I am rapidly becoming sick and tired of mysterious missives! First, it is a secret admirer. Then, it was the Fashion Mafia. Now it is Anonymous again. Or I guess Anonymous was first. Oh, I am so confused!
I thought I laid the entire Anonymous enigma to rest by letting Fashion Week events play out as […]

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Oh, the life of a fashion journalist! So many things to do in one night. I had to choose between seeing Patti Labelle and Macy Gray sing at the Holt Renfrew holiday window unveiling and the Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection.
Thank goodness the Fashion Mafia rescued me from any conundrum with the provision of a grey […]

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This note arrived, along with an elegant platinum chain and ruby-encrusted bullet charms.
“Happiness is a warm gun, Lucinda. You know you are meant to put the world’s fashion victims out of their misery. Join us…”
Muffin top is truly a heinous crime against humanity, but can I really advocate corporal punishment for an incorrectly proportioned pant?
If […]

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Every social column pointed a finger at me for not wearing a Canadian designer at Fashion sCares. It is my trademark to wear Canadian, but I was tempted by Dior. Who would not be swayed?
I spent the remainder of my weekend reviewing the Fashion Mafia Commandments, pondering their implications.
5.     Remember the Fashion Weeks and […]

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At an event last week, I was confronted with my own mortality. I entered the Jamieson’s Vitamin 360 launch and was surrounded by Baby-Boomer-Zoomers and their new Bible, Zoomer magazine, edited by the sparkling Suzanne Boyd.
With the elegant and beautiful Dayle Haddon hosting the evening and with talk of now being “A Mature Moment”, I […]

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After my salon appointment to prepare for the Fashion Cares gala, a package was delivered to my home: a couture Christian Dior gown, courtesy of the Fashion Mafia.  It was from Spring 2006, the same season that Valerie Steele and I discussed over a month ago, and was a perfect gothic gown for a Hallowe’en […]

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Bernie asked me to attend his annual Haute Hallowe’en Ball, which, of course, I had to attend. People would have talked if I was not there. He asked about the Fashion Mafia and I did not want to put him in danger of fashion exile, so I had to lie. I have never lied to […]

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The third Fashion Mafia Commandment is: Do not have any other gods before us and all Parisian fashion houses established before 1945.
Hmmm….if the ultra-chic woman I met in Las Vegas is any indication of the entire Fashion Mafia Family, I already worship her style. And I have always considered established Parisian houses as the only […]

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The lovely and always sophisticated Mary Symons invited me to tonight’s launch of the Jamieson Vitamins 360 Pure line of health products.
At first, I wondered why I would be invited to an event geared towards people of a certain age, as demonstrated by the issues of Zoomer magazine scattered on tables, between sardine samplers.
Then when […]

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A new package arrived today: a book. The rules. The Fashion Mafia Commandments.
Rule Number One: We are your Fashion Gods, who brought you out of the land of ready-to-wear, out of the mall.
That sounds reasonable to me, though I brought myself out of the mall. Maybe they are mixing me up with someone else.

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