We need this. Really. Take a look at our entire Spring Fashion Feature, right here, and don’t forget to follow our Instagram this weekend as designer, blogger and all around rad lady Mo Handahu takes over and shows us her version of a fashionable Halifax weekend. Freshly styled: On our cover Nova Fashion Incubator is […]
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Cassandra Burrell
Cassandra Burell of CassBurr Designs had a gift for fashion from the early age of six. She began sewing during her after-school program, but it wasn’t until 14 that she realized a career as a fashion designer was a viable option. Her focus is on creating an aesthetic that appeals to everyone, from women in […]
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Jing Jin
For most of us, homesickness tends to manifest in the form of late-night binges on air mailed delicacies from home or a good cry into a glass of wine. Jing Jin, however, channelled her longing for her home of Changsha, China into her craft. “Because I’m a foreigner, sometimes I feel lonely,” she says. “I […]
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Lee Dekel
Durable khaki, identity and culture are creatively stitched together in Lee Dekel’s 2015 collections. While completing a degree in the history of science at King’s, Dekel took a year off in 2012 to travel to her birthplace, Israel, which changed her perception of clothing. During her time there, Dekel (who grew up in Toronto) became […]
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Theresa Lee Capell
Theresa Lee Capell’s work is all about beauty found in nature. Capell (AKA Miss Foxine) grew up with a strong sense of adventure and a keen desire to create magical things. Influenced by “fairytales and whimsicality and the magic of the world around us—things that people seem to forget,” Capell’s business took off when people […]
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Maggie MacCormick: From Halifax to Rajasthan
A building rooftop in Delhi is about as far away from Halifax as you can get. But it’s where designer Maggie MacCormick is trying to find a decent phone signal. Our initial interview had to be rescheduled, by no fault of her own, because she was “trapped in a fabric bazaar” and couldn’t find her […]
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Nova Fashion Incubator is living la mode local
Spring Cleaning Pop Up used clothing sale Saturday, May 9 Nova Fashion Incubator, 1531 Grafton Street suite 301 Want to be the next Alexander Wang? Well don’t pack your bags for New York yet—there’s a place in Halifax to help you thread those duds and get them on the racks, and they’ll teach you how […]
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Freshly styled
Photographer Meghan Tansey Whitton conceived our cover idea and assembled the team—including stylist Carole Rankin—to erase all trace of gross, lingering snowbank piles with this colour-saturated cover. IT’S SPRING, GODDAMNIT! Amie Cunningham of Thief&Bandit’s new trapeze-style dress in cactus print was made specifically for this shoot and screenprinted on organic stretch jersey in their Bedford […]
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Spring must haves
SCARF Insung Choi hand-knits all her scarves and hats for her online shop Ichoiknitz out of pure enjoyment. A light wool infinity scarf takes you from parkas to jean jackets. Tri-colour scarf ($40) is available at etsy.com/shop/ichoiknitz. Fellow Earthlings are a Haligonian husband and PEI wife creating custom made-to-order sunglasses, designed and handmade in Guernsey […]
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Fashion ain’t easy
College students, current and former, are used to “camping out” in libraries, pulling all-nighters during the final term push. But Becky Gartner is taking it to the next level. In preparation for NSCAD’s senior fashion show, *Thaw*, the fourth-year student loaded up her trusty Dodge Caravan with a mattress, pillows and sheets and parked it […]
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What are Columbiners?
[Image-1] Since Friday the media and public have been grasping for the motivations behind a planned mass murder spree that thankfully never came to fruition. The accused shared “dark” imagery online. They were white supremacist neo-Nazies. Depending on who you ask, they were bloodthirsty terrorists or “murderous misfits.” At the very least, they were Columbiners. […]
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The party’s over for CBC’s inadvertent incubator
We know that CBC is shrinking. For decades we’ve heard of seemingly endless cuts to the federal funding that keeps our public radio and television services alive. In Halifax, the fact will be hard to deny when the iconic, Art Deco CBC Radio building at Sackville and South Park Streets succumbs to the wrecking ball […]