Gold Winner Sweet Pea Boutique Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Vivacious Vixen Apparel “I’ve been around for what will be 13 years in a couple of months. I just had a lot of loyal customers I grew up with,” says Sweet Pea’s Johanna Galipeau of her shop’s success. “We bring in new things […]
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Best Women’s Clothing Store
Gold Winner Sweet Pea Boutique Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Vivacious Vixen Apparel This marks year four of Spring Garden-area’s Sweet Pea nabbing the crown for Best Women’s Clothing Store and it’s not hard to see why voters keep flocking back to the frock-focused shop: Business owner Johanna Galipeau can be found within […]
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Best Women’s Clothing Store
Gold Winner Sweet Pea Boutique Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Bodega Boutique “You’re gonna make me cry,” Johanna Galipeau, owner of Sweet Pea Boutique, says with audible surprise when she hears her fashion playground has been crowned Best Women’s Clothing Store. She credits her hands-on approach as part of her win, putting the […]
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Sweet Pea Boutique has been helping Haligonians look cute for 10 years
Johanna Galipeau remembers the first dress she ever sold: Plain grey with a bubble-style skirt. “So, so 2007,” says Galipeau, the owner of Sweet Pea Boutique. Then 19, she’d been attending university for a year-and-a half before she realized it wasn’t for her. When she told her parents of her plans to drop out—and her […]
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Halifax street style: Terminal Road
Name: Thanh Phung Age: 31 Spotted: Terminal Road Wearing: Sweater, H&M; jeans, Zara; jacket, ASOS; bag, Longchamp (purchased at Foreign Affair) How would you describe your style? My style matches how I feel so it never is the same all the time. Overall I would describe my style as feminine and comfortable. Who do you derive inspiration from when putting […]
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Best Retail Sign
Gold Winner Freak Lunchbox, Halifax Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Sweet Pea Boutique When Freak Lunchbox’s headquarters on Barrington Street moved two doors down in 2015, it made a monstrous splash by hiring Montreal mural artist Jason Botkin to paint a sublime, sea-inspired scene on the side of the building, luring southbound traffic […]
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Best Women’s Clothing Store
Gold Winner Sweet Pea Boutique Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Alexa Pope Celebrations are in order for Sweet Pea—the business reaches its first major milestone in May. Johanna Galipeau opened the boutique nearly 10 years ago, an ambitious endeavour for her at the age of 19. This landmark is a chance to look […]
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11 Street Boutique opens this weekend
Erica Cormier is inspired. The north end resident and entrepreneur is opening her first venture into small business—11 Street Boutique (5649 Hennessy Street, on the corner of Isleville)—this weekend in the Hydrostone, and she says she couldn’t have done it without her local retail muses. “I’m really into shopping local, and boutique shopping, and I […]
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All about that lace: Katrina Tuttle debuts new bridal designs
Katrina Tuttle knows that just because not all brides are looking for a Kleinfeld’s experience doesn’t mean they have an exact vision of the dress that’ll make them say “hell yes.” The local dress designer turned her focus to bridal about a year a go with Katrina Tuttle Bridal, offering handmade, custom gown designs to […]
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Ring in 2016 in style
Going outSweet Pea, 1542 Queen Street Nothing says New Year’s Eve like a sequinned romper and black knee-high boots. This outfit might make people think you looted the set of a Taylor Swift music video (and red lipstick will further their suspicion)—but the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, so just shake it off. House […]
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The complete holiday sweater guide
Ugly Nothing says Ugly Sweater Party like a stitched-on snowman decal. Your best bet is to raid the local thrift store for this one—and keep the sizing generous, for maximum turkey consumption. Put Me On Consignment 1526 Queen Street Festive For a (slightly) less obnoxious look, opt for a print like plaid in a colour […]
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Best Women’s Clothing Store
Gold Winner Sweet Pea Boutique Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Vivacious Vixen With an enchanting selection of dresses, blouses, shirts and suits for any occasion, owner of Sweet Pea Boutique, Johanna Galipeau, has a passion for fashion. Aside from Sweet Pea, Galipeau is known for its former sister shop Twisted Muse, but she’s […]