F-listed Anniversary Auction is Live!

Happy birthday to me! For the next ten days explore F-listed, the first online auction of its kind. Browse and bid on fashionable goods donated by Canadian designers, retailers, tastemakers and celebrities across Canada. 

New items will be added throughout the week, so check back frequently. Are you on the mailing list? We'll notify you when new items go live. Sign up here.

Proceeds help support Dress for Success Toronto, a cause I feel passionately about because we all deserve to look and feel our best. Dress for Success not only outfits disadvantaged women in professional attire, it helps them enter the professional world with mentoring and job interview training. It's a volunteer organization with outlets all over North America.

For more on F-listed, click here. Shop, browse and bid now, click here!

Enjoy the Art of Fashion VIP Style

You know it's fall when people are talking Nuit Blanche. This Saturday, October 1st the all-night contemporary art event returns to Toronto streets and galleries. Why not start your evening off with some VIP treatment at the Art of Fashion event?

At the Art of Fashion, ten emerging Canadian designers bring their collections to life in an exhibit space and through a fashion show where they compete for 2 awards: Most Promising Designer is decided by an industry judging panel, and Best Exhibit is voted by the public. You can also shop the Art of Fashion's designer boutique featuring original works by apparel and accessories designers.

Win a pair of tickets to the Art of Fashion's VIP reception (6pm - 7pm) at the Pantages Hotel featuring complimentary food and beverages. Send an email to info@f-list.ca with ART OF FASHION in the subject line by midnight on September 27th for your chance to win. Winners will be contacted via email and confirmed by September 29th.

Fashion Mission Montreal: Next Stop, Musee des Beaux Arts

The Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the Musee des Beaux Arts was the raison d'etre for my Montreal visit. After seeing the McQueen exhibit in New York (opening day, no queue!) I was adamant about catching JPG during its short run (through October 2, 2011) so close to home. 

This tribute to the l'enfant terrible of fashion begins with a most impressive display of nearly live mannequins. Faces of real people are projected and animated onto mannequin heads for an effect that is sometimes surprising and mildly disturbing.  (More on the mannequins here.) Aside from Gaultier's work itself - which includes 130 emsembles, sketches, photographs and films - they are the most riveting part of the exhibition.

I've always been a fan of Gaultier's punk sensibilities, and have closely followed him since his pointy corsets for Madonna's Blond Ambition Tour (saw that too!). In today's world I find his point of view and expression against oppression more than relevant - I find it necessary.

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Top hat made of hair

Hat designed from vintage hair dryer