I'll Never Part With My...

Cute little story that I was featured in the Toronto Standard today. Here's the intro: 

"Any day now the National Guard will deem my closet (and the surrounding floor) a disaster zone. The door doesn't close anymore and i've been doubling and tripling up on my hangers since 2010. Maybe I have a shopping problem, but the bigger issue is that I refuse to part with anything. Who knows when silk cropped pants will be back in style? Or my purple fur-trimmed belly top? What if I finally find an event to wear my knee-high lace up platform boots to?

I started asking around, and it turns out i'm not the only one who can't clean out my closet properly. A few of Toronto's fashion elite let it slip the pieces they can't bring themselves to toss." 

Read the full article here. 

Anna versus Anna

Just unearthed a new Tumblr gem called "Anna versus Anna"-  and it's kind of amazing. My newfound source of procrastination captures the dynamic (fictional) relationship between Anna Wintour (Editor in Chief of American Vogue) and Anna Dello Russo (Vogue Japan's Editor at Large), along with some of fashion's most notorious, including Anna Piaggi (Italian fashion writer), Bryan Boy (blogger), and more. How no one thought of this before is beyond me. 

You can follow Anna Versus Anna on Twitter here.

Culture As A Commodity

My friend, Chris, recently wrote a great piece on his blog about the commodification of culture. I thought it was, not only well-written, but also very insightful and sincere. 

"Fashion loves it some commodity. Despite the glamour and frivolous nature of the business, we must remember that fashion is here solely for one reason and one reason only: to sell stuff. Whether it be splashy ads in magazines, high-budget fashion films, the classic runway show — these are all tactics to make you want a certain product, whether you realize it or not. It is a multi-billion dollar industry after all. It must survive somehow."

Read the rest at Chris' blog, Fashion of the Chris!