From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Rock God

Fashion
May 31, 2010 | By: Michelle

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Designer Todd Lynn talks the future of the internet, giving back and his Fall 2010 collection

On a sweltering May afternoon, we made the trek uptown to the Holt Renfrew Bloor Street locale for a brief chat with London-based, Canadian-bred designer Todd Lynn, to talk about his Fall 2010 collection, naturally. While the models who sported Lynn’s fur, leather and shaved lamb creations on the runway the night before at the Strut For A Cure event on Queen East seemed to manage without passing out, this girl didn’t feel worthy of putting on such luxe items over her summer ensemble. Read More…

Fashion News May 31

Fashion
May 31, 2010 | By: Michelle

FNEWS Fashion News May 31

FASHION NEWS MAY 31

The new Drake General Store, in collaboration with Shared clothing will open this Saturday in the King West area of Toronto.

Model and socialite Lydia Hearst is looking to muscle up as she plans to take on action movies as her next project.

Nanette Lepore has designed staff uniforms for the Thompson LES lounge, Above Allen.

StyleBubble and UK writer Susie Bubble discusses her faves from the fresh crop of new Central Saint Martin’s grads.

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Culture
May 28, 2010 | By: Rachelle

SPRING SOIREE

This past Wednesday FrontRowMag was honoured to co-host Get Glam for A Cause with Guess By Marciano, co-hosted by Ainsley Kerr, event specialist for Rethink Breast Cancer, at the Guess Eaton Centre location. Over 200 guests sipped on wine and Fiji water, and nibbled on snacks, on the extremely warm May evening, while shopping for a great a cause. Attendees at the invite only event, most of whom walked away with stuffed-to-the-brim shopping totes, donated $5 to Rethink Breast Cancer and received an amazing 20 percent off their Guess by Marciano purchase, just in time for summer. Designer Ashley Rowe, jewelry maven Shay Lowe, Lindsay Lorimer-Stewart of Guess and Anokhi editor in chief Hina Ansari were among the crowd.

Photography by Kerwin Jadraque

Fashion News May 27

Fashion
May 27, 2010 | By: Michelle

FNEWS Fashion News May 27

FASHION NEWS MAY 27

The team behind the Alexander McQueen label has named Sarah Burton, as it’s new creative director.

Olivier Theyskens will be designing a capsule collection for Theory.

TopShop is finally making a stop in Canada, as Toronto retailer Jonathon & Olivia will welcome the UK brand into its new-expanded store for a pop up shop on starting June 19th.

Hermès will replace Jean Paul Gaultier with Christophe Lemaire after the Spring 2011 collection.

Giles Deacon is officially in at Ungaro. Can he really save the struggling label??

Sweet Mango

Culture
May 26, 2010 | By: Michelle

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SWEET MANGO

Mango Studios plays host to our last ScotiaBank Contact Photography Festival stop

As the month long Contact 2010 comes to an end, we were delighted to pop by Mango one warm evening decided to surround ourselves one last time with some spectacular pieces.

We found ourselves drawn to Nancy Costa’s Untitled Series, where a ghost image on a glass transfer was resting over the black and white retro-inspired images. Mo Govimndji’s retro-dessert shots of low-hung houses, palm trees and vintage cars wer made even more sleek with the shiny, resin coating added on top of the prints. And taking a more fashionable approach Zach Hertzman’s Synedoche series featured haunting images of a woman, blunt bangs and sleek hair, eyes always closed or hidden, wearing dramatic statements necklaces and earrings. On until May 31st, 2010.