Articles of Section 'Style Features'.

Style Features

Making heady scents of a world of perfume with Chandler Burr

By David Chau
Women searching out summer-reading material will want to sniff out Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Henry Holt, 2008). In it, the New York Times’s perfume critic illuminates the invisible facets of the multibillion-dollar fragrance industry, and compares the conception and execution of two perfumes, Un Jardin sur le Nil by Hermès and Sex in the City star Sarah Jessica Parker’s Lovely by Coty.
Read more
Style Features

Geox billionaire aims to stamp out smelly feet

By Charlie Smith
Mario Moretti Polegato is an unlikely fashion entrepreneur. As a young man working in his family’s Italian wine business, he never expected to head a global shoe and clothing empire that sells products in 68 countries. He didn’t anticipate that his efforts to patent his products in China would be studied around the world. Or that his fame would bring invitations to speak at English-speaking universities, including Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus.
Read more
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.
comments 1 comment   ·  Read more
Style Features

Gwaii Urban Wear gets authentic Haida cool

By Pieta Woolley
Suzette Soloman has launched a line of funky, First Nations–inspired casual clothing for the fall 2008 season that push traditional designs forward to keep them relevant.
Read more
Style Features

Modern gifts for bridesmaids and groomsmen

By Angela Murrills
Bets are on that hundreds of brides-to-be will swoon over Keira Knightley’s long, draped, emerald-green dress in Atonement. And then, as they regain consciousness, they’ll think, “Hmm, now wouldn’t that look good on my A team?” (A meaning attendant).
Read more
Style Features

Bold brides see red when it comes to wedding dresses

By Pieta Woolley
Modern girls do not aspire to virginity and purity above all else, according to Ariel Meadow Stallings, the author of Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides (Seal Press, $16.95). So why do so many wear a white wedding dress, which symbolizes those things?
comments 1 comment   ·  Read more
Style Features

Softer hair turns stiff wedding dos to don'ts

By Pieta Woolley
Wedding hair has a problem: it must last through an entire wedding day without falling apart. In the past, this was achieved by stylists wielding lots and lots of hair spray and creating tight, close-to-the-skull updos with crispy curls on the perimeter to “soften” the look. Ugh. No longer, thank goodness. In fact, wedding hair has gone to the opposite extreme of the heady southern-belle days of the 1980s.
Read more
Style Features

Local brides blaze their own style down the aisle

By Pieta Woolley
Jo-Anne Stayner was planning to get married at Jericho Beach in August 2007, a fact she told the saleswomen at a wedding-dress store in Toronto. The 31-year-old had traveled there on business, and wanted to check out the collections in Canada’s largest city.
Read more
Style Features

Wedding watch '08

By Pieta Woolley
Galib and Cinnamon, then, are pioneers for Vancouver’s future weddings: different traditions, different religions, different style, and different communities.
Read more
Style Features

Unique wedding cake toppers

By Pieta Woolley
So, you and your bride- or groom-to-be just don’t look like the stereotypical couple on top of the wedding cake? And, hey, you’d really like a cake topper that does kinda look like the two of you? No problem.
Read more
Style Features

Bridal lingerie designs at the 29th annual Wedding Fair

Read more
Style Features

Politicians bring style to corridors of power

By Charlie Smith
Vancouver park-board commissioner Spencer Herbert recalled with a laugh how he wanted to dress on election night in 2005. Herbert, who enjoys fashion, donned an outfit that he described as "half-Mountie, half-bullfighter". He told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview that his partner, activist Romi Chandra, told him he couldn't go out looking like that. Herbert, who was elected later that night on the COPE slate, decided to tone it down.
Read more
Style Features

Skin/hair repair for the cold months

By Angela Murrills
Any ex-Easterner will tell you that when you move to the Wet Coast, bad hair days are the norm. Luckily, there are steps you can take to keep your complexion and locks looking dewy through the winter
Read more
Style Features

Cocoon dresses: from McCartney to Moschino, they're voluminous and cozy

Prepare yourself for chilly winter days and nights by snuggling up in this season’s coziest design: the cocoon dress. Also known as a shift, trapeze, or smock, this silhouette has been around for decades. Notoriously difficult to pull off, the latest incarnations of this voluminous garment offer considerably more style than a sack, and are forgiving for all figures. Recently seen on the runways of designers like Stella McCartney, Moschino, and Chloé, the cocoon dress is a favourite of fashionistas around the world, who appreciate its clean, simple lines
Read more
Style Features

3 emergency rooms for your damaged shoes and boots

By Jennifer Chen
At the Quick Cobbler, the average pair of shoes costs from $25 to $35 to repair, depending on the work that needs to be done, and it can take anywhere from three minutes to three days. Owner Ronald Nijdam’s never met a shoe he couldn’t fix—but he says if the pair of shoes cost less than $25 and came from a discount store, it may not be worth it. "Unless you really like it, I would say it’s time to buy new shoes," Nijdam advises. But a good pair, he says, can last 20 years, and they’re well worth the investment
Read more
Style Features

Industrial chic is in the bag

By Pieta Woolley
For Randi Obenauer’s tough designs, it’s hot-rod ceiling foam and reclaimed leather.
Read more
Style Features

BC Fashion Week ready to strut its stuff

By Rebecca Tay
Last spring, while top models strutted down runways in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, Vancouver's catwalks sat empty–not because our city isn't a fashion destination, but because for the first time in four seasons, BC Fashion Week failed to materialize.
Read more
Style Features

Hollywood cozies up to Imaginary Friend

By Jennifer Chen
Success is all in the details. That's how Megan Dengerink and Nadine Spidla begin most pieces: a tuck here, a gather there. And then the rest follows.
Read more
Style Features | Style Watch

Model turned designer knows bikini-fitting inside out

By Rebecca Tay
Given her birth name, it seemed only natural that Sèa Adams would wind up with a career related to the ocean. That career saw her travelling the world for 17 years as a lingerie and swimwear model. More recently, Adams (who's changed her first name to Cea) has become a designer who counts Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie among her fans. The former Vancouverite says the progression felt natural.
Read more
Style Features | Style Watch

From street to ballroom, Elika’s designer eyes Europe

By Pieta Woolley
Tree-planting brought her to B.C., but the ballrooms of Europe are about to lure her away. If you want to buy a Hrissa Soumpassis–made item direct from the designer's hands, time is running out. After just nine months working full-time out of a taller-than-it-is-wide studio near Chinatown, Soumpassis flies away, possibly forever, on August 1.
Read more
Style Features

Clever innovations make for sweet success

By Sarah Rowland
The nicest thing about walking into an Open Sundaes specialty shop is that it doesn't knock you out with that bath-bomb store stench.
Read more
Style Features

PARTS by Heather launch

The event: PARTS by Heather launch on April 14 at Shop Cocoon.
Read more
Style Features | Style Watch

Pears, triangles, and rectangles thrive at Babs

By Sarah Rowland
You're in your favourite clothing store, browsing though all the racks, when a screen-printed skirt catches your eye. What's your first move? Normally you'd check the tag to see if it comes in your size, yes? Not at Babs Studio Boutique (2410 Granville Street). Instead of asking for a small, medium, or large, you ask for a pear, inverted triangle, hourglass, or a rectangle.
Read more
Style Features

From hints of pale blue to bursts of crimson, colour has many brides passing up pure white

By Carolyn Ali
Dreams of a white wedding have gone Technicolor this year. Continuing last year’s trend, colour is creeping back into bridal fashion, from a wedding gown with a subtle gold sheen to a bold crimson sash on a bridesmaid’s dress. White may be nice for some brides, but others are veering away from tradition and using their nuptials to express themselves with splashes of colour as diverse as a display of paint chips.
Read more
Style Features

Planning tips span nails to scents

By Carolyn Ali, Janet Smith, and Luisa Rino
FAIR SEASON Wedding fairs are in the air, with two coming up next month. Tiaras and Tuxes: Boutique Gala Wedding Affair bills itself as an antidote to the larger events with an intimate atmosphere, music, and refreshments. Featuring fashion shows and a bridal auction, it takes place on February 11 at the Chapel at Stanley Park (606 Chilco Street). Tickets are $30; for information, see www.savvypromotions.ca/.
Read more

12next ›last »

All Issues Containing 'Style Features'