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Gossipmonger

Miss J. finds Toronto’s next top runway model

Ciara Hunt's winning walk (Image: Karon Liu)

“Would our first model please come out?” cooed Miss J., the statuesque America’s Next Top Model runway coach, in the Bloor Street Holt Renfrew this weekend for a “celebrity walk-off” slash promotion for his new book, Follow the Model.

Breakfast Television’s Dina Pugliese was first up. “Girl, I think if the shoe fits, wear it,” critiques Miss J. “If the shoe is a little too small, sweetie, you have to make it work.” Pugliese took off her stilettos for her second attempt. “I’ll have to take off a point ’cause she took off her shoe,” he told the panel of judges: gossip king Shinan Govani, MTV sweetheart Jessi Cruickshank and Canada’s answer to Tim Gunn, model agent Elmer Olsen.

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| 1 Comment » March 15, 2010 | 4:08 pm | Karon Liu

The Sporting Life

Toronto is party central for pro athletes looking to dodge the limelight

Just one of the places to go after defeating one of Toronto's sports teams (Image: Señor Codo)

Toronto is the place to party if you’re a professional athlete. According to the Wall Street Journal, the uptight banker’s go-to social guide, our town has made a name for itself among MLB, NBA and even NFL players for its plethora of skin bars, bicultural girls, low drinking age and a woman named Mona Halem. According to Raptors forward Antoine Wright, Halem is “notorious” throughout the sports world for “assembling attractive party guests to fête nearly every franchise that comes to town.” The Journal details how the pros operate here, in a city once “decidedly off the sports radar,” without being followed by paparazzi. In the end, though, the article reads a bit like an advertorial for Ashley Madison. Three examples, after the jump.

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| Leave a Comment » March 15, 2010 | 11:35 am | Greg Hudson

The Fame Monsters

Girlicious performance doesn’t blow—or at least doesn’t include blow

Natalie Mejia, of Girlicious semi-fame, didn’t let a little thing like being arrested for cocaine possession keep her down. Last week, reports said the singer wouldn’t make it to Toronto for a Chum Fanfest concert, but Mejia proved otherwise. Clad in a black bra and Chanel leggings, she performed at Masonic Temple on Friday with her two classy cohorts, Nichole Cordova and Chrystina Sayers.

We should have known that the man could never keep these girls down.

• A peek at Chum Fanfest 2010 [The Gate]

EARLIER:
• Girlicious singer arrested for cocaine possession, will miss Toronto music festival

| 3 Comments » March 15, 2010 | 11:29 am | Greg Hudson

Required Reading

On The Goods this week: fashion week venue drama, Philip Sparks’ show, Pistachio closing at Yorkdale, Type Books moving

For our readers who missed them, the most popular stories from The Goods this week:

• Toronto fashion week gets a new venue (for the second time in a month)

• Philip Sparks show begins rogue fashion week

• Jeanne Beker wears Hudson’s Bay coat to Paris fashion week

• Roots’ unintentionally un-PC sale

• Coco Rocha appears in “diverse” Louis Vuitton show

• Tavi Gevinson’s gig on Fashion Television: less chat, more hat

• Heather Reisman not invincible: Pistachio’s Yorkdale mall location to close

• Evan Biddell’s top-secret fashion week plans

• Forest Hill’s Type Books to move

| Leave a Comment » March 13, 2010 | 10:00 am | Toronto Life Staff

Telling Tales

She Does the City takes the high road, apologizes to Kelly Cutrone

After today’s Twitter maelstrom over She Does the City’s on-line tiff with Kelly Cutrone, which led to Cutrone cancelling her interview with them, the site has posted an apology:

We were surprised to see an offhand comment get under this indomitable woman’s skin. We admire Cutrone, and certainly didn’t mean to offend. But that’s the reality of our mediascape—the impersonal becomes personal, the PERSONA becomes personal, and soon no one knows whether they’re attributing genuine qualities of character, or merely qualities created by a crafty PR person. Sadly, we lost the interview with Kelly, but surely there will be plenty of opportunities to hear Cutrone speak about her new book and TV show—we just won’t get a front row seat this time. Have we learned to keep our mouths shut? Certainly not.
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| 4 Comments » March 12, 2010 | 2:45 pm | Carley Fortune

Pretty Young Things

The other, other Boleyn girl: Rachel McAdams is morphing into Scar-Jo

McAdams at TIFF back in 2007 (Image: Attit Patel)

Rachel McAdams has been Toronto’s most promising talent for years, but despite starring in some pretty good movies and making high-profile pals—hell, she and her ex-beau earned their own amalgamated nickname, McGosling—Hollywood doesn’t quite know what to do with the girl. And so, after years of trying to carve out her own niche, the Notebook beauty has reverted to a less original but well-proven Plan B. Or, perhaps better put, a Plan S, as in the ultimate sexspian Scarlett Johansson. How McAdams has been pulling pages from the Scar-Jo playbook after the jump.

Step 1: Land a Vogue cover
Johansson earned Vogue’s top honour in April 2007; McAdams scored the coveted cover girl spot in the January 2010 issue. Johansson looked like Marilyn Monroe; McAdams more closely resembled one of the gals from Designing Women. But hey, it’s the thought (i.e., the approval of Anna Wintour) that counts.

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| 1 Comment » March 12, 2010 | 2:30 pm | Courtney Shea

The Fame Monsters

Girlicious singer arrested for cocaine possession, will miss Toronto music festival

Girlicious singer Natalie Mejia will miss her Chum Fanfest performance tonight, which is bound to disappoint her Toronto fans and whoever was planning to purchase cocaine from her. According to Glendale News Press, the 21-year-old hot mess was picked up in Glendale, California, on Tuesday, when police pulled over a car she was riding in and found 12 bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse. (Apparently, whenever reporting on celebrities, brand names are important.)

She and the fellow who was driving the car were arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell. For her part, Mejia claims she has no idea how the cocaine got into her purse. We just wish Girlicious was still relevant enough to merit a recognizable reference to one of their songs.

• Police: singer had coke [Glendale News Press]

| 6 Comments » March 12, 2010 | 10:38 am | Greg Hudson

Cuckoo for Coco

Coco Rocha appears in “diverse” Louis Vuitton show

Keep in mind that the fashion world is vastly different from the real world, so when New York magazine dubs Marc Jacobs’s fall collection for Louis Vuitton “diverse,” with a “real, grown-up woman in mind,” they meant he cast models who are mostly white and in their late 20s and still slimmer than the rest of the population but not sickly looking.

Recently engaged Coco Rocha walked in a voluminous pink and grey patterned gown with a sweetheart neckline and thick straps that’s best described as Scarlett O’Hara meets Grace Kelly. Also walking in Wednesday’s ’50s-inspired show were Laetitia Casta, Elle Macpherson, Lara Stone, Bar Refaeli, Noémie Lenoir, Alessandra Ambrosio and new mom Adriana Lima, who range in age from 24 to 46.

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| 1 Comment » March 11, 2010 | 9:45 am | Karon Liu

The Goods

It’s make-over time at Style: new name, new face

Fashion is all about change and what’s new. That’s why we’re giving our Style blog a make-over and a fresh name: The Goods. Not coincidentally, this new title matches our other blogs: The Dish, which deals with Toronto’s eating and drinking scene; The Informer, our newly launched take on the news of the day; and The Hype, where we comment on TV, movies, celebrities and other cultural wonders. Style readers can still expect weekly sale notices, trend alerts, retail gossip and store openings from The Goods, but you’ll also find a more user-friendly and sleek design—because, let’s face it, looks matter and we’re vain.

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned. Fashion week’s just around the corner.

• Check out The Informer »
• Check out The Hype »

| 4 Comments » March 10, 2010 | 4:33 pm | Toronto Life Staff

The Hype

Unleash The Hype

Readers of torontolife.com could be forgiven for thinking that its editors only care about food and fashion. We are fanatical about eating and shopping, it’s true, but our obsessions don’t stop there. That’s why, in addition to tweaking our home page, we’re launching two new blogs: The Informer and The Hype.

The Hype is our entertainment blog, where you can find updates throughout the day on all the juicy culture news—from live blogging the Junos to the hottest gossip at TIFF to best bets at Luminato. We’ll swing both low- and highbrow, offering up authoritative recommendations, and dishing on the latest hookups, blow-ups and makeups among Toronto’s cultural power players.

This is also the place to find out what’s happening in the city. Each morning, we provide a rundown of the day’s noteworthy cultural events, and The Weekender, our guide to the weekend’s best events, will appear here on Thursday morning.

| 1 Comment » March 10, 2010 | 4:13 pm | Toronto Life Staff