Week-End de Toute Beauté. November 7th, 2014. Part Two.

When my sister and I got back from our late lunch, we found the convention center filling up with people just getting off work. A few new installations had been set up and people were slowly gravitating toward the main stage.  Our very own Guylaine Tremblay spoke about some of her red carpet experiences, throwing in a few personal anecdotes that made people chuckle. Geneviève and I really like her and I'm hoping I'll get the chance to hear her talk about her personal and professional triumphs and challenges, one day, but this segment was all about glamour and dressing up for the red carpet.  This was followed by...

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Pause. Old Montreal. November 7th, 2014.

My sister and I took some time off from Le Weekend de Toute Beauté, to grab some lunch, stroll around Old Montreal and to sit down and chat over some Starbucks. Here are some photos I took (and posted to Instagram) with my old camera phone. One more post to go before my photos improve! ...

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Week-End de Toute Beauté. November 7th, 2014. Part One.

On November 7th, my little sister and I headed out to day one of le Week-End de Toute Beauté, a convention addressing all things beauty and fashion related, at the Montreal Congress Centre. My sister, Geneviève, is 16 and about to start her own lifestyle blog and we thought this would be the perfect opportunity for her to get going on that. We kick-started our tour with some shopping at China Glaze. I usually stick to OPI, Revlon, Sally Hansen and, thanks to wantable, Spellbound but my sister convinced me to try this out. Once we'd purchased a few bottles, we found out that China Glaze was about to give a demonstration, or "banc d'essai"...

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Beasts of Fashion Gala. November 6th, 2014.

On November 6th, I made my way to the Corona Theatre for the first ever Beasts of Fashion Gala, where over $100 000 was raised for the Montreal SPCA. It was a pleasant event, with snappily-dressed people enjoying tiny morsels and free-flowing wine. I watched from the balcony as the show started and, within ten minutes, was crying openly, as we were told the story of a dog who had been badly beaten by her owner. After being shown images of the poor dog, our tears turned to those of joy as a now healed and joyous pup strutted across the stage to hearty applause and whoops of joy. In addition to the silent auction being held, a live auction raised...

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11th Annual Défilé Logis Rose-Virginie

When you attend as many as four fashion events in a week and no fewer than three in a month, over the course of at least one year, a lot of them tend to blend together in your mind. We have a surprising amount of fashion designers in Montreal, especially given the textile industry's decline here but, with that many fashion shows staged on a regular basis, you start to see the same designers, and sometimes the same pieces, over and over again. Once in a while, you attend a show and you are highly entertained and left craving more. It could be the production level, the presentation of the garments, the designs themselves, the way guests and media...

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Melissa Nepton's SS15 Show

On October 29th, I had the pleasure of attending Melissa Nepton's SS15 show, while on assignment for Naiad. You can check out my piece at The Models' Coach. Please keep in mind that, when I write for The Models' Coach, I do so in order to inform models and so emphasis is placed on technicalities, styling, casting, etc. ...

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D Moment: SS15 Collection Previews from Montreal Up-and-Comers.

(Posted on Wordpress October 22nd, 2014. And this is the last one to be shipped over here from Wordpress.) Last Wednesday, I made it out to Rosemont, for day two of the second annual D Moment event, hosted by Mode Montréal. I missed the first day as I was busy bouncing from one Koodo store to the next, until someone finally sent me broken phone in for repair. This is also why the photos seen here are not at par with the ones I usually post. It takes a lot to embarrass me but pulling out the Galazy III Mini I had borrowed from Koodo to take photos at a fashion event was, at the very least, uncomfortable. D Moment provides local up-and-coming...

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FlashMode: A Fall Fashion Event in Old Montréal

(Posted on Wordpress on October 3rd, 2014) For almost a year, the only capacity under which I had been covering local events was for a blog directed at models, in an effort to inform them about local events. While I appreciate the opportunity to not only immerse myself in the Montreal fashion scene but to write about it, no matter the context, I must say that I'm quite happy with my decision to start covering shows for my own blog, as well. It is therefore with seemingly new eyes and an open mind that, on October first, I made my way to FlashMode, at the Darling Foundry, in Old Montreal. The invite-only event drew attention to...

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