White Wedding Pop Up Shop – May 31, 2013

White Wedding Pop Up Shop – May 31, 2013

Soundslikeyellowphotography invites you and your lovely ladies out for a night of fashion, photos, beauty, love and fun!

Come and join us for a one-night only event featuring amazing local talented vendors to help you plan that big day, or even to just have a great night out!

5:00pm until 11:15pm

The Theatre Centre
1095 Queen Street West
Toronto

More Than Just A Yardage Sale 2013 – May 24 – 25, 2013

On Friday May 24 and Saturday May 25, the Textile Museum of Canada will host its 18th annual More Than Just a Yardage Sale. Organized and run by the Museum’s Volunteer Association, the Sale raises significant funds in support of the Museum’s collections, exhibitions and public programs.

Continually expanding in scale, the More Than Just a Yardage Sale has become a not-to-be-missed event for textile and craft enthusiasts across the GTA. Supported by year-round generous donations, the sale features an abundant selection of dressmaking and decorator fabric, household and vintage linens, quilting supplies, patterns, yarn, beads, buttons and books – even traditional costume – all at bargain prices.

One of the Museum’s largest fundraisers, the annual event is entirely dependent upon the time, talent and energy of the TMC Volunteer Association which contributes over 15,000 hours to the Museum annually – the equivalent of 8 full time positions. A team of over 120 volunteers brings the event to fruition, working year-round to gather, sort and price donations, as well as managing the sale.

The 18th annual More Than Just a Yardage Sale will be held in tents temporarily installed in the parking lot adjacent to the Textile Museum of Canada at 55 Centre Avenue, Toronto (St. Patrick subway station at University Avenue and Dundas Street). The sale runs from 11 am – 6 pm on Friday, May 24 and 10 am – 1 pm on Saturday May 25. Admission to the sale is free. Regular Museum hours apply.

Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto

CAFTCAD Spring Movie Wardrobe Sale – May 25, 2013

More than 30 Vendors – including: Retailers, Clothing Wholesalers, Industry Suppliers, Clothing Rental Houses, Costumes from Film and Television Productions.

NEW Vendors to the Sale: Freda’s Womens Designer Wear and new Designer Samples.

Admission $5.00 per person, with a portion of the proceeds going to The Actors Fund. Children and Seniors free.

www.caftcad.com info@caftacd.com

Saturday May 25th, 2013
Pinewood Studios
225 Commissioner Street – 72A Bus from Pape or Union Stations www3.ttc.ca/Routes/72/Southbound.jsp
Toronto
9AM to 5PM
FREE Parking

Oval Slip Dress by complexgeometries

Another season, another complexgeometries dress I want. This Oval Slip dress is just perfect for summer. It has a halter neck which is a must for any perfect summer dress and is made from silk.

Oval Slip Dress by complexgeometries

You can purchase it online at complexgeometries.net for $676.

images: complexgeometries.net

If you were at WMCFW in Toronto this year you might have seen me with a camera entourage. Or you might have seen me doing an on camera interview backstage. The program InnerSPACE on the SPACE channel asked me take part in a segment about fashion bloggers along with Stefania Yarhi and Nathalie Atkinson.

SPACE’s flagship show, InnerSPACE is a daily entertainment talk show that covers film, television, video games, technology, comic books, gadgets, and all things genre. Hosted by Ajay Fry, Cynthia Loyst and Teddy Wilson, InnerSPACE takes its audience behind the velvet rope by giving them VIP access to the people, places, and things inside genre that they’ve grown to love.

InnerSPACE: Rise of the Fashion Blogger

The segment is called “Rise of the Fashion Blogger”.

Fashion reporting has changed in recent years with the introduction of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. If you have a device and an opinion, fashion can be instantly accessible to the masses.(source)

The video doesn’t allow embedding so here is the link where you can check it out on SPACE.ca. Watch InnerSPACE: Rise of the Fashion Blogger. InnerSPACE also had an In Studio interview with Jeanne Beker which was its own segment. You check out the link on SPACE.ca Watch Jeanne Beker in Studio.

I haven’t watch the segment yet. I love being on camera, it comes pretty naturally. However, I don’t enjoy watching the final product. I guess I’m too self conscious or too much of a perfectionist that the experience is always jarring. I’ll get around to watching this eventually, I always do in the end.

• Selfridges to offer ‘drive thru’ shopping – London – News – London Evening Standard – Selfridges is to offer what it claims will be the world’s first “drive-thru” shopping service at a department store. Customers will be able to order their purchases online before collecting them without ever having to get out of their cars.tags: Selfridges Shopping Retail Online
• Canadian retailer poised to buy Mandee, Annie Sez company – NorthJersey.com – Big M, Inc., the Totowa-based owner of the Mandee, Annie Sez, and Afaze clothing chains, will be sold to a Canadian retailer in a $22.5 million deal expected to be approved by a bankruptcy judge next week. The buyer, Toronto-based YM Inc., will continue to operate the stores, said Glenn Langberg, who was named chief restructuring officer of Big M when the retailer filed for bankruptcy in January. “They’re buying the company and they’re going to take it forward as a going concern,” rather than convert the stores to their brands,” Langberg said. “They’re a very large women’s retailer in Canada and they’re looking to expand in the United States,” he said. Langberg said the deal is expected to close the week of May 20.tags: YM Inc Canada Retail USA
• Holt Renfrew Rolls Out Second Hr2 Shop – Department Stores – Retail – WWD.com – Holt Renfrew opens the second hr2 store today, advancing its program to enlarge its footprint across Canada and broaden the appeal. The one-level, 26,000-square-foot hr2 is located in the Vaughan Mills off-price center, one half hour north of Toronto. The first hr2 unit opened March 28 at the Quartier DIX30 shopping center on the south shore of Montreal.(Sub Req’d)tags: Holt Renfrew HR2 Retail Luxury
• Bangladesh to Raise Pay for Garment Workers – WSJ.com – Bangladesh’s government, facing pressure to improve standards in the garment industry following a deadly factory building collapse last month, announced plans to increase wages in the sector. Workers’ groups say the current $38-per-month minimum wage, half of Cambodia’s, is barely enough to scrape by on. Following the collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza, the death toll from which rose to 1,118 on Sunday, tens of thousands of workers have protested on Dhaka’s streets for higher pay.tags: Bangladesh Labour
• Pressed by Consumers, Retailers Are Revealing More – NYTimes.com – With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with working conditions, environmental issues and outsourcing are increasingly demanding similar accountability for their T-shirts. The issue has been brought to the forefront by the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed more than 800 people.tags: Fashion Retailers Designers Production
• The Store Is Media And Media Is The Store | – In a post-Internet, post-mobile world of one click access, the distribution of products has all but ceased to be the issue. When one of something can be efficiently shipped to anyone, anywhere, the question of where the sale takes place is rapidly becoming moot. In other words, in the long-term, sales of product simply can’t be the primary strategic purpose or metric for the store.tags: Retail Trends Flagship Stores Online
• The Future of Retail in the Age of the Flagship Store – Corporate Intelligence – WSJ – The invention of the car didn’t lead to the extinction of horse-drawn carriages — it just made them a rarer and more distinguished way of getting around, and primarily a tourist attraction. Now apply that same kind of idea to online shopping and the old-fashioned brick-and-mortar store: far from dying off, it could make them a less common but more impressive sight.tags: Retail Trends Flagship Stores
• Toronto stylistas join forces to create eLuxe, an online retail fashion experience | Toronto Star – The offices of Toronto’s online retail fashion pioneers eluxe.ca, are, fittingly, in one of the warehouse buildings in the city’s dwindling garment district that used to house furriers and dressmakers. In the open space dotted with cubicles on the third floor, it looks like the workplace of a dot-com enterprise or perhaps a magazine — or perhaps somewhere in between the two, which probably most accurately describes eLuxe’s business.tags: eLuxe Susie Sheffman Joanna Track Online Retail Editorial
• BoF Exclusive | Nicolas Ghesquière Finally Speaks On Why He Left Balenciaga – BoF – The Business of Fashion – After months of silence, Nicolas Ghesquiere has finally spoken out. Today, BoF brings you the global exclusive excerpt of his interview with System magazine where he reveals the circumstances surrounding his abrupt departure from Balenciaga.tags: Nicolas Ghesquière Balcenciaga Interview Designer

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A Bit of Clay on the Skin – May 16 – August 11, 2013

A Bit of Clay on the Skin – May 16 – August 11, 2013
A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewellery explores the appeal of ceramics, especially porcelain, in jewellery. Organized by the Fondation d’Entreprise Bernardaud and curated by the renowned German-born goldsmith and jewellery artist Monika Brugger, the exhibition showcases the versatility and allure of the medium, which can be modeled or cast, used alone or with metal, wood, and stone, and vary in color and texture.

The exhibition presents 140 works and features the work of 20 cutting-edge jewellery artists, including creations by such notables as Peter Hoogeboom (The Netherlands), Ted Noten (The Netherlands), Gésine Hackenberg (Germany), Marie Pendariès (Spain), and Shu-Lin Wu (Taiwan). While some make reference to traditional jewellery in materials and symbolism, others altogether redefine it in substance, form, and matter.

Gardiner Museum
111 Queen’s Park
Toronto

Bluenotes for National Denim Day – May 14, 2013

It’s National Denim Day on May 14, 2013 and Canadian denim giant, Bluenotes is continuing it’s participation in the event. Bluenotes will donate $1 for every denim purchase across the country during the week of May 14, 2013

Leading Canadian denim philanthropists Bluenotes will donate a portion of proceeds from each denim purchase nationwide from May 13 to May 19, 2013 in partnership with National Denim Day to the fight against breast cancer. Benefitting the CURE Foundation, the fundraiser advocates education and awareness through wearing and purchasing jeans.

“Bluenotes’ goal is to bring attention to today’s youth about social and charitable issues through fashion,” says Royal Nasager, Director of Marketing at Bluenotes. “We want to foster tomorrow’s concerned, caring and informed citizens. Our work with National Denim Day is a natural fit.”

Royal Nasager from Bluenotes invited me to the Eaton Centre store to talk about Denim Day and reintroduce me to the brand. I haven’t purchased anything from Bluenotes in probably 15 years and I can’t remember that last time I even walked through the store. The invite intrigued me for two reasons. First reason was the name Royal. It seems shallow but I opened the envelope, looked at the invite, scratched my head and thought “This dude’s name is Royal. This is blowing my mind. I must meet him just to satisfy my catlike curiosity.” The second reason had curiosity at its core too. I’m curious about Bluenote’s business. They are one part of the massive Toronto based apparel manufacturer, YM Inc.. Bluenotes alone has 120 stores across the country and they’ve been around since 1984. Bluenotes operated under the name Thriftys until 2004. I’m a child of the 70s that grew up in Richmond Hill, prime target for the Thriftys brand. My curiosity about Royal was satiated. He’s a very lovely man. He talked to me about National Denim Day and the company’s history of charity work. I didn’t ask many questions about company operations, there wasn’t much time as I was on lunch.

Royal asked me the dreaded question, “So, when is the last time you walked into a Bluenotes store.” I answered it truthfully which was I couldn’t remember. Royal gave me a $100 gift card and said let’s get reintroduced. He also walked me through the many, many styles of denim available. Every style you can think represented in a number of washes. Bluenotes is taking advantage of the printed and colourful denim trend with a range of colours and prints available. (We stuck to the Women’s side, sorry Guys). Denim at Bluenotes retails for $20 – $39.50 making it very affordable for their 14 – 24 demographic.

Right To Play Gala 2013 – Wearing Bluenotes, Greta Constantine and Nine West

I ended up with two pairs of jeans from their curvy line, a sleeveless button up shirt and a cropped denim jacket. I liked a lot of other printed and coloured skinny styles but they aren’t really made to fit my thighs and butt. The denim jacket is my favourite piece. I needed a cropped jacket as I lost my favourite one a few years ago. The idea of getting a denim jacket again was bopping around in my head so it worked out perfect. I haven’t worn anything but the jacket as of yet. I wore it to the Right to Play Gala last Friday.

Bluenotes aren’t going to replace my Hudson’s anytime soon. They are my go to denim and the brand I tend to wear the most often. I like my denim fabric to have a heavier weight than Bluenotes. I’m a bit of a snob about denim manufactured in the States too. I hope YM Inc.is one of the companies getting involved in the Bangladesh Factory Safety Pact.

images: courtesy of Bluenotes and CANDICE&ALISON

The lovely folks at Cat Footwear have provided me with a pair shoes to give away to one of my readers. The prize shoes are my top choice from the Cat Footwear spring summer 2013 collection, The Worksong. The winner gets to choose which colourway they want too. I’m partial to the lavender myself.

Worksong by Cat Footwear

For this contest, Cat Footwear and I want to see how you will style your Worksong’s. So you must include a link to your Style collage in the comment. You can use Pinterest, Polyvore or whatever your choose. Please include a full look minus the shoes. You can go as crazy or as minimal as you like, there are no rules.

Worksong by Cat Footwear

Cat Footwear has introduced me to some great casual styles for summer. I always thought they were just a work boot company. Be sure to check out the collection on the Cat Footwear website.

How To Participate

1. Like I want – I got on Facebook – facebook.com/iwantigot

2. Enter by leaving this comment on this page “Here is my Cat Footwear Worksong look @iwantigot!” along with a link to your Style collage . You must also tweet this comment and include a link to @iwantigot. There is plenty of room for a link to the photo in the tweet. So your tweet should look something like this:
“Here is my Worksong look @iwantigot! http://pinterest.com/pin/45176802484502948/”

3. To be eligible for the prize I need a valid email address – this will be kept secure and private and will not be published. You MUST Like I want – I got, comment, tweet with a photo to be eligible for a prize

4. Submissions must be received by May 18, 2013 11:59EST. If they come in after the 18th they will not be in the running for the prize. The winners will be selected randomly from the submissions.

I’ll announce the winners on May 19, 2013. The winners will be notified via email.

The Rules

1. The contest is open to residents of Canada.

2. I reserve the right to change anything if I have to.

3. There are no prize substitutions. If you cannot take delivery I will pick another winner.

4. I will accept 1 entry per person.

Standard Apparel Spring Summer 2013 Sample Sale – May 23 – 25, 2013

Standard Apparel spring/summer 2013 sample sale

Date/time: Thursday, May 23, Friday, May 24 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, May 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Standard Apparel showroom, 87 Wingold Ave, Unit 1, Toronto
Deals: Up to 70% off Fred Perry, Oliver Spencer, Sunspel, Filson, Aigle, Gloverall and Mads Norgaard