This noble cause is shining a light on the gender imbalance in today’s moviemaking. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which returned to a full inperson experience this September after two hybrid years, has grown to become perhaps the world’s most glamorous starpowered, fan-friendly film festival in the world during its 47 years, and it …
With entrepreneurs and investors facing off, Dragons’ Den puts the real into reality television. The premise is as old as ancient Egypt or Greece: someone has an idea for a business but needs people to invest the capital to make it a reality. It has continued for thousands of years — entrepreneurs seeking people to …
She wasn’t just a constant. She was THE constant, or the ever-present ‘north star’ as one of her aides put it. Queen Elizabeth’s passing at age 96 on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland was perhaps not a shock given her advance years, but it is a blow nonetheless and the end …
The largest publicly attended film festival in the world, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), is partnering with one of the world’s most acclaimed luxury jewelers, the historical Italian brand Bvlgari, for it to become a major sponsor and official jewelry partner of TIFF. It is a marriage seemed destined by fate and stardom. Bvlgari …
This sculptural villa, created by the design brilliance of Fabio Mazzeo, overlooking the Mediterranean in Sardinia, is a creative blend of art, design and nature. Rarely has a residence so ideally fit into its natural surroundings as the villa at Cala Volpe, Sardinia, created by the famed Italian architect Fabio Mazzeo and his design team …
Argentina’s most celebrated chef, Francis Mallmann, is equally at home in the school of life as he is running some of the world’s best kitchens. On Francis Mallmann’s Instagram page appears a sentence that may best describe one of the world’s most acclaimed chefs: “Dreaming things no mortal ever dared to dream before.” In a …
A woman of considerable style and grace, Catherine Nugent has been using her good fortune, empathy and skills to raise millions of dollars as one of Canada’s leading philanthropists. The blessing of being born of privilege is really only meaningful if you do something meaningful with your good fortune. Catherine Nugent, one of Canada’s most …
The opening of W Toronto brings a tribute to the city’s rich cultural history and a playful interpretation of luxury to the hotel scene. The explosion of new luxury hotels in Toronto just got a lot louder with the July opening of W Toronto, the latest property of W Hotels Worldwide, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s …
Ritz-Carlton Toronto general manager Guillaume Benezech’s skill and style have elevated his hotel to the top tier of Toronto hotels. The world’s great hoteliers all seem to have certain traits in common: despite the thousands of balls they have to keep in the air, they each seem to exude an air of calm, grace, dignity, …
Legendary architect Frank Gehry’s homecoming masterpiece, Forma, is set to rise on Toronto’s King Street West and become an iconic statement in one of the world’s most vertical cities. With a population growth of between 70,000 and 100,000 people per year, and the geographic restraints of Lake Ontario to its south and a protected greenbelt …
