To kick off Toronto Fashion Week, activist and founder of the Responsible Trust for Models Elizabeth Peyton Jones spoke about her experience in the industry and desire to create safer work environments, especially for children and teens.
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To kick off Toronto Fashion Week, activist and founder of the Responsible Trust for Models Elizabeth Peyton Jones spoke about her experience in the industry and desire to create safer work environments, especially for children and teens.
I had the chance to sit down with Brandi Leifso, the cool and fearless leader of her cosmetics brand Evelyn Iona and company Evio Beauty Ltd.
The runway isn't only reserved for models. That's what a new campaign run by Toronto-based company Knixwear is trying to prove.
This morning, I joined eager Torontonians who flooded to the Royal Ontario Museum to take a look at vintage dresses by the famed designer Christian Dior.
An exhibit dedicated to film director Guillermo Del Toro opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario, called At Home with Monsters.
This month, I got to meet Andrew Forde, a Toronto-based violinist who has been working on a new project inspired by Glenn Gould. (In case you didn't know, Gould is one of the most well-known Canadian pianists, but as Forde pointed out, was extremely eccentric.) I sat down with Forde at Revolution Recording in Leslieville while he worked on a track with rapper Shad. I wrote about it for Metro Toronto, but Forde had more to say about Gould's and his own philosophies on music, performing, his next steps, and his partnership with Roots Canada.
I got to talk to Lido right after her Polaris Music Prize win for best Canadian album, when she was awarded $50,000 for La Papessa.
Ellen Wong discusses how her parents disapproved of her acting career at first, as well as being continuously asked to play the "bubbly sidekick" and how she broke out of that stereotype with her role in GLOW, a new Netflix series about women's wrestling.
The ocean is cool. It's home to sharks, which horrify me, but also to dolphins and whales!
It started off in an innocent way. I had recently decided to start freelancing full-time after a steady newsroom job and I needed an outlet for my "creativity" (aka boredom) between assignments and interviews.
As you all may know now, the Fyre Festival was really just like a shitty version of a canoe trip with shark-infested waters and sweaty cheese sandwiches instead of *gourmet options* and *glamping tents*