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.