Results tagged “style”

You may have noticed the sharp rise in coffee cups littering our streets, which can only mean one thing: it’s Roll Up The Rim time at Tim Hortons once again. When Torontoist was young and starry-eyed, we used to dream of unrolling our cup and finding that we had won a car or a boat or some awesome camping gear. (What ever happened to that prize anyway? It was always the best one.) After years of winning nothing but the occasional muffin and coffee, we can’t help but feel rage every time we roll up that annoyingly pompous “Please Try Again.”

Toronto native Lucian Matis, 28, landed in second place behind Evan Biddell, a 24-year-old designer from Saskatoon, on the finale of Project Runway Canada last night. Matis, Biddell, and third-placer Marie Genevieve Cyr showed ten-piece collections at Toronto's L'Oréal Fashion Week in October as the final challenge of the reality show. The runway shows were performed in front of an audience and evaluated by the Runway judges: supermodel Iman, Elle Canada Editor Rita Silvan, and Bustle Clothing's Shawn Hewson.

Feeling “Christmassy” yet? We aren’t either (we've just assumed you weren’t, apologies if you are, or something), and there isn’t that much on at the cinema yet to start ramping up the festive joy. It’s a Wonderful Life is showing at the Fox starting tomorrow and Bad Santa is going to be on at the Revue this Wednesday. To be completely honest, if you’re going to check out anything at those cinemas, we recommend you go and see King of Kong (which we talked up last week) when it’s on. The Fox is showing This is England, too. Not Christmassy at all, but fantastic.

December is party season, but what if you don't feel like dancing? There's more to holiday dressing than disco-ball metallics and electro-shock hues. Indeed, in today's ever-flashier scene, you're most likely to stand out in a standby—the little black dress. Luckily for you nineties types, local label Common Cloth is a step ahead on the road back to minimalism. For their current fall/winter collection, scissor sisters Melanie Talbot and Kristina Bozzo cut refined, modern...

Tomorrow night, scores of arts collectives and community groups will be putting on impressive exhibits, performances, and workshops as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. The Toronto Public Space Committee thought it would be neat to do something, too, but guess which word in the event title made the TPSC uncomfortable.

Toronto’s DIY fashionistas, independent designers, eclectic personalities and thrift store scavengers get a chance to flaunt the city’s indie fashion credentials this Wednesday at the Cadillac Lounge.

You've only got a week and a half left to apply for the coolest job ever: a Torontoist contributor! The deadline is Tuesday, July 3. (If you applied and haven't received a response yet, hold tight—we're getting to everyone, but we've got like a thousand applications to go through.)

Less than a week after the Toronto Star wrote an article profiling Style in Progress' two year-old Bell box project, the box chosen for the paper's photo (shown left) has gone brown. Initially, we believed it must have been some kind of miscommunication between Bell workers, who painted over the boxes believing they had been vandalized by graffiti. A scratch test revealed the truth to be even worse: the painted doors have been stolen upgraded!

OMG! This week sees the release of Kickin' It Old Skool, a Jamie Kennedy vehicle. He plays a breakdancer who awakes from a 20-year coma and something that Jamie Kennedy probably considers hilarity ensues. We here at Torontoist Towers are astounded at the idea that somebody greenlighted a film with Jamie Kennedy in it. Absoultely gob-smacked.

We here at Torontoist are always fans of new campaigns to boost our fair city's reputation, but the problem is that most of these campaigns are, shall we say, kind of pathetic. No, actually -- not "kind of." They're just pathetic. Almost universally they cast Toronto as a handy convenient replacement for some other city you'd like to go to. "Toronto! It's almost like Paris, and you don't have to spend money on a transoceanic flight!" "A trip to Toronto is like a trip to New York, but on a Buffalo budget!" "Toronto: the Sydney of the northern hemisphere, with less ocean!" And of course we were quite disparaging regarding the city's most recent attempt in this area.

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one.

When I was thirteen, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Halifax. In the maritimes nine years ago, the Atlantic Superstores were way bigger than anything in Toronto, and they sold clothes! Needless to say, I was impressed - that is, until I tried on several pairs of ill-fitting pants and realized that Superstore clothes sucked.

God, we're so sick of that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post.

Torontoist was at the Bubble Battle at Old City Hall this afternoon... But in true Canadian Style, what was termed a was more of a peaceful sudsy sit-in.

Jam packed day today!

Graf artists at Style In Progress' Resurface proved that they're at least as hardcore as the postal service on this rainy Saturday.

When public debates flare up over whether graffiti is art or vandalism, the heat they generate doesn't even come close to that of the fires that rage within the culture itself over whether art on legal walls, painted in a graffiti style is "real" graffiti. The one thing graffiti opponents and practitioners seem to agree on is the defining element of risk and illegality that is central to the art and act we call graf.

This mysterious bench appeared at the North West corner of Queen & Northcote sometime between 11 am on Tuesday March 21, and 9:30 am, Friday March 24th.

Izakaya: All Style, No Seasoning

, a record that is unmistakeably AmAnSet. And while there are no curveballs, it's still a uniformly excellent album.

Canadians have long had to subside on a steady diet of imported celebrity tabloids, but Torstar has decided it's time to change all that, and cash in. The Torstar tabloid, which will hit newstands October 3rd, will be saddled with the unfortunate name Weekly Scoop. But hey, what's in a name? Look how well the shabbily-titled Life & Style is doing.

: shopping, do-gooding and party-hopping. Also: esoteric product hits that go from cheap (second-hand shoes) to the not-so-much ($333 Gilbert Dufour totes and Nike’s fugly Chukka boots). Still, a good way to wile away coffee breaks in the cubicle.

It's easy to avoid The Game and Fifty Cents. Likewise for Nickelback. It's even pretty easy to stay away from Thornley and the Barenaked Ladies. They don't bother us, and we don't bother them. But there are some bands, SOME bands, that bring us to the brink of violent disgust; it's almost beyond hatred. One example that is often played out here on Mercredi Mixtape is our distaste for Las Vegas corporate rockers The Killers. Most likely the result of some unresolved childhood issues, Torontoist has a hard time sleeping at night simply knowing that these bum-wipes are out there. Usually the finger-pointing and 'rockist' accusations can be heard at this point -- as at a Killers-infested party last Saturday -- to which we can only shrug. What is the reason that decent, law abiding, level-headed human beings can be so easily duped by The Killers?

. Since TOist's understanding of Canadian design begins with Karim and ends with Rashid, we may go, and learn new things. The event is free for students.

Fashionistas, thrifters and all-around shopping enthusiasts came together at the Toronto Vintage Clothing and Textile Show on Saturday in pursuit of that one, or two, or three great find(s).  The show was held at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in downtown Toronto for its first 12 years, then moved to Edwards Gardens last year, and this year found itself in the CBC Broadcast Centre.  The large atrium accommodated over twenty of Ontario’s top vintage clothing and antique textile dealers, including The Bead Goes On, Girlztown, Courage My Love, Cadabout, Petticoat Lane, Goodnight Moon, Sweet Trash, Artophile, Last Tango, and others.

This week marks the countdown to next weekend’s opening of the much-anticipated and much-debated Massive Change exhibit at the AGO. Everyone has criticized Mau’s bizarrely utopian and woolly optimism. Mau’s 2001 book, Life Style, focused on shaping design’s role in individual lives, recognizing that ‘lifestyle’ in the post-war period had come to be defined solely in terms of consumptive patterns rather than class or occupation. The argument was loosely patched together by brilliant aesthetic design and soaring catchphrases, but when broken down, puzzlingly vacant - resembling an elaborately bound PowerPoint presentation with great photography.

All these Mixtapes and you barely even know me! So here I've cut-and-paste my Blogger Profile for you.

But over at Rabble, we, and the authoress, get to leave all this consumer crap behind, and hear that pearly Mallick rant, terrifically, on why she hates SUVs, especially in the throes of holiday shopping season. Nevermind that you associated Ms. Mallick with expensive perfumes. This one hates (absolutely hates!) SUVs and the people who would deign drive them. This one sayeth pithy things like, "SUVs are like Etch-a-Sketches. They only do straight lines." So many gems, we'll forcibly forget what we skimmed of , and leave you with this Heather's pick:

Think of SUVs as gigantic cigarettes that give all the emphysema and none of the pleasure.