Pull up your socks and gift wrap them
Tracy Nesdoly  
Never mind the stockings hung by the chimney with care – which, after all, are just decoration. Let us, instead, consider that other elemental holiday mainstay, the ...

Draped in shades of drama
David Livingstone  
At about 5:45 last Saturday evening, the strapless taffeta cocktail mini was saying hello to the columnar gown in slinky charmeuse as the Canadian beauty biz arrived for the Look ...

Michelle Obama's fashion
Trish Crawford  
Every time Michelle Obama wears one of her unusual dress selections on television, the item flies off the shelves.

Valli's dresses defy convention
Bernadette Morra  
For Giambattista Valli, pushing boundaries isn't a matter of creative indulgence, but necessary to building and distinguishing a luxury brand.

Hannah Montana goes retro
Samantha Critchell  
As Miley Cyrus rocks out in the third season of Hannah Montana , she channels Madonna circa 1985.

Designs on Obama
Daphne Gordon  
Barack Obama is not just the next president of the United States. He's also the new face of fashion.

Shopping is art at AGO
Tracy Nesdoly  
Malls are for amateurs. The truly stylish and discerning shopper will opt for the more refined (and far less crowded) environs of the museum gift shop to flesh out the holiday gift ...

Living in a material world
Derick Chetty  
For Toronto's hardcore fashion followers, it was the opportunity of a lifetime.

Mayhem erupts at H&M
Derick Chetty  
It had the makings of a midnight madness sale – swarms of aggressive shoppers ravaging clothing racks, grabbing armfuls of merchandise.

No red lipstick for ballet's Giselle
Bernadette Morra  
National Ballet of Canada dancers do all their own makeup for stage.

Sportswear label grows beyond maritime roots
David Livingstone  
Paul & Shark is a maker of fine sportswear that lets its logo do the talking. Featured on 99 per cent of the goods that the company makes, it's a rather ...

Decadent by design
Derick Chetty  
It is most associated with being delicious, comforting, fattening, an aphrodisiac even. But fashion?

First Comme, first served
Derick Chetty  
Diehard fashionistas better set their alarm clocks next Thursday.

Gala turns gory into glam
Derick Chetty  
The decision to move this year's Fashion Cares bash from spring to fall, and inject it with a Halloween theme is in keeping with pop culture's new-found appreciation for all that's ...

A many plumed trend
David Livingstone  
Hope, described by the poet Emily Dickinson as "the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," is on the wing, and other kinds of feathered things are everywhere.

Excuse me, but my dress is ringing
The '60s TV sitcom Get Smart brought us the shoe phone, but now a dress phone?

Alt peels back the curtain
Rita Zekas  
We are supersaturated with supermodels – Project Runway , America's Next Top Model , Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency and Naomi Campbell's anger management meltdowns (why ...