Wow! Karine Marin from Sensation Mode sent me an invitation to show at Montreal Fashion Week. How totally cool! It’s March 2 to 5. Toronto collections will be March 16 to 21. Should I do both? If I’m making the clothes, why not? It could be a great way to get more customers. I think [...]

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My rad friend, fellow designer and Deadly Nightshades Bike Gang member Irene Stickney is organizing these uber-cool fashion drawing nights at the store where she works, 69 Vintage. Well, actually, it’s at 69 Vintage Buy the Pound, but whatever. The models dress up in crazy-fun clothes and we draw them. It’s great practice and a [...]

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It was a while since I heard from my contractor, so I popped in to check on production and I couldn’t believe what I saw: my signature bubble skirt done in 5 different fabrics and 10 different colours that I didn’t choose. Not only that, but there were like 500 of them!
I freaked out and [...]

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After hearing about the million sample sales, I decided I definitely should have one. But when? On a weekend? Not next weekend; that’s Buy Nothing Weekend. On a weeknight? I’ve got so many bands to see this week that I can’t do it. Maybe next Thursday. Yeah. I could totally have a sample sale and [...]

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I got an e-mail about a trunk show happening way out in the East End, so I thought I should check it out since I never leave the West End. It was pretty cool: the people at The Fashion District storeorganized this sale, and it was pretty neat since a bunch of designers took over [...]

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So I was out at Sweaty Betty’s tonight with Elmo and Sandee and there was this crazy drunk chick named Vivian who was a friend of some friend of Sandee’s. Anyway, she totally started hitting on Elmo! Okay, so whatever he and I have going on isn’t really defined or anything, but how could she [...]

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I was walking down Queen Street, looking for inspiration like I always do, when I ran into PR maven Sonja Andic with Vanja Vasic, Executive Director of Alternative Fashion Week. They were coming from an art exhibit and were looking for somewhere to go when we saw a party happening at MODA, so we stopped [...]

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Today I got an e-mail about a new contest: VIA Rail is asking Canadian designers to re-style the VIA Rail uniform for station and train employees. The winner gets $10,000 in train travel credits. I don’t know if I could spend that much on train travel. Maybe I could take all my fashion friends on [...]

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I’ve got like a million e-mails about a ton of sample sales this week. It’s crazy! I’ve never heard of so many sales. Is it because of this recession thing? If everything goes on sale because of a recession, then I’m all for it! I guess I have a ton of old samples hanging around [...]

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Well, apparently you have to apply months and months in advance if you want to sell anything at a holiday sale. Who knew? Maybe I’ll have to set up a booth on Queen Street again on a day that isn’t too rainy or windy. But then again, those are the days that people need armbands. [...]

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