Posted 1 week 4 hours ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
Can you feel the love? If it feels funky and like it might have great style, it’s probably coming from Espy in Inglewood. This weekend, the boutique is hosting #spreadloveyyc, which includes four days of fashion, art and parties. The guests of honour, other than all of us of course, are Pepe and Eva, the street art duo born in Amsterdam and based in New York City. The pair is in town creating art in Espy...
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Posted 1 week 5 days ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | Object of Design
The conical shape might conjure memories of weaving around pylons to pass your drivers test, but the Rudebaker Vase by Calgary-based Palette Industries is a more grown-up traffic cone. The pylon has been reinterpreted as a vase made from kiln-fired stoneware and coated in a semi-gloss white, black or lavender glaze. Instead of the pylon signalling barriers, warning us of road construction or forcing us into annoying detours, the iconic shape can be propped up on your side table and filled with fresh cut...
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Posted 1 week 5 days ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
We knew Target was about to sweep into Canada's Zellers stores, but now we know when and where in Calgary they are putting their first bullseye.
The first Calgary location will open in the spring of 2013 in Signal Hill. Five more Calgary stores including Chinook Centre, Forest Lawn Shopping Centre, Market Mall, the Shoppes at Shawnessy and Sunridge, are expected to roll out soon after, though no dates for their opening have been set.
The Zellers stores, which are a little shabby from decades of use, are being...
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Posted 2 weeks 2 days ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
We come together to recognise two dearly departing shopping destinations as they get ready to close their doors. One sold us great clothing, the other furnished our homes and offices. And, while both have similar clothing-optional names, the only thing that ties them together is their imminent closures.
Naked is the women's closing store tucked into the bottom of the condos near the corner of 17th Avenue and 14th Street S.W.. Calgarian Medeana Moussa opened the boutique in 2003 and has quietly been selling women's fashion since. The styles range from casual to cocktail...
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Posted 9 weeks 1 day ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
John Fluevog's shoe store has been selling its sculptural footwear for nearly six months in its first Calgary location along Stephen Avenue, but this month the shoe designer came to Calgary to officially launch the store's creative community spaces in the floors above and below the retail space. Fans of Fluevog know the brand is just as much about the people as it is about the shoes.
Upstairs at the Calgary store is the first Flueseum showcasing a...
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Posted 10 weeks 5 hours ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
Just in time for the holidays, Birks has opened its newly renovated 5,600-square-foot jewel box of a store downtown in the Core. Gone is the dark wood awning. Instead a glass storefront that leads into a modern store. Blue glass feature walls with the give a hint of Birks classic style and curved pathways guide shoppers to cases filled with diamonds, pearls and gold crafted into jewellery by designers including...
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Posted 11 weeks 6 days ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Food Files
Sand, surf and chef Paul Rogalski: three things that the Cayman Islands have going for them this January. Rogalski has been invited to take his fine dining chef skills — the standards of which he has perfected at Rouge Restaurant — to the Cayman Cookout, January 12 to 15.
In the culinary world, being an invited chef to the Cayman Cookout is a big deal. Chef Eric Ripert who is known for his three-Michelin-star seafood...
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Posted 13 weeks 1 hour ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
Old world charm and underground parking are the makings of a winter friendly spa.
Built from the ground up, Esthetica Salon & Spa’s new Acadia Drive location will calm you down and primp you up. Wood plank tables, stone fireplaces and ornate chandeliers set the tone in the front lounge. A living wall provides a vertical garden of English ivy, peace lilies and spider plants to cleanse the air and create a fresh decor feature.
Down hallways and behind closed doors, the spas treatment rooms have all the equipment...
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Posted 13 weeks 2 days ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
He's the third generation owner of his family's company Canada Goose and in his ten years as CEO Dani Reiss has grown the company 2,500 percent. He got Canada to love his company by going to Europe.
“We were much bigger in Europe first,” says Reiss. “In Canada no one was interested. Retailers didn’t want to listen. But Europeans got it immediately. They have a love affair with Canada. There is a mythology that is romanticized.” Canada Goose opened its European headquarters in...
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Posted 13 weeks 5 days ago | By Jaelyn Molyneux | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog
The little house just off Edmonton Trail tucked into Bridgeland has been home to International Gemological Laboratories for years with gemologists and appraisers sizing up the quality of diamonds, gemstones and jewellery. They know their jewellery. They also know this city is full of talented goldsmiths creating wearable works of art in their homes or studios tucked away from public viewing.
To bring the jewellers together with customers looking for well-crafted custom items IGL cleared out one room in their house and...
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