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Five beach must-haves for summer in Vancouver

By Marjolyn Ustaris | Image: Cuchè | Published: June 07, 2010
Vancouver beach essentials bathing suits, towels, beach bags, sunscreen

Rock the beach this summer with these Vancouver-centric local style and beauty finds

Summer is fast approaching us! Before you head out to start shopping for your suits, sunscreen and other necessities for fun in the sun, check out these sweet local finds to help fill your beach bag—and do good for Mother Nature.
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Vancouver fashion design grads go green

By Alex Samur & Beata Kozma | Image: Hilary Henegar | Published: April 13, 2010
Kwantlen Grad Fashion Show

Kwantlen fashion grads strut their (sustainable) stuff

Grads of Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s four-year fashion design program exhibited the cream of their collections at the school's annual runway show, The Show, last Wednesday, April 14, 2010.
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What does sustainable fashion mean to you?

By Davinia Yip | Image: iStock | Published: April 09, 2010
How to define sustainable fashion

Truly sustainable fashion—hard to find and harder to define?

What, exactly, is sustainable fashion? This may seem obvious at first glance, as words like organic, recycled and local rush to mind. But as we delve into the myriad aspects encompassed by the industry, from material sourcing all the way to storefront sales, a unified definition seems less and less attainable.
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The reign of cats and dogs

By Hilary Henegar | Image: Flora & Fauna Spring-Summer 2010 | Published: February 18, 2010
Flora & Fauna Spring-Summer 2010

Vancouver designer of ecofashion label Flora & Fauna dedicates her collection to orphaned dogs and cats

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Sweet and flirty Love Made Me

By Marjolyn Ustaris | Image: Love Made Me | Published: February 05, 2010
Vancouver lingerie line Love Made Me

Make yours a charmed boudoir with local lingerie line Love Made Me

Vancouver designer Tiffany Ho is no newbie to the lingerie scene; she was half the creative mind behind Third Floor Design, a lingerie label known for comfort and fun. Tiffany took over the company in 2009, and after a season of brainstorming lingerie-filled castles in the sky, she is now unveiling her soft-and-sexy new line Love Made Me.
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Fashionable art: Kulus Designs

By Janet Gyenes | Image: Brenndan Laird | Published: December 22, 2009

Kulus Design's fashion-forward blouses emblazoned with aboriginal artwork bring myth to the modern day



There’s a legend in the Kwagulth culture that Kulus, a mythological bird, emerged from the flood and lifted the logs used to build the first big house, says Amanda Anderson of Vancouver’s Kulus Designs, describing her family crest and company namesake.

“I’ve seen native art on a daily basis for my whole life,” says Anderson, who grew up in Victoria watching her mother create regalia—blankets bedecked with buttons and aprons—used in traditional potlatch ceremonies.

As a teenager, she fell in love with fashion and did a stint in Montreal working in fashion production. When she came back to the West Coast and was once again exposed to the beauty of aboriginal artwork, she “really wanted to blend those two worlds,” and Kulus Designs was created.

Emulating one of the latest trends in fashion—future imperfect (and harem pants!)—Anderson takes classic designs and exaggerates an element. Case in point: the voluminous sleeves on the Seagull dress. Deep blue, red and black tones embody tradition, and the fabrics are a modern blend of organic cotton and bamboo.


[+] info:


Kulus Designs


Available at

Dream and Shop Cocoon

in Vancouver



The stunning aboriginal designs are the work of Anderson’s stepfather, master carver John Livingstone, and her cousin Rande Cook.

Anderson’s goal is as much education as fashion; each hangtag tells the piece’s story, such as how the butter­fly that bedecks a blouse helped guide the Kwagulth people back to dry land after the flood.    

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kdon's Kim Cathers talks shop

By Jennifer Koning, JK Models | Image: Patrick Parenteau / DVPix | Published: November 19, 2009
Kim Cathers of Kdon

Vancouver fashion designer Kim Cathers of kdon and Our Social Fabric talks with JK Models’s Jennifer Koning

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Rest assured with natural-fibre pillows

By Carmen Spagnola | Image: Pillow Talk | Published: November 17, 2009
natural pillow

Why sleep on a sweaty, toxic synthetic pillow for one more night when a natural one is better for your health and will last much longer?

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Review'd: Bamboo charcoal pillows

By Carmen Spagnola | Image: iStock | Published: November 17, 2009
Bamboo charcoal pillows

Bamboo charcoal pillows are naturally antibacterial and are said to reduce stress, but are they comfortable?

Beach days!

By Emily Jubenvill | Image: courtesy Kelly B | Published: June 04, 2009
Beach bag essentials
The sun is shining, and everyone is out and about exploring our lovely city without the gortex blinders we've gotten used to over the winter. The beach is one of the destinations Vancouverites are flooding to, and I've got a few tips to here to keep your next trip to the beach green.  

Beach Bags

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