Here’s a certainty in an uncertain world: the Canadian music scene would be infinitely drearier if Bif Naked wasn’t in it.   Now 56 and based in Toronto after decades in Vancouver, the multihyphenate performer – singer, songwriter, actor and author, not to mention breast cancer survivor, humanitarian and a darn nice person – has, in…

MINIMALISM [caption id="attachment_631284" align="alignnone" width="666"] Sometimes the biggest statement can be an understatement. At the 44th Oscars in 1972, Jane Fonda (right) chose an off-the-rack Yves Saint Laurent suit with a Mao collar as an anti-Vietnam war protest. Fonda won the Best Actress Oscar that night for her role in Klute, which also starred Donald…

A stylist since 2008, Brown Thall has quietly amassed a client list that reads like a red-carpet fever dream. Her aesthetic leans toward unabashedly feminine, with a particular devotion to maxi-dresses – she owns around 200 of them by her own estimate. Petite at five-foot-one, she refuses to follow the fashion rules and always dresses…

My French-Canadian grand-mère Yvonne worked tirelessly into her 70s as head of housekeeping at the Timmins, Ont., Ramada Inn and probably would have been mortified that, of all the mementos available after she died in 2018, I kept her set of work keys. The last thing my grandmother did before leaving the house at dawn…

Fashion designers come and go, hemlines rise and fall and who-wore-it-better today won’t matter a week hence, and certainly not in a generation. Our Zoomerist articles, however, offer style insight and advice that shut out the noise of the moment and take a longer and more considered view, focusing on the constants in the ever-changing…

It's beginning to look a lot like Chic-mas! These buys for him and her are the gifts that keep on giving back.      Bijoux & Baubles Toronto jewellery designer Michelle Ross followed her graduation from the London College of Fashion with a stint working for Montreal born, London-based design star Erdem, the coveted label…