Poitras knows a thing or two about design. So when Montreal's international interior design show (SIDIM) opens Thursday, he'll be there, for the third year running, showing his home collections and participating in the Chair Show, in which 11 teams of artists and designers -including painter Cor

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