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Doll Me Up fashion show keeps it fun and flirty

By Shadi Elien
Friday night was marked by great fashion at the Roundhouse Community Centre. The marketing graduates of the John Casablancas Institute presented Doll Me Up, a fashion show showcasing designs from local boutiques around town, along with a stand-out first-time exhibition of the class’s own five student designers.
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Saving on summer's hot looks

By Angela Murrills
The original plan was to tell you how to assemble a complete summer wardrobe for around $100. What kind of drugs was I on? The only places you can do that are thrift stores, H & M (and even there you'd whip through the budget fairly quickly), and the Real Canadian Superstore.
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Short shorts? Get a leg up on what’s chic now

By JJ Lee
Judging by what’s hanging from retailer racks and the derrières of gamines, hottish pants and short shorts will hold sway once again on the beach and on the streets this season.
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Tips and tricks to find the fashionable you in Vancouver

By Angela Murrills
When I first started writing this column, Vancouver fashion design hardly existed and, when it did, few supported it. Armani or Donna Karan, fine, but a skirt by a local unknown? The Block and Dream were about the only stores that pushed local labels. And now look at us. Lower Main Street bursting with homegrown boutiques, the fabulous indie fashion at Portobello West market, stunning and marketable looks coming out of the design schools—Vancouver definitely isn’t the style backwater it used to be.
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Swimsuit designs for real women and supermodels

By Angela Murrills
Sea Queen fills a gap in a world where most designs are geared to the young and coltlike, and according to Monika Schnarre, what designer jeans have done for the butt, their swimwear has done for the bustline.
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Sexy dresses take it to the maxi this summer

By Angela Murrills
For the first time in many seasons, ankle-length dresses will return to Vancouver sidewalks, with a wide range of styles to tickle your ankles.
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Bombshell drops girlie bargains with a bang

By Angela Murrills
Like many new moms, Elizabeth Yap-Chung wasn’t jumping up and down with glee at the thought of returning to the 9 to 5 world after her maternity leave ended. But where most women heave a sigh, organize childcare, and resign themselves to the daily commute, Yap-Chung started to think about a way around it. “I wanted to stay home,” she says in a phone interview. “I’d had a business of my own before, and I had a taste for that.
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New talent, hip pros hit Fashion Week runways

By Angela Murrills
See the Gallery With Main Street and Gastown bursting with boutiques brimming with B.C. design, Portobello West a monthly must, and blogs and Web sites landing news of the hotness within the city limits in your inbox every day, it’s easy to forget that local fashion only became a major force fairly recently. A biannual happening since 2004, Vancouver Fashion Week was a once-a-year thang when show producer Jamal Abdourahman first launched the event in 2001. “He wanted to create a forum for B.C.
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At TRENDS, these teens buck the fashion herd

By Angela Murrills
A fashion and image project for teens encourages them to evolve their own style rather than follow the fashion herd of scuzzy celebs and supermodels.
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Dress for work-travel success

By Angela Murrills
Know your itinerary and dress right for business travel; at Impact: An Event for Change’s fundraiser, low-income women get job-ready style help too.
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Green Is the New Black Wearable Art Fashion Show

By Angela Murrills
A sumptuous cape pieced together from silk scarves coloured with natural dyes from plants grown in the artist’s own garden. Discarded duds cut into strips, rewoven, and stitched into a jacket. Good idea or what? These are just a couple of the items you’ll see at the Green Is the New Black Wearable Art Fashion Show, on March 30 at 2:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Museum (1100 Chestnut Street). Presented by the Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts, the show features close to 50 textile talents and students.
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B.C. catwalks span the globe

By Angela Murrills
Thanks to the Internet, relatives in Croatia and a friend in Australia had front-row seats as RozeMerie Cuevas sent her signature curvy dresses and suits down the runway.
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In flats and high heels, spring struts in playfully in Vancouver

By Angela Murrills
The big decision this spring is which trend to go with. You’ll see plenty of options out there spanning the whole spectrum of metalness.
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Spring makeup turns sexy shades of green

By Angela Murrills
The lipstick of the moment is both botanical and tantalizingly pretty, but the eyes have it with dreamy emeralds, olives, and limes.
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Find goodies fit for a Vancouver punk princess at Spark

By Angela Murrills
Every wardrobe needs a cache of shape-shifting goodies, the small, evil additions that successfully take the piss out of bland or serious clothing. When you pair fishnet hose with even the most corporately classic suit, you alter its personality for the better; or you could tie a leopard-print scarf over a trench coat.
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Local designers bloom with floral prints

By Angela Murrills
If even your mom didn’t send you a Valentine and the forecast threatens rain for the weekend, what better way to raise your spirits than with a wearable bunch of flowers.
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South African fashion comes to Main Street courtesy of LK Collections

By Angela Murrills
While Milan, Paris, and London tend to rock the fashion headlines, cities all over the world are hotbeds of style. In Vancouver, events like Spend on Trend (see Chic of the Week) and Portobello West provide a stage for emerging designers. Sydney, Australia, has its weekly Paddington Market. And, across South Africa, there’s a movement called “Local is lekker”—lekker being local Afrikaans slang for “good”, explains Larainne Kaplan. “Dress local, buy local, manufacture local.”
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For savvy impoveristas, consignment stores rule

By Angela Murrills
Consignment stores are catnip to an impoverista (a clotheshorse who’s temporarily—or permanently—broke). First, you have the instant joy of spotting your favourite terra cotta or olive green, even if fashion currently ignores it. Next, although you may see their labels, this isn’t Gap or Club Monaco. It’s not racks and racks of the same thing; everything is one-of-a-kind.
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Your wardrobe may be ripe for a January rejig

By Angela Murrills
Somewhere amid all the Christmas chaos, it occurred to me that the same national newspaper that recently lauded electric blue as the cool new colour had also included it in its list of picks and pans from the past year—and it wasn’t a pick. Maybe that was the tipping point in making me think, "Screw it, 2008 is the year I wear exactly what I like, and if it happens to be on trend, so be it." Over the holidays, I happened upon a U.K. blog by someone who had resolved not to buy clothes all last year.
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Sale into January with sweet deals on duds

By Angela Murrills
Try buying a cozy sweater in March or tank tops in August–in your dreams. The fashion world and the real world have never marched in lock step, but the fact that they're increasingly out of sync does mean sales offer deals you can wear right away. If you braved the Boxing Day crowds, give yourself a plastic medal. If not, relax. Early birds may have creamed off some of the deals, but there's still lots to love out there.
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Hit Chinatown west for givable goodies

By Angela Murrills
From singing Elvises to glass-nibbed pens, there are finds galore in the small boutiques between Gastown and Chinatown
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Useful gifts for the green-minded

By Angela Murrills
Moderation and mindfulness put these suggestions in the eco-friendly family
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From jewels to panties: luxe gifts without the price tag

By Angela Murrills
Extravagance can come from thrift stores, in large quantities, or wrapped in a prestige box
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Winter's must-have coats

By Angela Murrills
Does it fit? That's hardly the decider. Sleeve length, hem length, single-/double-breasted, V-neck/button-to-the-hilt - here's how to choose this year's topper
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Cozy knickers as central heating

By Angela Murrills
Layer, lady, layer with silk-knit lingerie, vests and gloves, and knee socks over tights
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