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Philip Sparks
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Toronto’s best menswear stores right now
Where to find the most stylish duds for gents in the city
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Store Guide: Philip Sparks’s reimagined Junction workshop and retail outlet
Name: Philip Sparks Tailored Goods Inc. Sells: Bespoke suits, menswear and accessories Contact info: 130 Cawthra...
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Philip Sparks is closing his Ossington shop on Saturday, and then heading west
This Saturday, March 14 is your last chance to shop at local designer Philip Sparks ’s quaint off-Ossington outlet. The...
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The Find: Philip Sparks’ new line of perfectly retro sunglasses
Philip Sparks, collaboration with Jordan Paul Optianado. Philips Sparks Tailored Goods, 162 Ossington...
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The Find: vintage-inspired sandals from Philip Sparks’ first women’s shoe collection
Since clothier Philip Sparks started making men’s shoes a few seasons ago, female visitors to his Ossington Avenue boutique have...
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Store Guide: Gerhard Supply, a new Junction boutique selling Toronto-made menswear
Name: Gerhard Supply Sells: Men’s apparel and grooming supplies; some unisex garments Contact info: 2949 Dundas...
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The Look: the soft luxury of the velvet blazer is back in style
Possibly the universe’s most enduring and versatile fabric, velvet is back (again) and solving all our wardrobe...
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GALLERY: 15 Toronto shops with festive Christmas windows
Although December means shopping lists, crowded malls and frenzied buying sprees (our holiday gift guide can help), it’s worth...
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Street Style: 18 looks at the buyers and sellers at the Junction Flea
The monthly Junction Flea market, which occupied a dusty lot at Dundas and Keele all summer, has decamped to the Great Hall on...
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Toronto Fashion Week: Arthur Mendonça shows gorgeous saturated hues for spring/summer 2013
Toronto Fashion Week runs from October 22 to 26, in a large—and stylishly appointed—tent at David Pecaut Square. We’re...
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PARTY PAGES: Power Ball, where you will never run out of meat, alcohol or pretty things to look at
A party like the Power Plant gallery fundraiser Power Ball: Quarter-Life Crisis hasn’t happened in Toronto since the Dangerous...
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Introducing: Philip Sparks, Ossington’s latest shop for the dandiest men (and women)
Fresh off the success of his pop-up shop on Ossington (extended three months past its expected close date) and celebrating five...
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Dandy man Philip Sparks is opening up a real store (no more pop-up shops for him!)
Philip Sparks fans who are tired of waiting for that interminably slow elevator in the Burroughes building (or, Heaven...
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Weddings 2012: three refined suits that look great next to white
The no-fuss urban wedding calls for mod tailoring and casual accessories Vintagey details for a do up north or in the middle of...
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Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap 2012: 14 fashion finds
By Andrew D’Cruz, Matthew Hague, Rachel Heinrichs, Emily Landau, David Lawrason, Jason McBride, Mark Pupo, Peter Saltsman and...
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Six male style archetypes inspired by Toronto shop owners’ disdain for heritage dressing and fun socks
There are few manners of dress among men in Toronto, because so few are popular enough for independent retailers to endorse. We...
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25 awesome Toronto Boxing Day 2011 sales that will inspire you to don gay apparel (i.e. pants)
December 26 (or, in some parts, Boxing Day) is one of the worst days to leave the house, especially if the reason for leaving the...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 17 eye-grabbing offerings for the finest fellas
The modern man is more complicated than the slipper-wearing, pipe-smoking, paper-reading image of yesteryear. This year’s gift...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 27 impressive mid-range presents from $100 to $499
Sometimes it is hard to stick to a limit, because sometimes the gifts over $100 really are the perfect presents. We’ve found a...
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The Find: a warm and cozy winter jacket that can also be a travel pillow (if you need it to be)
There was an abundance of fur on the fall/winter runways, but Philip Sparks has proven that it doesn’t always need to be a big...
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Hey, everyone: Philip Sparks is joining the Danier collaboration game with fine leather goods for fellas
Danier continues its expansion into the fashion world beyond the Eaton Centre, announcing another round of designer...
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Oliver Spencer announces it will carry its women’s collection in Toronto, adding to this city’s heritage womenswear movement
Attention women who feel left out from the dandy man’s business plan: Oliver Spencer is bringing his womenswear to the streets...
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The 2011 Cashmere fashion show featured touchably soft cotton in support of breast cancer awareness
When we think of a toilet paper fashion show (though event organizers are careful to refer to it as “bathroom tissue”), our...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
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The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
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Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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