New Kylie!

Just released today! Kylie's single second, Wow.

The video reminds me a bit of Spinning Around and In Your Eyes mixed with a bit of Daft Punk.

The song is OK, but I really wish Speakerphone was the next single - that is my fave track.

I still loves ya Kylie!

Canada Gets Sexier With a Little Provoking

Canadian girls just got sexier!

One of the world's sexiest and stylish lingerie brands, Agent Provocateur, just opened their first Canadian store in Vancouver. With plans to open in Montreal and Toronto later this year, we're getting ready to chuck out all our La Senza crap!

Spring/Summer 2009 Trend Forecast

Ever wondered how designers figure out what colours, fabrics, silhouettes, inspirations are gonna be "in" next season? (Take for example, the whole African inspired feel of a lot of collections and the "art-as-clothing" kinda trends for Spring.)

Most designers - and all major design companies - put hundreds of thousands of dollars into trend forecasting services each season to be sure they are in line with what is going on. Which does end up explaining how many major lines produce lines with similar running themes. Of course, other things influence what determines what becomes mainstream trendy: hollywood, music, world events, etc.

It is a fascinating process. Hundreds of "trend scouts" trek all around the world's major cities, keeping track what's new on the streets, what is happening culturally, politically and socially. All this info is reported back to the trend services located in major cities like Paris, London and Milan who then process and sort through all that information and produce trend books, sorting everything by story and theme. (That's just the simplified version of it.)

Don't have $250,000 a year to subscribe to one of the services? Well, the Toronto Fashion Incubator has their Spring/Summer 2009 Trend Seminar presented by Promostyl coming up on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 5:00pm and 7:00pm.

To buy tickets, you have to be a member of TFI, but seeing as membership is only $130 for a year, and the seminar is only $25 - I just saved you $249,845!

Join TFI and get your ticket fast - i hear there are only about 10 or so left!!!

Posh in a Bag

Hate the shoes. Don't like the photography. LOVE Posh in a bag. The new Mark Jacobs' ads make me giggle.

H&M: Fashion Against AIDS

I think we're all sick and tired of celebrity fashion lines and fashion lines doing mass-market, cheap lines for retailers like H&M and Mango. This season, H&M is doing something a little different by enrolling musicians for a charity. The Fashion Against AIDS Collection is set to hit stores on January 31st and features t-shirts, tanks and hoodies designed by Rihanna, Chicks on Speed, Good Charlotte, Henrik Vibskov, Jade Jagger, Justice, Katharine Hamnett, My Chemical Romance, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, The Cardigans, Tiga, Timbaland and Ziggy Marley. Twenty-five percent of all profits go towards financing global AIDS prevention programs. The other seventy-five percent? Well, that goes to H&M, of course.

Get Your Nails Did

Kid Sister with Kanye West: Pro Nails



Kid Sister is playing at Wrongbar in Toronto this Friday. If you're gonna go - you best get your nails did!

TFI's New Label Semi-Finalists Announced

I'm gonna be a lazy blogger and post the text from TFI News. It's open to the public, tickets will be on sale sometime this month through the link noted below.

Six new designers from across Canada have been chosen to participate in the Toronto Fashion Incubator’s 2008 New Labels® Fashion Design Competition. The semi-finalists include Adrienne Butikofer (Toronto), Eugenia Leavitt from Eugenia Designs (Montreal), Krista OzolinsLara Presber (Calgary), Ashley Rowe of miss rowe (Toronto) and Oriol Swaan for Gino Gaudet (Saskatoon). from Plush (Toronto),

For the first time in its history 60% of the New Labels® submissions were from designers based outside of Toronto. “It’s an interesting development,” says Susan Langdon, TFI’s executive director. “We’re thrilled that there is so much national interest in TFI and our annual design competition.”

Over the next four months, the six-pack will compete for a chance to strut their stuff on the New Labels® catwalk taking place April 24, 2008 during opening night of the ELLE Canada gala benefit in support of the Toronto Fashion Incubator. Only the runway finalists will have a chance to win a prize package valued at $25,000 from ELLE Canada and be named Canada’s next New Label.

VIP and general admission tickets to the ELLE Canada gala benefit taking place at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto go on sale in early January 2008 at www.ellecanada.com.