Cynthia Cheng
Christa Jean is the creator and brainchild of Petite Fashionista, a blog that offers tips for petite women all over the world since the fall of 2006. At 5′2″, Christa started her site because she felt that there was a lack of ready-to-wear clothes made for petite women. Her site has had a strong [...]

Cynthia Cheng

Juliana Corona-Mclean’s fashion line, Benedicto made its runway debut on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at the Proof Bar and Sky Lounge. The event, which featured clothing for women, men as well as girls’ was very well attended. It was great to see a change from fashion shows seen at Fashion Weeks around [...]

Cynthia Cheng
The predominantly organic True Restaurant opened at 69 Yorkville last week (former home of the Sequel Lounge). With a menu of mostly locally-grown foods, True is also very true to modern, twenty-first century tastes, with its decor being very minimalist. The furniture is mostly white (swivel chairs inside, regular white chairs on the [...]

Robert Haynes-Peterson
There are times I wake up feeling if my skin is oozing wine, or whichever spirit I inhaled at the previous night’s soiree. Now luxe spas in vine regions around the world are actually offering wine and vine-based treatments, providing a healthier definition of “booze soaked.” As more and more destinations-from Walla Walla, Washington [...]

Barbara Rinehart
What Exactly is Network Marketing/Direct Selling?
Network marketing, sometimes referred to as direct selling, is simply a distribution system whereby goods or services from a manufacturer are sold to the end user via a network of independent distributors, or consultants. It is an extremely effective system that cuts out the “middleman” found in most [...]

The Society Toronto held its first Supper Salon event at Marben Restaurant on May 5, 2008. The event featured artist Ilene Sova, a Toronto-area portrait artist who painted the portrait of one of the guests at the dinner. In addition to the dinner, guests had the opportunity to listen to Ilene’s short lecture [...]

Amy Chow
A new culinary trend has taken the western world by storm, and Toronto has recently jumped on the molecular cuisine bandwagon with the recent addition of Colborne Lane headed by Claudio Aprile who has delighted food critics across Toronto with avant-garde culinary feats that belong more in a science lab than a kitchen. His [...]

Niya Bajaj
The second incredible stop on our journey is London, England. Like all maximum cities, it shares certain characteristics with Mumbai, but on the whole is decidedly more organized, less frenetic, and a great deal more “proper”. If you are the sort who would be lost without your daytimer and a clearly laid out schedule, [...]

Cynthia Cheng

Former model and jeans designer, Paige Adams-Geller (left) of Paige Premium Denim was at Holt Refrew, Bloor Street in Toronto on May 10, 2008 signing her book, Your Perfect Fit, and giving advice to shoppers buying her jeans.  I (right) had the wonderful opportunity to meet her in person as well as purchase a pair of [...]