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Style Rewind 2010: Here's the beef - globalization
Mass consumption rules, and local designers and retailers feel the pain, like Andy The-Anh
Gallery: Razzle dazzle for New Year's Eve
New Year’s Eve still has a rollicking vibe where you can don starlet-worthy glamour. Here's how to get in the mood.
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And the bride wore bits of black
Weddings are bringing a little sexy back, with more adventurous trends emerging
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Fake coats have chilling effect on Canada Goose
It is an iconic Canadian company that has become the global go-to brand for extreme cold weather gear. But popularity, its seems, has its price.
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Use twigs, lichen and pine cones to make wreath
This winter wreath pays homage to both the gardener and the outdoors. It can be hung on a front door, in a window, over a mantelpiece or laid flat on a table or sideboard.
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Vegan compassion is in the bag Matt and Nat's Inder Bedi
The 37-year-old founder of the vegan accessories line was asked at age 18 by a Hare Krishna priest to go vegetarian for 30 days: “And it changed my whole life"
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Little blogger born into fashion
Shy, with an eclectic sense of style, Zola Martin-Lim made her fashion debut at 6 and started her blog almost a year ago at age 11
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Spa deals recognize that people ‘need escapism’
Spas in the city and farther afield are responding to the current climate of austerity by offering some great deals
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Handmade Montreal
Mile End is the nucleus of a creative movement that's put a new spin on traditional crafts
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Bring a white Christmas to your holiday table
None of us knows how late December will unfold, if it will bring more sleet or rain or snow, whether Christmas will be dry or slushy, grey or bright or, to channel Irving Berlin or Bing Crosby, it will be white – and the treetops will glisten.
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Settings with style and beauty
"I don't think Christmas is the traditional red and green, silver and gold anymore," says floral arranger Orysia Krywiak.
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Debbie Travis dishes on decorating with baubles
Nice to know that even Canada's maven of the home makeover has a few holiday decoration skeletons in her closet. In particular, it's a Christmas fairy, a threadbare and ratty Marilyn Monroe look-alike who is unsightly but beloved by Travis' grown children. Travis has tried relegating the cringeworthy fairy to the back of the tree, but the fairy always mysteriously winds up back in the front.
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Battling the closet bulge
Don't be delusional and go gaga for sequins. Know your body. Shop your closet. And do not starve. Those are a few of the bons mots from Phillip Bloch when he proposes you go on a shopping diet.
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Quebecer Chantal Stafford-Abbott: Portrait of a model
Model Chantal Stafford-Abbott has a lovely, sweet smile in conversation and when the video camera points at her
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Montreal designer Andy Thé Anh closes shop
A sign on the door of the Cours Mont Royal shop says a liquidation sale starts Thursday morning
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Waxing sensitive parts needs expert touch
My favourite Jerry Seinfeld joke goes: "I don’t understand how a woman can take boiling hot wax, pour it on her upper thighs, rip the hair out at the roots and then still be afraid of a spider." If Jerry could only fathom the other places where many women, and a few men, are willing to get waxed he’d probably faint.
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Smell it like Beckham: celebrity scents lure men
British and Italian men will be hoping to catch a whiff of celebrity this Christmas, according to a survey released on Friday.
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