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Designers, Not Content with Mere Dresses, Make Hotels Haute

February 10, 2012

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Gone are the days when good beds were good beds, extra pillows were luxuries, and telephones were decidedly not colourful orgasms of designer hand-knit crochet. No longer are hotel guests thrilled to discover that Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, once nailed their room’s furniture to the ceiling. Nowadays, that sort of thing is only […]

Final Walk Video: Korhani Home S/S 2012

October 20, 2011

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Check out one of the most amazing spectacles I’ve seen in fashion:   Photo courtesy of the Toronto Star/Bernard Weil

The Fat, the Skinny, and the Missing Average Woman

September 30, 2011

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Fashion is by nature a world of extremes and exclusivity. So it’s not surprising to find the industry’s approach to weight diversity, shall we say, unbalanced. After years of complaints about jutting bones, reverse-speed bump bellies, and frying pan asses, the powers that vogue mulled over women’s concerns and reached an inevitably superficial understanding of […]

Blood, Beauty, and Bondage

August 22, 2011

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Diversity is to the fashion industry as financial reform is to Wall Street. Public pressure demands it, Oprah likes it, and although no one dares say otherwise- most insiders really don’t give a damn. So the high ups find inventive ways to delude consumers into overlooking the same old ideals in their editorials and advertisements. […]

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