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Just Opened: Drake Hotel’s third General Store

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The place: The Drake Hotel expands its General Store empire with its third location in as many years. The new shop is a partnership with the Toronto clothing line Shared (the designers Joyce Lo and Carlo Colacci are buyers for the General Store), which has occupied the King and Bathurst premises since last fall.

The stuff: Shared’s tissue-soft organic tees (this season’s collection sports magic-themed graphics) are still on offer, as is a selection of old-school Levi’s jeans and Cheap Monday plaid shirts. The staple General Store gift store tchotchkes are here, too, but the Bathurst shop focuses more on quirky accessories for the home—vintage measuring cups, juicers and light fixtures—than the Queen (giftware) and Rosedale (where kids’ items get more play) locations. Even the rustic-looking display cases and furniture are for sale.

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June 1, 2010 | 10:37 am

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Michael Kors store coming to the Eaton Centre

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Added to the slew of summer store launches in Toronto, a Michael Kors “lifestyle” shop is set to open in the Eaton Centre at the end of the month. Shoppers familiar with the stores in Sherway Gardens, Yorkdale and at the Shops at Don Mills can expect pretty much the same from the EC location: women’s handbags, footwear, accessories, clothing and a whole lot of gold.

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May 18, 2010 | 9:25 am

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Stuart Weitzman coming to the Eaton Centre

This August, Stuart Weitzman will open its first Toronto stand-alone boutique in the Eaton Centre (there are already two locations in Quebec). The store will be over 1,500 square feet and carry the full collection; in Toronto, a selection of pieces from the brand are currently available only in select stores. Shoes typically fall in the $300 to $500 range.

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May 14, 2010 | 11:45 am

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Juicy Couture opening first Toronto store next week

Uptown girls passionate about velour tracksuits can rejoice in the news that Juicy Couture is opening its first stand-alone Canadian store next week at Yorkdale. “Opening a Juicy Couture boutique in Canada was a natural progression for us,” company president Edgar Huber told industry watcher Fibre 2 Fashion. “We’ve had tight but successful retail distribution in Canada to date, and we knew the customer was ready for a free-standing Juicy retail destination. We are excited about the potential of Toronto, and we consider Yorkdale Shopping Centre to be a perfect fit for our brand.” The 2,100-square-foot shop will open its doors on May 20.

• Juicy Couture debuts in Toronto at Yorkdale [Fibre 2 Fashion]

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=86048

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May 13, 2010 | 4:39 pm

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Kimberley Newport-Mimran to open first Pink Tartan store in Toronto

Kimberley Newport-Mimran (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani)

In an interview with the Toronto Star, Pink Tartan designer Kimberley Newport-Mimran revealed that she’s opening the label’s first store. The location: why, Yorkville, of course. Specifically, the 2,500-square-foot boutique will be at 77 Yorkville Avenue, in the adorable building that once was home to the Paisley Shop. No word on when the store will open.

• First Pink Tartan store to open in historic Yorkville building [Toronto Star]

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May 12, 2010 | 3:33 pm

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Just opened: Tabula Rasa gives vintage hunters a new reason to cross the Don

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The place: On the edge of Greektown sits Toronto’s newest cheap and cheerful clothing hub: a reason for west-end vintage hounds to cross the Don River.

The stuff: After slaving at the Le Château design table, owner Jennifer Park began reconstructing vintage pieces (a hem here, an asymmetrical sleeve there) that she now sells at Tabula Rasa along with basics from Ports, Ralph Lauren and Wayne Clark. Silk-lined double-breasted academy blazers, riding leggings with shiny fabric on the inner thigh and teeny beret cocktail hats from Toronto’s Le Petit Beret (made of out Park’s vintage scraps) keep the mix fresh for fashion-forward customers.

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April 13, 2010 | 11:48 am

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Just Opened: Judith and Charles boutique gives us another reason to visit Bayview Village

Jeanne Beker at the opening of Judith and Charles (Image: Glynnis Mapp)

When Parisian brand Teenflo was launched in Canada more than 20 years ago, it came into a market when women were looking for work attire to set them apart in a competitive marketplace. Today, women looking to float from the office to evening with ease should look to the well-edited selections at Judith and Charles, the new Bayview Village store from Teenflo co-founders Judith Richardson and Charles Le Pierrès.

Down the hall from the newly opened Andy Thê-Anh shop, the store stocks such brands as Paris favourite I Love My T’s, Velvet and 7 for All Mankind in addition to its own line of sharply tailored pantsuits, skirts and shift dresses. They’re wardrobe essentials for busy women, and if anyone is in need of a wardrobe that works with her busy schedule, it’s Jeanne Beker, who attended the launch. “I’ve worn this dress two days in a row,” said Beker of her little black Teenflo number. “Teenflo has been one of my favourite brands for years,” she said. “The fabrications and the subtle detailing always makes me feel sexy yet still put together and keeps me coming back to them.”

Judith and Charles, Bayview Village, 2901 Bayview Ave., 416-229-0918, teenflo.com.

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April 7, 2010 | 10:55 am

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Just Opened: Andy Thê-Anh has new stores in Yorkville and Bayview Village

The new Bayview Village boutique (Image: Glynnis Mapp)

When Andy Thê-Anh closed his only Toronto location at the beginning of the year, the splashy 83 Yorkville Avenue boutique, he promised two new stores in the near future. In the past two weeks, the Montreal designer, who’s known for creating polished womenswear, has opened a smaller Yorkville shop on Bellair Street and a store in Bayview Village, in addition to presenting his fall collection at LG Fashion Week.

The new stores show off the calculated rebranding of the label: runway-like sales floors, bright camera-ready ceiling and pot lights and very tidy, minimalist interiors. Each of the new shops offers colourful and geometrical lines not unlike Thê-Anh’s spring-summer collection. Thê-Anh is no novice to Toronto’s high-end geography, and the upscale stores are a way to reach his well-heeled customers. “Toronto is like New York’s sister city: you have all the important brands in the city, you have the socialites, the trend-setters—the cultural scene is every eclectic,” he says. “To me, Toronto is a showcase to the world.”

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March 18, 2010 | 10:59 am

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Just Opened: Evan Biddell’s Oz Studio Boutique

The interior of Oz retains a raw edge (Image: Glynnis Mapp)

From the outside, Oz looks like another one of Ossington’s trendy watering holes, but inside it’s clear that’s not the case. Instead, this new showroom-meets-art space will be home to live model photo shoots, new media installations, art shows and jam sessions.

“I wanted something different from just a flagship store. I wasn’t done being an artist,” says Evan Biddell, part owner and curator of the space, which opened on Tuesday. After being crowned the winner of Project Runway Canada’s first season, the Toronto-based designer has been prodded by fans for a store where they could find his clothes.

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March 2, 2010 | 12:13 pm

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CB2 furniture store taking over the Big Bop building

The rock ‘n’ roll vibe of the Big Bop, the raucous concert hall at Queen and Bathurst, will soon be erased, making way for sectionals, ottomans and accent pillows when CB2, Crate and Barrel’s younger, hipper branch, takes over the space. After much speculation about the location, CB2 has settled on the storied building to showcase its sleek and modern style in Toronto. Before the NIMBYs get up in arms, CB2 has promised to respect the character of the building during renovations before the store opens in early 2011. It’s exciting to have another great design store in Toronto, but even more exciting that Queen and Bathurst won’t house yet another condo development.

• Duke’s Cycle returning to Queen Street [Globe and Mail]
• Pre-construction: Toronto [CB2 blog]

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January 14, 2010 | 10:50 am

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Just Opened: Mjölk brings Scandinavian style to the Junction

Naoto Fukasawa dining table and chairs (Photo by Denise Dias)

With such stores as Post and Beam, Forever Interiors and Smash, the Junction is one of the city’s prime destinations for decorators and home decor junkies, but the addition of the Scandinavian lifestyle shop Mjölk in December is a good reason to revisit.

For the past year, the young owners, John Baker and Juli Daoust, have been sharing their favourite spaces, places and things on their blog, Kitka Design Toronto. But it was the challenge of furnishing their home that inspired them to open the store.

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January 4, 2010 | 10:31 am

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Thirty-four Toronto stores that didn’t make it through 2009

A huge rent increase forced Pages to close last summer (Photo by Neal Jennings)

Last year was for Toronto store owners what recent seasons have been like for the Blue Jays: difficult to endure and full of loss. Thanks to the most severe economic downturn in decades, the city said goodbye to many long-standing businesses, notably Dack’s, Syd Silver and Rotman’s Hat Shop and Haberdashery. There was a high turnover of businesses on Queen Street West and at Yonge and Eglinton, and the independent bookstore sector was hit hard. Here, a look back at 34 shops we lost in 2009.

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December 16, 2009 | 12:43 pm

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Just opened: Hugo Boss debuts Yorkville flagship

A look from the Boss Black fall collection

The Mink Mile’s newest resident is Hugo Boss. The office wear outfitter recently opened a store on Bloor Street, where Bemelmans bar once stood, and fêted it last week with an A-list party catered by North 44° and attended by the likes of Atom Egoyan, Suzanne Boyd and Shinan Govani.

The hoopla is over the company’s first Canadian flagship, which has been designed in a new Hugo Boss look to be adopted by all future flagships across the world. The space is awash in greys, creams and black, which makes for an impressive, if a bit sterile, first impression. Halfway through the shop is a grand circular staircase underneath a modernist chandelier of rectangular hanging lights.

The merchandise will appeal most to high-rolling businessmen with an affinity for golf. Downstairs, there are a rainbow of polos ($95) and a flashy golf bag ($550) and umbrella ($185); upstairs is the suiting boutique, which carries younger, slim silhouettes, as well as more traditional cuts. We spotted a gorgeous slim-cut blue wool blazer, in the vein of Etro and Paul Smith, with a light blue polka-dot lining ($695). Aspiring Gordon Gekkos can pick up the Boss brand humidor, loaded with three Cohibas and sporting a leather exterior ($2,895); it’s one of only two available in Canada.

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November 18, 2009 | 2:04 pm

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Yorkdale is not without its charms

Yorkdale-ltd-edition-charm It got Burberry before Bloor Street earlier this year, and now Yorkdale Shopping Centre has its own Tiffany bracelet. The sterling silver chain-link piece has a charm bearing the latitude and longitude of the mall, along with a grid map of the area. It’s on sale tomorrow (November 19) only, for $295, with the SickKids Foundation receiving a $34,000 donation from the proceeds. Watch out, Yorkville—with this news and plenty of parking spots, Yorkdale might be the new luxury goods hot spot for holiday shopping this winter.

Yorkdale charm bracelet, $295 at the Yorkdale customer service station. Yorkdale Shopping Centre, 3401 Dufferin St., 416-789-3261.

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November 2, 2009 | 4:43 pm

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Just Opened: Cupido adds sparkle to Bayview Village

Bayview Village's newest resident

After two successful years at Vaughan Mills, good friends Jeff Karadjian and Haigo Derian have opened a second location of their gleaming fine-jewellery shop, Cupido. The Bayview Village boutique opened in October and offers luxury labels, such as Hermès, alongside European brands new to Canada for a lust-inducing collection of interesting and inspired objets d’art for the body. Here are some of our favourite finds from the store.

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