Channel your inner Mad Hatter at the National Ballet’s hat workshop

In the spirit of the National Ballet of Canada’s much anticipated upcoming production of Alices Adventures in Wonderland, the company is hosting a Mad Hatter Workshop at the Walter Carsen Centre (470 Queens Quay West) tomorrow, May 31st at 6:30 p.m. Channel your inner Mad Hatter by decorating your own hat or headpiece in the [...]

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Fashion Flash: Cindie Matusicky of Berea heads up a family of bikers with funky flair

Cindie Matusicky, 58, Berea Circulation supervisor, Fairview Park branch of the Cuyahoga County Library Allison Carey/Plain Dealer I once searched for red boots for a solid year! I did, too! And why did you want red boots? You don’t see them a lot, and I wanted a fun pair of boots that I could work [...]

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Weekend Warriors

Last-minute flights are as pleasurable as walking behind tourists in Times Square, so, this Memorial Day weekend, why not drive – and arrive – in style, with one of our fab weekenders. The American leathergoods maker Mark Cross reenters the market with a classic Duffel, while Reed Krakoff takes a more modern and streamlined approach [...]

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Timely | Jules Marquis • Art in America

Whether by filming an ode to NBC in a field or by having small-town Little Leaguers pace around a New York gallery and mutter ‘‘good game’’ to one another, Colin Snapp (left) and Daniel Turner frequently take aspects of globalized culture and consumerism and trickle them down to a rural level. The two New York-based [...]

Friday, May 20th, 2011

the big white lie that fashion perpetuates

Ive never really written solely about the big white lie here and decided it was time to let you all in on a little secret: Bright white doesnt look good on the majority of consumers, yet the most popularly used white in fashion is bright white. Why is that, you wonder?  Knowing that most people [...]

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

New New Gen

It might tickle us when Karl Lagerfeld declares that he likes computers as objects and prefers fax to email, or when Alber Elbaz says he doesnt do the internet. We might find that cute, endearing and perhaps for some, comforting. These designers and their ivory ateliers! Why should they open an email or look at [...]

Monday, May 16th, 2011