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Fashion

Scapa Fashion: Exotic Escape

Find your earthly paradise tucked away in the bold folds of Scapa Fashion’s summer 2013 collections. Awash in rich, luxurious colours and irresistibly daring patterns, the world-renowned Dutch fashion house is ready to transport your style — and your senses — to adventurous new heights www.scapafashion.com

Stone Age

1. Julianne Hough finds a Safe Haven in style with this vanilla, blackberry and raspberry-inspired Le Vian Snake Ring. www.levian.com 2. For a look as swift as Taylor’s, slip on Le Vian’s Honey Gold Ring with chocolate and vanilla diamonds. www.levian.com 3. Rubies can be a girl’s best friend too: You’ll shine in these Maltese …

William Banks-Blaney: Fabric of Time

Before his 40-hour skip across the pond to catch friend Rachel Zoe’s show at New York Fashion Week, William Banks-Blaney was dressing dozens of celebrities in vintage couture frocks at the Elle Style Awards, the BAFTA Awards and the preceding WilliamVintage Dinner, a sumptuous black-tie affair he and actress Gillian Anderson co-hosted at the St. …

Paul Hardy: Rough Luxe on the Runway

While the who’s who of the industry refer to Paul Hardy as a star of this generation’s Canadian fashion designers, the subdued, self-described recluse hardly fans the flames of his ego. “I always felt like it was a bit of a dangerous thing to buy into your own fame,” says the Calgary designer, who was …

Fotini: A Model Business

Robert Burke hasn’t forgotten the day Fotini Copeland walked into his NYC consulting firm. The former senior vice-president of fashion and PR for Bergdorf Goodman met the Greek-Canadian designer in 2010 when she sought his industry expertise on launching her eponymous label. “She was unique,” says the chairman and CEO of Robert Burke Associates, whose …

Tiny Trendsetters

With fashion designers as moms, it’s no wonder that celebrity kids such as Kingston Rossdale, Skyler Berman, Suri Cruise and Harper Beckham are seen in today’s top fashions. “It is too much fun. It is like dressing a live doll,” Rachel Zoe said of dressing her one-year-old son Skyler with husband Rodger Berman. “He has no opinion. Every minute I have to buy …

Yacht Spot

1 With two spacious cockpit layouts available, the Sessa C44 is ideal for high-seas hosting. One option features two couches designed to accommodate up to 12 guests, the second, a 2.3-metre tender garage with launch roller and winch covered by a bathing deck. With two double beds, a wood and leather-finished lounge and sizable rear …

His Essentials

With Skyfall, the latest Bond blockbuster, igniting cinema screens the world over, we lay out the essentials for wanna-be double-ohs, 1. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Give the gift of elegance with this luxe assortment of Petrossian caviars. www.saksfifthavenue.com 2. WRISTY BUSINESS Double-oh-seven’s choice of timepiece is the sleek, svelte Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Skyfall Limited …

A Guildhall Diamond

A brilliant fire of light bounces with pyrotechnic energy as a natural fancy coloured diamond captures your attention and holds it there. Infinitesimal in nature yet immeasurably symbolic, a coloured diamond’s rarity is increasingly attracting forward-thinking investors. “It’s just incredible when you look into a fancy coloured diamond and you can see how it has …

Lucian Matis: The Making of Matis

On the ground level lobby of a nondescript building in Toronto, a fastened black door creates a visible contrast to washed-out walls in desperate need of a paint job. An unexpected hush sweeps through the dusky door, wherein a birthing cauldron of fashion rustles with the drop of every pin. With a push, a rusty …