LIP SERVICE

My bad. I have been out of town visiting pals in the hinterlands and have not updated the blog for weeks.
But there will be shoes.

My tireless foot soldier Tom Sandler has been snap happy, shooting the party folk in their finery.

 

SHOE DEPARTMENT

 

Going for the golden glitter at the Literary Review Gala at 1 King West.

Put on these dancing shoes and dream in technicolour.

A black magic woman right down to her pedicure.

Silver platforms are made for an event like the Imagine Gala at the Westin Harbour Castle in support of the Pinball Clemons Foundation.

More Pinball wizardry: sexy suede stilettos.

Leapin’ lizards in pointy-toed blue.

These black-and-white crocodile cuties rock!

Leopard has always been the new black.

A lip-print installation by Canadian photographer/artist David Drebin, who debuted his revolutionary photo sculptures at Art Toronto in October.

This pet portrait spotted at Winners is not remotely revolutionary but it is so cute. Though distinctly royal, it is not a corgi.

The All Saints coat that got away. Loved, loved, loved it but it retails for about $600, and it was either buy that or pay my water bill.

Jewelry designer Rita Tesolin, the coolest woman at FashionCan Runway Shows & Yorkdale Expansion Preview. She is wearing her own bijoux and a rockin’ coat by Simon Chang.

A creepy hologram of either Slash or Alice Cooper in the men’s lounge area of Nordstrom’s at Yorkdale.

A zebra ponytailed pair of Gucci pumps at Nordstrom’s, celebrated for their shoe section.

How can you miss with this fun fur? It goes with everything. And nothing.

FASHION & ACCESSORIES

Seems like everyone weighs in on accessories. From Carole Pope’s classic “I’m a victim of fashion and accessories” to the philosophical proposition that what separates us from animals is our facility to accessorize to an old T-shirt I had proclaiming “Every day I wake up thankful for my innate ability to accessorize.”  But you gotta love accessories. They don’t shame you on a fat day.

 

SHOE DEPARTMENT

 

Tireless Tom Sandler has been diligently shooting footwear on his rounds covering the social scene. For him, it’s a snap.

 

There were no wings on their feet for the Women in Aviation at the 8^th Annual Elsie MacGill Northern Lights Awards Foundation Gala at Toscana Banquet & Conference Centre but there was this cool pair of black booties with slats detailing. Lattice entertain you.

These beauties are perfect for a black-tie event.

A pair of suede lace-ups that come in grey or black. When in doubt, take both.

My furry feet at home in a pair of Michael Kors sneakers. I am so not a sneaker girl but who can resist burgundy fur? And they are beyond comfy. So far.

Serious socks appeal happening during artist/photographer Ed Burtynsky’s book launch at Nicholas Metivier Gallery.

This pointy-toed pump displays aspirations of Jackson Pollock-ness with its white painterly splatter.

How best to take the emphasis off your walking cast? Wear leopard shoes.

 

A tie me up/tie me down moment during the Stratford Festival gala honouring Gordon Pinsent held at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Actor Joe Matheson rocked these black and white wing-tips.

Meanwhile his wife, actor/singer Louise Pitre, had sparkle aplenty.

Moi toasting the woman with the coolest jacket in the room at the official launch party of H Project’s Uncrate South America at Holt Renfrew’s Bloor Street location last Thursday. I am wearing a Symthe army coat, the long version of the jacket Kate Middleton wore during her visit to British Columbia and the Yukon last week. And what’s not to Symthe? It’s a fabbo line.

The deejay action at the Uncrate event, backed by a South American femme.

The official Uncrate South America logo. The Peruvian earrings generated one of the biggest buzzes of the night.

My reading material – Couture Confessions: Fashion Legends in their Own Words by Pamela Golbin, chief curator of 20^th century fashion and textiles at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs -- resting unfashionably on my cat-ravaged hassock.

Even the construction hoarding is fashionable in terminally trendy Yorkville.

This dress could have been designed by Warhol, but it's a Wallo, part of the Cabinet Ephemere exhibit of hot Quebec designers at a pop-up shop at 12 Ossington Ave. throughout the weekend.

Lipstick on your collar told the tale on you -- this shirt by Christopher Bates comes with lip-print already applied. Now that's what I call lip service.

 

Rita Elias models a fuzzy pink wrap from her Maison Elama line of furs, designed to bring a pop of colour to your wardrobe. 

Loved this sweatshirt, spotted on a shopper at the accessories level at Nordstrom’s. Who doesn’t want one? Alas, she got it in China.