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Style

Edeline Lee Makes Smart Dresses for Successful Women

The Vancouver-born fashion designer wants her clothes to add flair, style, and comfort.

Food and Drink

Selling Canadian Wine to the Brits

Message in a Bottle.

Why pouring B.C. wine in London makes good business sense.

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi

Food and Drink

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi

S Stands for Just About Anything.

In his latest cookbook, the British-Israeli chef siphons the stress out of at-home meals, and makes cookbook dishes more straightforward, more achievable, and less, well, chef-y.

Food and Drink

Cary Docherty

Cook culture.

A Richmond native climbed the ranks in London to become one of the city’s hottest up-and-coming chefs.

Design

Alison Brooks

Mixed uses.

The Ontario-born, London-based architect is finally embarking on her first North American project, and it’s right here in the Lower Mainland.

Essay

On A Good Night in Vancouver

Coming home.

A Vancouver Island native plays emotional tug-of-war with her adopted city.

Travel

The Curtain

Take a bow.

From the brains behind the Gansevoort hotel chain comes this boutique hotel and private members club.

Beauty

111SKIN

Starry-eyed.

This high-performance line is made by the same chemists who create protective products for astronauts.

Style

“Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion” at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Unflinching vision.

Disregarding conventional standards of beauty and how they translated to fashion, Balenciaga was more interested in the sculptural design of garments, pioneering entirely new uses for fabric.