Way back in the mid 90s when The Gap was king they ran a TV ad that re-ignited the Swing Dance craze. (And since I met my husband on the swing dance floor I have a special spot for this ad in my heart). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCCC2Sj3XzA] This week the first stand alone Joe Fresh store in Canada opened in [...]
The 1980s started out as they would follow... with tight jeans. Brooke and Calvin got us started and we spent the next decade lying on our beds sucking everything in to do up our jeans. They were tight and they were skinny - most had to have zippers at the bottom so you could get [...]
I had an interesting discussion with Poppy Buxom at Blogher about pointy toed shoes. For her they are an item that she did the "first" time so she can't do them again. Now in reality I doubt Poppy wore these the very first time they were in fashion which appears to be back in France in [...]
Back in the 80s my Mom used to wear a lot of Liz Claiborne. She was a groundbreaking designer in the day, with her bright matching separates for professional women. Liz's favourite colour was red and her collections showed her love of colour. She was the first woman to head a company to join the Fortune [...]
At the Nicole Bridger fashion show last week at the Opus, there was this young woman dressed in a fuchsia/purple spaghetti strap romper. The colour was fantastic on her (she had long dark Amy Winehouse hair and colouring). She paired it with a pair of simple pumps. I might have gone with a funkier shoe, but otherwise [...]
A few weeks ago I did a Fashion Flashback Friday to Pretty in Pink. As I wrote the post I also found out that Molly Ringwald just published "Getting the Pretty Back". I was excited to hear that this star of my teenage years, who was now also 42, had written a book about "Friendship, Family, [...]
Flashback to the 1980s and the early days of Much Music and a young 23-year-old VJ named Erica Ehm. Without a script, no training and no internet Erica launched onto the Canadian scene - one of the first women in her field. She got to interview rock stars. She got to wear cool, trendy clothes. She refused, [...]
Think back to 1998. What were you doing? What were you wearing? 1998 began with the premier of SpiceWorld..... the end of the end of that girl power foursome. Sharon Stone wore a gap t-shirt with a ball gown to the Oscars (Shakespeare in Love won) I turned 30 - bought a little black dress, drank [...]
With exception of a certain pink dress I really liked the retro and vintage clothes that Molly Ringwald wore in Pretty in Pink. But truth be told Annie Potts and Duckie were my true fashion heroes of this movie. Thankfully, other than trying a duck tale for a while, I never tried to work Duckie's look. Jon Cryer was on my [...]
I was only alive for two years in the sixties, so I figure I can wear just about anything 60s that comes back into fashion. Hey, if I worked a trend as a toddler then I think I deserve a chance to rock it again as an adult. Although I highly doubt my Mom was [...]
