Last Saturday Erin and I had our picture taken on Ossington for the blog “the perfect pairing”.
The blog focuses on street fashion footwear. It’s really fun to see the interesting shoes – but terrible for the future of my bank account as I, like so many am addicted to beautiful shoes. To make matters worse – I can find where each pair is from so easily from the descriptions located below each picture.
To see more from the perfect pairing Click here.
On another note – Erin’s shoes (located on the left of the above photo) are from Aldo and were quite reasonably priced. We liked them so much we ended up using them for our SS11 photoshoot. Pictures to follow soon.
My shoes (located on the right of the photo above this one) are from Chasse Gardee on Queen street West at Dovercourt. They were marked down 80% and are such a good investment. You can see them in the photo above located on one of the top most shelves. They had so many beautiful new arrivals as well as insanely well priced sale stock. I vowed to only purchase shoes in the future from this boutique. To find out more about Chasse Gardee click here.
Another great article on the fleeting fast fashion market and it’s slow demise.
Read the article here.
Great article on the price of cheap clothing in the Globe and Mail online. More reason to purchase made in Canada clothing and invest in humanity.
Click here for the full article.
Thanks to Denise!
I’ve got a date with the Mister – watching one of my classic favorites “How to succeed in business without really trying” starring Robert Morse.
Some may know him from “The loved One”, a satirical look at the funeral business in Los Angeles although this reminded me alot of Harold and Maude. Or rather, Harold and Maude reminded me a lot of IT.
Most of you know him today as Bertram Cooper on the very popular AMC “Mad Men“ drama.
New season begins in less than a month!
We’ve recently been added to the website 100milefinds.com. It acts as an online local fashion finder.
When you find something of interest you can explore a sample of the creators work on their personal page, read up on what the company is all about and view the map and address to check it out in person!
I really liked how many local places I love came up on my 100 mile find search when I entered my address. It was fun to see familiar brands/boutiques along with ones I haven’t yet had the pleasure of exploring.
To check out the site click here.
Take no prisoners PLAID magazine editor/CEO/femme extraordinaire asked us to an interview a few weeks ago with April Buordolone.
For the full interview Click here.
I am slow on the uptake as I was off internet for a few, what with moving and all. But I am so enamoured with this publication that I just HAD to ensure I passed not only this interview with us on (for obvious personal business reasons) but because I believe everyone I know should be reading this piece of vacation from ennui.
Odessa is the most fashion competent person I know and really SHOULD have been doing this sort of thing since before Erin and I met her back in … oh lord. 2004? Regardless. I’m so glad she’s doing it now. Because without this little gem to tide me over week to week, I can’t imagine the garbage I would be consuming in terms of magazine consumption.
Congratulations to you Odessa on your proffessional success and MUCH congrats and felicitations to you and James on your personal achievements. Erin and I both wish you much luck in your new life together!
Recently on May 28, 2010, an iphone application launched (by way of Miki Setlur of Headset Labs) entitled “STYLEFILE- explore fashion”. It initially included 14 Canadian designers with a new one added each week.
We were lucky enough to have been approached in the first round and have found the application very useful. It acts like a handheld mini collection device. We are able to properly show our work on a handheld. As some may know, websites don’t quite load properly on cellphones and are difficult to navigate at times, what with all the throwing your fingers out diagonally to enlarge an image. Nothing is more frustrating when it doesn’t work and you sit there repeatedly “enlarging” an image and saying”sorry one minute….hold on… OH! there is is… wait it’s gone…what the hell is it doing?!…” Etc, etc.etc.
Regardless, with this application, those days are OVER.
SO. Please get this app for FREE (yessssss) at your app store and enjoy all the wonderful Las Valentias wonderfulness as well as all the other very talented Canadian design brands. This way you may spend your time wisely whilst riding the subway/streetcar/car/motorcycle/vespa/bike/pogo stick/dogsled.
And you can do it in style.
Check out this post on LAS VALENTIAS by URBANEBLOC. Click here.
I love a good magazine. However as I mentioned here last week – there are very few stimulating and worthwhile publications which bother a read.
Then there is HOBO magazine. It is a true lifestyle magazine. Art, fashion, photography, film, music, travel, interviews and environment are all categorized in a symphony of cacophony. I mean this in the most sincere way. Because usually all these subjects would be daunting and messy and poorly organized – casting shallow glances over whatever is new a la every other major magazine. But this is not HOBO.
Photo Jeff Petry
I first discovered HOBO by way of a friend a few years ago. I was happy to hear it was Canadian. She told me it was a travel magazine. Which is true if you consider the very act of reading it as a traveling experience. Yet it is so much more. Although I could cover the breadth of people, place and things included in each issue, I would rather you discover it for yourself.
Photo Henry Roy
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.” - Albert Einstein
Ain’t that the truth.
photo by Sarah Brown for cover of Plaid magazine entitled “Lashes”
Odessa Paloma Parker recently started PLAID magazine – an online sanctuary for those dedicated to full spectrum clandestine design. Let’s face it – there are sufficient outlets in the magazine and online world covering the surface level of fashion and style. So what’s refreshing about PLAID is it’s focus on what I’m not hearing about anywhere else. Odessa hasn’t limited herself to one area of the design world. Her focus is to cover boutiques, designers, accessories and style icons ranging from haute to bas, local to foreign and cusp to proven.
Three print editions will be released throughout the year making this magazine a little more limited and a lot more special.
Click on the link below, add yourself to the mailing list and enjoy!
Plaid Magazine
