Bionx Bike When Jim Birchall wants to be steered in the right direction, he hops on his Bionx Bike. With its innovative Intelligent Mobility System, riders can crank up their energy and capture the cityscape. www.bionX.ca Breville Espresso Machine To keep his days feeling short and sweet, Birchall prefers the steamy precision extraction of The …
Krups Krups’ piano black Espresseria EA 8250 is the key to Torossian’s ebullience.www.krups.ca For Immediate Release Ronn Torossian totes his top-selling public relations book For Immediate Release wherever he goes. www.ronntorossian.com Philip Stein When he’s keeping track of time, Torossian does it with Philip Stein Prestige. www.philipstein.com Hint Water Torossian drops a Hint about seeing …
A noted restaurateur and TV star with an eponymous gourmet market and two cookbooks, Canadian celebrity chef Mark McEwan leads a four-course life. When he made the time to wine and dine us at Fabbrica, his most recent gastronomic venture, nothing was left off the table. The food is phenomenal, the atmosphere: outstanding; but the …
There once was a little girl named Lorena. For her, looking down was the key to success. At five years old, she rummaged around the floors of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus while her mother browsed through the beautiful racks of clothes. Fallen beads from dresses filled her palms and gave her a small …
It all starts with a conversation – a simple sit-down that is more meet-and-greet than business rendezvous. But once the books are closed and the hands are shook, the entry to event designer David M. Handy’s imagination bursts forth. Possessing a fanciful mind that is limited by neither colour nor concept, Handy’s desire is simply …
When one first hears the name Kyle Eastwood, you can’t help but think, ‘Isn’t his daddy the iconic filmmaker Clint Eastwood?’ Well, of course, the answer is an unequivocal ‘yes,’ but despite what most think they know, there is a lot more to this father-son relationship. In fact, one of the surprising, long-term collaborations that …
Candice Chan and Alison Slight have mastered the art of stirring up gossip – the good kind. Unlike most people, these two friends don’t just measure the success of an event by the quality of food or drink. For them, it’s accredited to how much media chatter they provoke and how long it lasts. With …
I’m going to just come out and say it: my closet is a disaster. Mounds of clothes sloppily folded in nonsensical piles of chaos; belts, books and boxes lost in some far-off foreign corner, buried deep for future wardrobe archaeologists to unearth. But if Melanie Fascitelli asked for some private time in there, I wouldn’t …
Take a moment and Google the words “billionaire,” “environmentalist” and “humanitarian” in a single search. It’s OK – I’ll wait. What was the first thing to come up? I got Richard Branson; not too many names come up after that. Indeed, the billionaire/environmentalist/humanitarian club is restricted to a small group – generally, you can’t amass …
They say that heat rises, but as we scale up a steep set of metal stairs to a Toronto photography studio’s searing second floor, the phrase personifies with blazing intensity. In a few swift flicks, W. Brett Wilson unfastens the top two buttons of his dress shirt. Rather than age him, the subtle wrinkles that …
