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 …
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. …
CHELSTON ESTATE Bermuda US$45-million Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean above the reflective glow of Grape Bay Beach, The Chelston Estate — just minutes away from the capital city of Hamilton — is among the finest of beachfront properties in the world. The sprawling Bermudian property sits on 14 acres of verdant grounds that bedrock a 10,000 …
It’s been almost a year since Peter Gilgan made the single largest private donation to a children’s hospital in Canadian history. “Didn’t you hear? I took it back,” he playfully jests about the $40 million he donated to the SickKids Centre for Research and Learning. Removing the lid to let his herbal tea cool while …
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 …
Outside-the-box thinking: the fuel of creativity, the propeller of progress. Also the bane of containers, cartons, cases, packages, packets and, of course, boxes the world over. Poor boxes. So misunderstood; so mistreated — always the scapegoat of a tired corporate cliché, always on the short end of a metaphor so trite its very utterance smacks …
The golf party was the last shoot I did for Monica Pedersen Make It Beautiful, and one I had been thinking about doing for a long time. I have been married 15 years and one of the best pieces of advice I received before I got married was from my father. He said, “Kid, find …
Margaret McCain’s mother had a problem managing her money: she loved giving it away. “She was incorrigible,” McCain says with a chuckle, recalling the predicaments that wild munificence brought. The family farm sunk into deep financial trouble over it, and was to be sold off. The family gathered at the Nova Scotia estate, sat down …
What came first, the chicken or the egg? According to Kyle Bean: both. Taking a playful philosophical jab at the age-old chicken versus egg dilemma, What Came First? — a life-sized chicken made of broken eggshells — is one of the many charming, thought-provoking, handcrafted pieces to emerge from the mind of this budding English …
It began in 1989, a year when spending sprees and an emphasis on brand names captured the zeitgeist of the era. A freshly minted Boston College graduate thinking that success was to be found in the narthex of corporate margins, Joe Bastianich gravitated to Manhattan like a kid to a lollipop. Wall Street was his …
