The fashion magazine for style nerds: WORN gets the feature treatment

Upstart indie fashion magazine publisher Serah-Marie Mahon and her team at WORN Fashion Journal get a starring role this weekend in a Globe and Mail feature by Robert Everett-Green. Not bad for a twice-yearly, quirky and idiosyncratic title with a small, but impressive circulation. “We were just unhappy with the prescriptive nature of most fashion magazines. We wanted to inspire people not

Warmer and fuzzier; writer Leanne Delap parses Canada's big 3 fashion mags for their character

"Fortunately, being a bitch is so last season."

 With that, former Fashion magazine editor-in-chief (2000 - 2003) and Globe and Mail fashion writer Leanne Delap has created a profile of the Canadian fashion magazine industry in the National Post, painting a picture of fashionistas who are warmer and fuzzier than their American cousins (think The Devil Wears Prada). Here's how she characterizes

Tricks and treats of the makeup trade

In honour of Hallowe'en, a friend directed us to the New York Times women's fashion blog, Model-Morphosis, which shows some awesomely attractive models before and after the makeup artists are through with them. Photographer Greg Kessler captured the transformation during Paris Fashion Week. When you go to the Flash images, move the orange bar to see the before and after. Most of the befores look

Toronto Life creates some fashion buzz about high-end battle between The Bay and Holt Renfrew

There's some buzz among fashionistas about an article by Leah McLaren in the upcoming Toronto Life (on newsstands October 14). It's about the battle for high-end fashion supremacy between the traditional top dog, Holt Renfrew, and The Bay, resurgent under new ownership and leadership.McLaren says of Bonnie Brooks, The Bay's president and CEO:"Brooks' strategy -- boosted by a well-received Olympic

Paul Rockett, magazine fashion photography trendsetter, dies at the age of 90

Paul Rockett, a magazine and portrait photographer who changed the face of fashion and magazine photography across North America, has died in Vancouver at the age of 90. According to a story carried by the Canadian Press, Rockett brought a European sensibility to his fashion shoots, capturing models in motion and with naturalistic lighting and attitude. Toronto Life at one time dubbed him "

Will it be the law to disclose that a magazine has airbrushed its cover model?

We won't hold our breath about seeing it in Canada or the States, but there is an interesting proposal in Australia that would require magazines to carry disclaimers about their fashion photos being airbrushed and Photshopped. (This is not the first country to consider it.) According to a story in Marie Claire's U.K. website, the Australian government unveiled a new strategy to deal with women's

Women encouraged to dump fashion magazines that make them feel bad about themselves

A campaign by the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) is aimed at getting women to ditch their fashion magazines because they make their readers feel fat. The transit ad (there are also greeting cards, T-shirts, print ads, garment tags and a petition) is on a shelter at Queen Street West and Soho Street in Toronto. It has a slot where readers can dispose of their fashion magazines

These things add up, you know: tallying the price tag for U.S. fashion mags

The blog Jezebel deployed two of its interns to plow through the September issues of fashion "ladymag" magazines published out of the U.S. and tally up what the price tag was for the "expensive shit" that was contained therein. Their best guess is as follows:Most Shameless September Ladymag: Elle. Total Shit: $73,566,063 Runners-Up:Glamour. Total Shit: $1,511,568Vogue . Total Shit: