POP TARTAN

T’was a week of fashion and in-your-face pampering courtesy of an app. Now you can order hair and makeup just like you would book an Uber. My favourite app is still the flashlight on my iPhone.

But then I am a troglodyte.

This pop of colour in the windows of Wm. Prager Ltd., purveyors of rolling racks, mannequins and assorted retail display items at 391 Adelaide St. W. stopped me in my tracks.

On Tuesday, the beauty cognoscenti be-lined to the Thompson Hotel for free hair and makeup at the launch party of Toronto’s first on-demand beauty app beGlammed, which debuted in Las Vegas. This is the back view of the coif of one of the stylists, who has a way with chopsticks.  Check out the website www.beGlammed.com. I had my eye makeup done and thankfully, didn’t look like a drag queen. Only Dino Dilio does my eyes better.

This dapper cat in the hat was one of the few men at the beGlammed event. He could easily have been an extra in Guys and Dolls.

 

An impossibly hip duo who constituted the coolest kids in the room. Incredibly, they are not models but a stylist and writer.

Veteran fashion scribe David Livingstone demonstrates his first smart phone during the Pink Tartan fashion show at Holt Renfrew Tuesday night.

One of the runway pieces from Pink Tartan featuring a signature look: fur on suiting.

Singer Molly Johnson duets with fashion innovator Robin Kay at the Pink Tartan show.

Model Yasmin Warsame shines in gold Pink Tartan culottes at the fashion show. She allegedly gave birth a month ago but has no telltale bump. Wowsa! Did Fed Ex carry and deliver the child?

Among all the impossibly pricey “It” bags, this was the best of the night -- a whimsical “under construction” purse.

On Thursday I slogged through the ice storm to the headquarters of Faulhaber Communications to preview spring lines from Ted Baker London to Birds of North America. I was given a white tulip upon exit and it survived the whole day of schlepping until I arrived home when it was attacked savagely by devil cat Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., who even retrieved its battered remains from the recycle bin to inflict further damage. These are two of my favourite things from the spring offerings.

Loved the fringed cuffs from CB 1969, designed by OCAD grad Carineh Babyan. She even makes a delicious fuzzy pom-pom version.

Who doesn’t need metallic-leather fringed arm warmers? These from the edgy/romantic accessories line Uncuffed knock it right out of the ballpark. Uncuffed also does a killer tiara made of handcrafted leather roses perfect for prom.