Canada and cold go hand-in-hand so it’s no surprise that Canadian companies are among some of the coolest in coats. In a place that dips in temperature from October to April, keeping outerwear fresh, fashionable and functional is a must.
Take Luxton: the Toronto-based label has officially rebranded the one-piece snowsuit into a veritable fashion item, thanks to its sleek (seriously, it’s not even remotely bulky) quilted version. The jumpsuit hits the utility trend spot on but takes it from runway to real Canadian way thanks to a vegan down filling.
Looking to add some colour to your life? Vibrant coats, like a golden yellow look from Parjar or a soft-blue jacket from Kanuk, will ensure you stand out in a sea of black outerwear and brighten up long, dreary Canadian winter days.
Whether you’re looking for a sporty, cropped puffer or a dramatic floor-length statement coat a la Nicole Kidman in the The Undoing, there’s a winter warmer for every wardrobe. Below, our favourite Canadian-made coats below to help see you through the winter season in style.
Update: Today is the day – Jennifer Lopez has officially revealed the first eight products in her eponymous beauty brand.
The Grammy Award winner has bottled her signature glow in a variety of products – including a gel cream cleanser, multitasking mask, night cream, SPF 30 moisturizer, eye cream, complexion booster, serum and dietary supplement. Speaking with Bazaar UK about the launch, Lopez said, “I’ve been thinking about doing a skincare line probably for the past 20 years. You just kind of have to wait for the right time. I think I needed to become a little bit more realized in myself to have a philosophy on an actual beauty company: beauty from the inside out and the idea of beauty having no expiration date.” Lopez also revealed that the hero ingredient in the line is “olive oil” noting that it’s a beauty tradition passed down from her grandmother and mother.
She also touched upon the simplicity of the line, telling WWD: “There’s an expansion here that goes beyond specialized creams for different skin types. What I wanted to do for this initial line was to provide simple skin care that is about natural beauty and feeling great in your own skin.”
You’ll be able to get the JLo glow from January 1, when the line officially goes on sale through Jlobeauty.com, followed by Amazon and Sephora on January 14.
16/11: Good news, people – we’re just a few weeks away from being able to get the JLo glow (and with winter well and truly settling in, it honestly couldn’t come at a better time). Last night, Jennifer Lopez took to Instagram to reveal that her eponymous beauty brand, JLo Beauty, will launch on January 1, 2021.
The Grammy Award winner wrote on Instagram that this brand “isn’t just a passion project, it’s a 30-year dream.” She continued, “I can’t wait to share my skincare secrets with you!” In the accompanying clip, Lopez gave us a glimpse of the kind of empowering messaging her brand will have, saying, “As women people are so ready to write us off and I just kept waiting for that to happen and then I realized, no, I’m not going to let that happen. It’s about being limitless and powerful and understanding that beauty doesn’t really have an expiration date.”
JLo also launched the brand’s website and Instagram page, announcing that fans can get early access to the brand from December 8. She also shared two photos of her look from last night’s People’s Choice Awards so we suspect her new skincare products were at least partially responsible for her stellar awards night glow.
Watch this space.
Original (24/08): If you’ve long wanted to wake up looking like JLo, then you’re about to be one step closer to experiencing that. Over the weekend, Jennifer Lopez announced she is launching her own beauty brand by sharing a sunkissed selfie on Instagram with the caption, “Sunset glow…” followed by “#JLoBeauty coming soon.”
Whilst the Grammy Award-winning artist shared no other details, a closer look at the photo suggests that the line might include bronzer, highlighter and eyeshadow, as well as a neutral lip gloss. It’s not clear whether or not skincare will be part of the line-up but I would honestly buy 100 bottles of whatever JLo is putting on her face in a heartbeat. The post has received over one million likes in the 15 hours since it was posted, suggesting I am not the only one who feels this way.
The line won’t be Lopez’s first foray into beauty however – back in 2018 she collaborated on a line with Inglot Cosmetics. Plus, let us never forget the Glow by JLo fragrance era of 2002 (what a time that was).
It’s set to be a big few months for celeb-backed beauty brands with the launch of Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty range mere days away in Canada, as well as Alicia Keys’ forthcoming beauty brand in partnership with E.l.f. Beauty. The latter was announced earlier this month and though no specific product details were revealed, E.l.f. Beauty CEO Tarang Amin said that it is “a culmination of Keys’ personal skincare journey.”
There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that Princess Diana is a style icon, so it was natural that Emma Corrin’s portrayal of her in season four of TheCrown highlighted Lady Di’s notable wardrobe. After spending this past summer perfecting her famous bike short and sweatshirt look, we’re now looking to copy her other casual looks, like overalls and knits, as well as her glammed-up ’80s gowns and strong suiting.
Click through for seven style tips to take away from Princess Diana’s wardrobe in The Crown.
Photography courtesy of Netflix
Photography courtesy of Netflix
Photography courtesy of Netflix
Photography courtesy of Netflix
Photography courtesy of Netflix
Photography courtesy of Netflix
Photography courtesy of Netflix
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Statement Sleeves & Pearls
Puff sleeves and pearl provide drama grounded with a classic accessory. A dainty strand helps make the exaggerated sleeves sing.
A top trend of the season, the sweater vest is a layer that we can’t get enough of. Try the preppy knit piece over a ruffled blouse to get Princess Diana’s look.
Power up in a heritage check. Pair your plaid together for a full suit or pull the pieces apart for more versatility. Worn over a dress or jeans a checked blazer will take you anywhere.
When Michelle Audoin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and decided to undergo a double mastectomy that same year, she couldn’t help but wonder what she’d look like when it was all said and done, especially with the knowledge that darker skin is more susceptible to forming raised keloid scars. “That was a big concern for me. I wanted to see what reconstructive scars looked like on Black women,” she shares. But as Michelle looked through breast cancer materials provided to her and asked her health care team questions to help her prepare for surgery, she immediately found that the mainstream images and stories of patients only focused one demographic’s experience of the disease, drowning out her own lived reality as a woman of colour.
Michelle underwent her mastectomy without a clear picture of what to expect, an incredibly frustrating and dark experience that eventually pushed the mother to team up with Canadian charity Rethink Breast Cancer this year to create a tangible resource that spoke to Black bodies. Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project is a digital flip-book that sees eight Black Canadian women baring their physical and emotional scars of breast cancer in the hopes of helping others come to terms with their surgeries and spark a much-needed conversation around Black representation within the breast cancer community. Here, Michelle tells FASHION about her passion project.
On body image after her mastectomy:
“I was not prepared for the scars and the shape of my reconstructed breasts. I started looking at my body in sections — from above my chest and below the chest — avoiding looking at the reconstructed part because it felt like something foreign. Not having images of what other women of colour look like — not being able to have that conversation with my care team and see those images to help me process it — removes you even more from your own body. I felt cheated out of my body because of cancer. Accepting my body is still a work in progress post mastectomy. I still haven’t made a final decision on what I want my reconstructed breasts to look like because, again, those type of images are still not out there.”
From Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project. Courtesy of Rethink Breast Cancer.
On the motivation behind her powerful breast cancer project:
“To process my emotions and frustrations, I would journal about my feelings and what was bothering me. Then one night I was re-reading my notes and I just wished things had been different — I wished I had those images. I wished people had heard my story, my pain, my grief and my frustration. Then I thought: If I turned this all into some type of breast recognition project, what would I want people to know about my breasts and my story? A very traumatizing part at the time for me was that I was still nursing my son to sleep, and to be told that you have breast cancer, that you’re going to have surgery, that you’re going to have to wean your child off feeding immediately — I was loosing that bond, that relationship, that moment with my child. I just felt like those kinds of stories were not being heard and acknowledged. So I just started writing ideas up of what I’d wanted to see out there: I wanted other people to see my scars and know what these scars looked like on Black and Brown skin. I wanted other women of colour’s stories to be heard.”
From Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project. Courtesy of Rethink Breast Cancer.
On partnering with Rethink Breast Cancer:
“At that time, Rethink was putting themselves out there in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, committing to do better and acknowledging how they’d fallen short of serving Black, Indigenous and people of colour communities. So I decided to I reach out to them and expressed my concerns and offloaded all of my frustrations about my cancer experience. It first started off with a few Zoom calls then I got an email saying, ‘Take a look at this. This is what we propose.’ It was really gratifying because it felt like Rethink heard my story, heard my vision and they weren’t trying to change it in any way. They went off in the background and took care of things, like putting a call-out through their network to find these seven courageous women.”
From Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project. Courtesy of Rethink Breast Cancer.
On representation behind the scenes during the Uncovered photo shoot:
“I wanted to have a Black photographer, a Black makeup artist and a Black hairstylist behind the scenes because these are the types of things that are often overlooked within the Breast cancer experience. Like if you have Black textured hair and walk into a Look Good Feel Better workshop in the hospital, there’s a lack of wig options. Basically there are wigs that suit Caucasian hair types or you can wear a toque or head scarf. There’s a lot of identify wrapped up in women’s hair, so to loose your hair and not have any options to feel good about yourself is hard. The same goes for makeup. You’ll see from the stories shared in the Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project that that was an experience a lot of the women had: Not being able to have people make them feel beautiful through proper makeup treatments like their white counterparts can easily access. So it became really important for me to have that representation on set to uplift these women who are going through such a vulnerable experience.”
From Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project. Courtesy of Rethink Breast Cancer.
On the cathartic experience of the photo shoot and the breast cancer community’s response:
“I was the first one to be photographed and when I walked in, I thought was going to be sick. I wondered, ‘What did I get myself into?’ But after I was made to feel beautiful by having someone play with my hair and makeup, I felt more empowered in my own skin. And as I watched all the other women come on set, I found that they all kind of walked in like me: unsure, reserved, nervous. But then to see them get their hair and makeup done and then get photographed, their expressions as they walked off set were like night and day. They too felt empowered, beautiful — they looked overjoyed.
From Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project. Courtesy of Rethink Breast Cancer.
The response from the breast cancer community on social media has been really empowering as well and speaks to the lack of representation and the need for a resource like this in the community. Even my plastic surgeon reached out and acknowledged that, yes, this is a big hole in the community and we need more representation. That was a really solidifying moment for me.”
On her long-term hopes for Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project:
“I want it to reach far and wide. I want it to spark conversations in cancer care centres with the plastic surgeons, nurse practitioners and the cancer care community agencies. I think it’s shinning a light on the current Eurocentric face of breast cancer and that the experiences of women of colour are very different from their white counterparts. My hope is that, moving forward, cancer care centres will be able to give this resource to their patients of colour so that they feel less alone in the experience.”
The entire Uncovered: A Breast Recognition Project resource is available on the Rethink Breast Cancer website. For more stories like this one, read our previous My Story columns.
It’s the last month of the year, and you know what that means. It’s when we start looking back at the time gone by, and the pop culture moments that defined the year. From Drake’s viralToosie Slide dance to Justin Trudeau’s “moistly” comments, there was a lot that dominated the internet this year. (And in a year of social distancing, it helped us all feel connected.) Read on for the top trending videos, songs, podcasts and artists of 2020 in Canada.
Top Trending Videos
YouTube’s Top Trending video list offers a look back at the biggest creators, moments and videos of the year. The #1 spot went to former NASA engineer Mark Rober, who demonstrated via an eight-part series how to create a squirrel-proof bird feeder. A remix of Justin Trudeau’s “speaking moistly” comments took the #3 spot, with Dave Chapelle, Paris Hilton and 10-year-old America’s Got Talent contestant Roberta Battaglia also making the Top 10 list.
1. Mark Rober, Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder
2. Dream, Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters GRAND FINALE
3. Anonymotif, Justin Trudeau Sings “Speaking Moistly”
4. Netflix is a Joke, 8:46 – Dave Chappelle
5. NikkieTutorials, I’m Coming Out.
6. America’s Got Talent, Golden Buzzer: 10-Year-Old Roberta Battaglia Sings Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” – America’s Got Talent 2020
7. MrBeast, $250,000 Influencer Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament
8. JeffreeStar, We Broke Up.
9. Dude Perfect, Quarantine Stereotypes
10. Paris Hilton, The Real Story of Paris Hilton | This is Paris Official Documentary
Top Music Videos
2020 was the Year of Justin Bieber and Drake, with both musicians releasing multiple chart-topping hits. Music videos for two of Bieber’s singles—Yummy and Intentions—made it to the Top 10 list, while Drake had three music videos on the list this year: Life is Good (at the #1 spot), Toosie Slide and Laugh Now, Cry Later.
1. Future, Life is Good ft. Drake
2. Tekashi 6ix9ine, Gooba
3. Justin Bieber, Yummy
4. Eminem, Godzilla ft. Juice WRLD
5. Sidhu Moose Wala, Old Skool
6. Cardi B, WAP ft. Megan Thee Stallion
7. Drake, Toosie Slide
8. DaBaby, ROCKSTAR ft Roddy Ricch
9. Justin Bieber, Intentions ft. Quavo
10. Drake, Laugh Now, Cry Later
Top Podcasts
Podcasts that appear on both Spotify and Apple’s year-end lists are Call Her Daddy, a sex advice and comedy podcast, and Stuff You Should Know, a podcast hosted by two former senior editors at HowStuffWorks.com. Other shows that made the Top 10 list of most-listened-to podcasts in 2020 include New York Times’The Daily, The Michelle Obama Podcast, and CBC’s Uncover podcast.
Spotify’s Top Trending Podcasts of 2020 in Canada
The Joe Rogan Experience
Call Her Daddy
TED Talks Daily
The Michelle Obama Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Apple’s Top Trending Podcasts of 2020 in Canada
Call Her Daddy
The Daily (The New York Times)
Spittin’ Chiclets
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Canadian True Crime
Stuff You Should Know
Unlocking Us
This American Life
Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations
Uncover (CBC Podcasts)
Patty Hearst was a young heiress living a quiet life studying art history at college when one Monday evening her home was invaded, she was kidnapped, and her life took a totally unforeseen turn that she would have trouble explaining for years to come.https://t.co/0kwvf2E998
Spotify has unveiled the top artists, albums, songs and playlists that dominated their platform this year. Unsurprisingly, Drake, The Weeknd, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish took the top spots on the Canadian charts, with The Weeknd’s single “Blinding Lights” topping charts as the most-streamed song in Canada and globally. Read on for the artists, songs and albums most-listened to by Canadians in 2020.
Most-Streamed Artists
Drake
Juice WRLD
Eminem
The Weeknd
Post Malone
Most-Streamed Female Artists
Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish
Ariana Grande
Halsey
Dua Lipa
Most-Streamed Songs
“Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd
“The Box” by Roddy Ricch
“Roses – Imanbek Remix” by Imanbek, SAINt JHN
“Dance Monkey” by Tones and I
“ROCKSTAR (feat Roddy Ricch)” by DaBaby, Roddy Ricch
Most-Streamed Albums
Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke
After Hours, The Weeknd
Hollywood’s Bleeding, Post Malone
Legends Never Die, Juice WRLD
Eternal Atake (Deluxe) – LUV vs. The World 2, Lil Uzi Vert
Canadian actor Elliot Page announced today that they are transgender and non-binary, meaning that their gender identity is neither man nor woman. Their pronouns are he/him and they/them. (This article will use they to refer to Page.)
“I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self,” wrote Page, who currently stars in The Umbrella Academy and was nominated for an Oscar for their role in Juno, in a post shared across their social media pages. “I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive.”
The 33-year-old Halifax-born actor also shared that their joy felt fragile, citing “staggering” statistics about the “insidious” and “cruel” discrimination directed toward trans people. “In 2020 alone it has been reported that at least 40 transgender people have been murdered, the majority of which were Black and Latinx trans women,” they said.
Nick Adams, director of transgender media for GLAAD, thanked Page for being a longtime outspoken advocate LGBTQ people. “He will now be an inspiration to countless trans and non-binary people,” said Adams. “All transgender people deserve the chance to be ourselves and to be accepted for who we are. We celebrate the remarkable Elliot Page today.”
Page’s wife, 26-year-old Emma Portner, a Canadian dancer and choreographer who has been married to Page since 2018, wrote how proud she was of Page in an Instagram post. “Trans, queer and non-binary people are a gift to this world,” she said. “I also ask for patience & privacy but that you join me in the fervent support of trans life every single day. Elliot’s existence is a gift in and of itself. Shine on sweet E. Love you so much.”
