A Woman’s Finishing Touch: Fragrances by Cheri Milaney

Vancouver-based designer, Cheri Milaney, who received a lot of press last LG Fashion Week for using “real women” opposed to models, has launched a line of four fragrances.  Called the Cheri Milaney Facets Fragrance Collection, each scent is named after gemstones (Ametista, Rubino, Perla and Topazio), and relates to the different personalities and styles we have.  Each bottle is [...]

Living at Home as an Adult

There are those who believe that anyone who is no longer in school should move out from their parents’ home and become more responsible.  Unfortunately, living away from one’s parents does not make a person more responsible.  Responsibility and being an adult comes from one’s behaviour, not because one no longer lives with his/her parents.  [...]

Lara Presber: From Architecture to Fashion

Calgary-based designer, Lara Presber has always had an interest in structure and fashion.  As a kid, she spent part of her leisure time helping her dad in the garage and the other half sewing with her mother.  The interest in structure eventually led her to architecture school sin Boston where she eventually obtained a  B. Arch.  After spending a few years in [...]

Cheri Milaney Brings out the Sparkle in Every Woman

British Columbia’s Cheri Milaney has had an interest in fashion design since she was a little girl.  At the age of six, she sketching different outfits.  When she finished high school, she studied fashion merchandising at Alberta’s Olds College, and spent some time training and then started her own line, which is celebrating its 10th [...]

Classic food. Tasteful decor. Cultured people.

Erin Easterbrook
Italian music is lightly playing in the background of a small yet intimate restaurant. Civilized conversation is being conversed. Dim lighting is being reflected in the long and narrow, oval shaped mirrors. Fresh parsley can be smelled and for a brief moment, you may forget you’re not in Italy.

Fratelli, meaning brothers in Italian, located [...]

Uniquely Handcrafted Bags from Cyprus

Dora Schabel, launched in 2001, is a line of leather bags based out of Cyprus.   Hand-crafted by trained experts, each bag not only has an organic feel, but truly a sense of individuality. 
Both the structure and the lining of each bag is made with leather, which is either treated or combined with glass, metal, beads, [...]

Jessica DeCarlo: Brooklyn Based, Internationally Inspired

Jessica DeCarlo, who started making jewellery when she was very young launched her line, Jessica DeCarlo Designs this past spring. Through her studies at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, Academia Italiana and an internship at Metallo Nobile in Florence Italy (where she was doing PR/Marketing), she developed a unique style, creating timeless-looking pieces that definitely [...]