For every think-piece that promised COVID would kill fashion, either at an industry or individual level, (and boy, was there a lot of them) those of us who love clothes knew that dressing as a mode of self-expression wouldn’t linger long in sweatsuit purgatory. Comfortcore, with its crocs and elastic waistbands, was the pandemic aesthetic—but […]
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Dartmouth’s Michnat Fashion is diversifying the scene—and your closet
Funmi Odeniyi learned to sew by studying her family members cranking fabric through machines—just like the Italian master of glamour and the bias-cut, Gianni Versace, learned the craft from his dressmaker mother. Odeniyi launched her label, the Dartmouth-based Michnat Fashion House, while pregnant—just like Paris’s 1970s queen of knitwear Sonia Rykiel. Her favourite things to […]
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LOCAL By Local Girl explores what “made here” means
LOCAL By Local Girl To Feb 8 Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street W hat does “local” mean, anyway? NSCAD student Anita Joh’s artistic persona (and “conceptual brand”) LOCAL by Local Girl is an attempt to dig into that question through a series of pop-ups, installations and social-media engagements. The brand includes everyday functional objects, […]
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Halifax street style: Gottingen Street
Name: Kate Macdonald Age: 28 Occupation: Education and outreach coordinator, artist, activist Spotted: Halifax North Memorial Public Library on Gottingen Street Wearing: Sweater, t-shirt and army pants: H&M; jacket: Forever 21; kicks: Jordans. “I have a Black Lives Matter patch on my jacket that my wildly talented artist girlfriend Kordeena Clayton (She Nubian Liberation) made.” […]
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Behind the look: BZLY
BZLY thebzly.com Intelligent life, out there somewhere: Peter Hemsworth, the creator behind streetwear-focused fashion line BZLY, doesn’t know if it exists—but he sure is fascinated by how it might dress. “I think the best part is the mystery of it all anyways,” he says. For the label’s latest limited-run collection, released last month, Hemsworth was […]
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Vintage clothing for plus bodies, by plus bodies
For Olivia Weir—the curatorial eye behind Instagram account Fat Chance Vintage—a love of thrift that saw her skipping high school to hit up Value Village became more than a hobby with the speed of a Nike swoosh. She held a 1980s bomber from the brand in a thrift shop, and, as she recalls, “It was […]
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First look: Thief & Bandit’s downtown showroom/studio
Thief & Bandit grand opening 1673 Barrington Street Saturday May 25, 11am-5pm A mie Cunningham uses the word organic a lot when she’s talking about Thief & Bandit. From the fabric she prints on, to her creative process, to the slow-and-steady evolution of her fashion line, a nod to the natural sums up her nearly […]
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KingsPier Curated Collections is heading to Halifax
After four years of business in downtown Dartmouth, Laura MacNutt says the price is wrong. The KingsPier Curated Collections owner—who first ran her vintage clothing shop in a cute spot behind King’s Wharf, on the Shubie Canal and most recently at 122 Portland Street—is moving to 1568 Argyle Street because after a recent rent increase, […]
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The Loot brings streetwear to Charles Street
View this post on Instagram A post shared by THE LOOT (@theloothfx) on Apr 25, 2019 at 3:20am PDT “I curate vintage and thrift, inspired by ’90s, ’80s and early 2000s streetwear,” says Anna Campbell, the sole proprietor of The Loot, a new vintage shop in the former home of RIO (5781 Charles Street, behind […]
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Genevieve Gruenke is Halifax’s jean queen
While Genevieve Gruenke has only had her biz Rerocc Halifax open for a few months, she’s really been working as a tailor since the age of nine. “My dad always wore Levi’s jeans. I loved to sew from a very young age and my dad saw that, so he started saying ‘Hey, if you repair […]
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Shotgun Vintage calling
When Sam Hatfield was a kid, she used to design hypothetical outfits for the Spice Girls. Her drawings were so good, she sold them to friends at school for 50 cents apiece. The fashion lover has always considered herself a creative, but despite these early forays in design, she never really dreamed of having her […]
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Uniforme Inc’s functional fashion
“An interpretation of Maritime blue collar. Manufactured in Nova Scotia, Canada,” is what you’ll read when you search @uniformeinc, a fashionable line of practical clothing from Dartmouth-based (and Dartmouth proud) creative duo Jesse Ingalls and Kevin MacDonald. “I had an idea for a brand and I was picking his brain because he’s a genius,” says […]