Articles by Catherine Tse.

LifeStyle Features

Single in the city? No sweat

By Alan Woo, Am Johal, Catherine Tse, and Shana Mayara
Is your love life as slow to heat up as the temperature this spring? Four Straight (and not-so-straight) writers set out to uncover other ways Vancouver singles can improve their chances of finding a date.
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Style Features

Watch out! It's the invasion of the body shapers

By Catherine Tse
Despite all the celebrity testimonials from stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Oprah, and Jessica Alba, many people are still confused about what body shapers look like and what they can do for the average person.
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Georgia Straight Living

Tomboys in the 'hood

By Catherine Tse
Since it’s more cool to be Miss Fix-it than Miss Helpless, one company is designing tools by and for women, including circular saws, garden implements, and mini air compressors. So get hammering, girls.
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Georgia Straight Living

Accessorize, darling

By Catherine Tse
Toss some pillows, get pretty planters, and transform your decor in an instant. Catherine Tse shows you how.
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Georgia Straight Style

Want something sexy and simple? Try the shirtdress

By Catherine Tse
One of the perks of being a woman is getting dressed in 10 seconds flat. Enter the shirtdress. Every woman has at least one dress in her wardrobe she can count on in a pinch, when running late or in a frantic mid-fashion crisis. Rejoice—this season, it seems every design house has their own version of the shirtdress. If there was ever a perfect time to replenish that supply of wardrobe staples, it’s now.
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Georgia Straight Style

Radical ruffles make frothy layers go lushly modern

By Catherine Tse
Ruffles have been a cyclical fashion embellishment since the days of Queen Victoria, and the runway shows for spring and summer ’08 were once again spilling over with billowy layers of them on everything from gowns to T-shirts to jackets. These aren’t the stiff, scratchy, froufrou ruffles you had when you were six years old. Today’s ruffles are impossibly chic and elegantly dramatic.
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Georgia Straight Living

Ready for a design pro? Ask questions first

By Catherine Tse
if you’re wondering if the living room would look better with those support pillars knocked out, or if adding electrical components is as easy as matching up the coloured wires, you might want to bring in a professional interior designer.
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Georgia Straight Living

Chandeliers: the modern light fantastic

By Catherine Tse
Today’s chandeliers simply drip with style.
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Georgia Straight Living

Customize to suit yourself

By Catherine Tse
Whether it's a floating-wall system from Germany or an ergonomically brilliant system for organization from Japan or some ethnic influences from Africa, custom-made pieces can incorporate almost any specification you demand.
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Georgia Straight Living

Go to bed in style

By Catherine Tse
Most people assume higher thread counts mean superior bedding, but that’s not always the case.
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Style Watch

Goodbye silver, hello gold

By Catherine Tse
There was gold before bling. There will be gold after, as these B.C. designers demonstrate with their varied approaches
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Style Watch

Three Stones label pegs cozy layers with unique details

By Catherine Tse
The increasingly popular coats and jackets are the most recent addition to the Three Stones repertoire and have been top sellers, residing in a niche market that caters to the younger buyer who’s looking for a high-quality, warm garment with unique details, but is still affordable. Based on fleece, the designs are anything but typical. Jackets feature design elements such as blazer lapels, a duffle front (complete with wooden toggles) or faux fur lining. These coats, made with a heavier bonded fleece, are more structured and have a quilted lining for extra warmth. They also feature unique elements such as a funnel neck, an asymmetrical front closure, or a stylish belt
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Georgia Straight Style

Vancouver Undercover

By Catherine Tse
You don't have to go to Paris to find sexy, sophisticated undies.
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Georgia Straight Style

Coat of Charms

By Catherine Tse
Slip into imaginative takes on the classic trench this fall or button up a smashing princess style.
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MindBodySoul

Sweat the small stuff

By Catherine Tse
Far infrared transforms saunas into no-steam therapy
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Travel

Seattle's catacombs tunnel into a fiery past

By Catherine Tse
No matter how familiar you are with the streets of Seattle, you might not know what lies beneath them.
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Georgia Straight Style

Harajuku here and now

By Catherine Tse
The fall 2006 fashion shows in Milan and Paris have just closed camp, but to get a glimpse of what's already in store for 2007, think farther afield. Like Asia. The hottest, hippest styles are coming from the shores of Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong.
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Georgia Straight Living

Decorating to sell

By Catherine Tse
When Martin MacLachlan was preparing to sell his West End condo last November, his real-estate agent suggested that with a fresh coat of paint, his two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 950-square-foot home could possibly earn him $350,000-but that he could probably get even more if he had his condo professionally staged.
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Travel

Berlin diners journey into tasty heart of darkness

By Catherine Tse
At the pitch-black Dunkelrestaurant everyone's on a blind date-literally
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Travel

The Noble Icelandic Tradition of Puffin-Hurling

By Catherine Tse
Famed for its spectacular panoramas of bizarre lava landscapes, blazing shows of northern lights, and magnificent, explosive geysers, Iceland is increasingly becoming a hot spot for worldly wanderlusters. But I didn't go to see the volcanoes or geothermal spas. I went to see the night, and to see what the night would bring. I went in search of pufflings.
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