Hiatus is Over and Happy Canada Day!

First, I'd like to greatly apologize to my loyal followers for my long hiatus. To explain things in a long story short form, basically everyone goes through life changes, and thankfully on my end it was good. However, that being said, it did and still does require a lot of my time to be extremely focused, which is why I decided to give that my one hundred and ten percent for the last few months. Now, I'm happy to be back and doing what I do, and I am ever so thankful for those who were on my case about updating the blog!

Secondly, I'd like to dedicate my return blog, only appropriately, to the nation that has welcomed me and adopted me ever so graciously; Canada. I have been in this wonderful country for five years now and I have never felt more at home anywhere else in the world than here. Despite recent events of mayhem that took place in my city of Toronto, I still think living in Canada is the best place in the world to be. Yes, people do apologize for everything here. Yes, people are a little confused with their national identity. Yes, people do love their beer and their hockey. Yes, people are extremely nice. And yes, people do say Eh! This is why Canada is the greatest place to be.

I therefore dedicate this post to my favourite Canadian designers. For those who say fashion and style do not exist in this nation, you obviously haven't looked around. They are everywhere. These are just some of them.

Sunny Fong





Greta Constantine





DSquared2





Evan Biddell





Happy Canada Day everyone!

Dsquared2 at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

It is officially 6 days from today that the entire world will be watching and cheering for their favorite athletes at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. And while I am looking forward to doing that, I'm more ecstatic to see what brothers Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared2 have in store for us.



The news came out earlier last year when it was announced that the brothers would be in charge of designing the costumes for the Canadian talent for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Olympics. It seems only appropriate that the Toronto born brothers were chosen to do so. As recipients of a star at Canada's Walk of Fame and one of Canada's most celebrated home grown designers, they are the right fit for the job.

The designs are currently kept hush hush, so we'll just have to wait and see on February 12. Will you be watching?

Here are some of my favorites from Dean and Dan's Canada-inspired line for their Spring 2010 Ready to Wear collection:
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Until next time, good night and good reading!