A love letter to my abusive boyfriend – Toronto Fashion Week

Dear  Toronto Fashion Week,
I know that’s not your name anymore, but I like to keep old nicknames. Skydome will always be Skydome. You are who you are, and you are frickin’ Toronto Fashion Week.
You moved this year too, I liked your old place, but your new one is pretty nice.
With all your very nice furniture [...]

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Craving more box water, we return to Fashion Week

Well, we went back for more (Brook REALLY liked that tetrapack water). The passport office’s baffling queue system meant I was too late to get into Katrina Tuttle’s show (sorry Brook!), but we watched it on the screen outside. Lots of pretty frocks covered in pleats and flowers, worn by models who could not walk [...]

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Wherein Brook drags Alison kicking and screaming to LGFW

Alright, that blog post title might be a wee bit dramatic. I’m not actually throwing tantrums about my first ever Fashion Week, I just hate crowds. But I do like people walking in a straight line while wearing pretty clothes. So yesterday I braved my first foray into the big white tent at King and [...]

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Brook’s Quicky – Paris FW SS10 – Alexander McQueen

Mr Alexander McQueen;
You are just f***ing amazing. I have wanted to eat your brains in hopes of a fashion-zombie-like-absorption of your talents… don’t be freaked out – this is my ultimate fashion compliment.
Just. wow. And I’m having a hard time trying to put the words in the correct order to explain without sounding really weird. [...]

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Brooky’s Quickie – Paris FW SS10 – Chanel

There’s nothing more french than Chanel, is there?
I always envisioned that if you are born Parisian, they wrap you in Chanel tweed at the hospital.
Chanel shows always have these GIGANTIC set productions which probably cost more than my house, and this year they took it to the farm, literally. Models strutted around a quaint country [...]

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Brooky’s Quicky – Paris FW – SS10 – Christian Dior

Oh la la, j’adore Dior
Well it looks like Mr Galliano got deep into the Film Noir this time. When this guy gets a theme – he runs with it and sticks to it. Trench coats; short and long, wide and skinny – you will wear trench coats next summer. Galliano has declared.
Every model had Veronica [...]

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Brooky’s Quicky Paris FW SS10 – Balenciaga

Balenciaga is a label that I probably will never 1) the legs or 2) the bravery to wear.
It’s a brand that I like to observe, like on a safari. Whenever Jennifer Connelly shows up at an event, I sit back and stare at the art in motion.
Like abstract art, first you’re slapped in the face with [...]

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Brooky’s Quicky – Milan FW SS01 – Gucci

Every time I fantasize about living in Europe with my Sugar-Daddy Giovanni (this happens occassionally…I work in an office – don’t judge) I always envision myself with wind- blowing-in-hair and wearing Gucci.
Gucci = entrance. Every time you see an amazon walk into a room and there is instant daaaaamn (that’s the sound of the sexy [...]

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Brook’y Quicky – Milan FW SS10 – Prada

Bonjourno Italia!!!
There is something I always think of when I think of Prada;  balls.
As in  – You have to have balls to wear Prada. Every time I see a woman in Prada, all that’s goes through my head is ‘damn!’.
There is a level of sophistication and confidence you MUST have to wear Prada. Otherwise…it just doesn’t work.
The [...]

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Brooky’s Quicky LFW SS10 – Matthew Williamson

I have spent just over 24 hours in England, it was a bit of a blur. And that’s probably how I’ll treat London Fashion Week.
First up – Matthew Williamson, whom frankly, I don’t know much about – I totally missed out on his H&M collection dammit. What I DO know is that his prints are [...]

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