Nella Bella FW 2012 Collection @ Urbanspace Gallery

Last night went to Nella Bella’s FW 2012 media reception. I’ve been taking NellaBella bags on all my travels, bike rides, festivals & fun for the last two years. They’re got lots of different shapes & styles this year.

One of the designers for this collection, Andreas Kyriakos who started working with them at 15, he’s 16 now, but still,  he designed a whole batch of beautiful things. I got to catch up with a few really lovely girls I hadn’t seen in a while.  Thanks Raymi, you babe, for photos and Tarek for the invite. Can’t wait to get something new and BRIGHT! Bring on, SPRING on!

My current fav is the KIEV bag in black (in photo but hard to see). It fits my 11 Macbook Air, camera and a few other necessities. Comes in handy when’re always on the go/working! 

Shirt: Joe Fresh
Cardi: GAP
Pants: Bench – shopping trip!
Hair: Ken Murphy Color Bug, Goody Accessories
Shoes: Ego & Greed

One things I love about clothes is the stories they tell. Links to the above items go to past posts wearing. Archives rule. Crashed my bike the day I got the Joe Fresh shirt, ordered shoes from solestruck.com. Got GAP  cardi over holidays cruising vintagey shops in Cambridge with Mum.

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Photos via WE REPRESENT THE LOLLIPOP GUILD  on RaymitheMinx.com

 

Walked home home with the Septembre & Bella. Made .gif with Loopcam, from Berlin! Check out Jessica’s post & pic here. It was really fun. Good night. Nice to see beautiful bags and smiling faces. The food was excellent and catered by The Daily Bread Food Bank’s catering campany. They put all the proceeds from catering, right back in.

Been busier than ever planning and preparing things for SXSW. We have a new blog coming. I’m super excited. Let’s do this.  😉

<3 CASIE

 

 

SPRING TEASER, PLEASER

Its lovely outside today but tonight we’re getting a snow storm and winter will be back here.. I’m made the most of a beautiful day by biking on a Bixi downtown. Weeeee!

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Jacket: Mubaa leather, Holts
Shoes: Ego & Greed, Solestruck.com
Shirt: Joe Fresh
Overalls: H&M
Glasses: Vintage from NZ
Lipstick: Kate for Rimmel in Rosetto

Today TWO crazy awesome things happened today… (remember when I used to ALWAYS say ‘crazy awesome’) … Anyhoo, CTS, my fav vintage shop ever, reopened today and it looks SO NICE. Also, Lauren and I also went to a Mill. The best mill in town!



THE YOUNG INFLUENCERS CONFERENCE

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Hi from the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library. I love this space! I caught the morning keynote by Shane Smith, CEO & Founder of Vice. Panels are full of great people. My talk is “Authenticity and Word-of-Mouth via Social Media” featuring three other bloggers in fashion, photography, and comics.

Follow along my tweets and #YIC12. I you have any questions, ask me!

Have an awesome day!

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YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS IN MY HARD DRIVE

Man I love this guy. Rick Mercer for the win. Imagine the government could peep in your comouter any second.t\ The first thing that it would kill in me is creativity. I love my computer and everyone has some things we don’t want to show others. Mercer’s confident us Canadians aren’t stupid enough to let the Tories peak into our hard drives without a warrant. He might just be right.

Like Rick said “that’s why we close our blinds at night”. Well done. Proud to be Canadian.

P.S. Check out these TOTALLY INSANE AWESOME book carvings. Yes, books.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR HEART

Love a Heart from Chris Luckhardt on Vimeo.

Instagram photo by @ValTorontoGal @ The Hideout

I did Jump Rope for Heart and was on skipping demo team fror the Heart & Stroke Foundation when I was a kid. We travelled around to schools doing routines and raising awareness about heart disease. February is Heart Month, heart disease and stroke take 1 in 3 Canadians before their time and it is the #1 killer of women.

Thanks for everyone who came out and donated to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada for Love a Heart. Posted a bunch of photos last week in this post. For info on volunteering or donating visit heartandstroke.com. Be part of the change. MAKE DEATH WAIT 🙂

Semaine de Mode 2012

See highlights on the Ottawa Fashion Week blog.

 

NOW THIS IS WHAT WE CALL DOWNTIME

NOW THIS IS WHAT WE CALL DOWNTIME

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Sun on the face. Senators only.

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Reflection.

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Welcome to Canada.

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Baby blue.

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“I’m melting”

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The Blondetourage: expressed as neon wolves made of ice at Winterlude 2012.

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Full circle.

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Walked from my hotel down to the mall, through the market, around Parliament, through Winterlude, across the canal and back. Kevin was a great tour guide and I posted all kinds of beautiful things you won’t see here I saw on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, Keek, Facebook and a 360 view from Parliament Hill. It’s fairly mild and the sun felt good on my face. I will remember this day forever.

Don’t have hair & makeup till 7:30pm, it’s nap time. Might watch a movie too.

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A LIFESTYLE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

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Ladies your car is here!

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View from my room at the Westin Ottawa.

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Once I got settled in I did what I always do when I get to a hotel, jump on the bed, jump into a robe, then jump into bed.

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I wanted to stay there but we it was time for dinner then shows.

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Cute boy in red pants.

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Rachel Sin & her models.

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Weekend Tune: “Comeback Kid” by Sleigh Bells

Happy weekend my lovelies! This week I bring you Sleigh Bells, a kick ass duo from New York who take noise pop to the next level. Their video for “Comeback Kid” is all kinds of awesome, so grab your leather studded jacket and get ready…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXP4Rhu5pJo

Their second album Reign Of Terror comes out this Tuesday (the 21st) and they’re currently on tour stopping by Toronto March 26th! See you there?

Enjoy!
xo Kate

First Class Ticket to Capitol Hill

Snapped this last night just before my talk at The Working Group. The sun sets so beautifully on Queen Street West. I love Toronto.

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I thought I was going to miss my train this morning. Luckily, I thought it was at 6am but it was really at 6:40am so I had more than enough time. Unfortunately I rushed out of the house and my luggage is all smushed in a bad and I only have two pairs of shoes. TRAGEDY! The platform was cold and dark but I sat down in my first class seat and went back to sleep.

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Sitting on the train to Ottawa now with Gabrielle Miller (Corner Gas/Call Me Fitz), Gail McInnes (TDot TV), and Cory Lee (Degrassi). We’ve got rehearsals this afternoon for tomorrow’s “Runway for a Better Way” charity show in support of Unicef. Cory and I are wearing Canadian designer Rachel Sin who’s an architect turned fashion designer. I slept most of the way here.

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Last time I took the train it was meant to be a short little ride but we got stuck by flooding or snow and I made this video; 420 consecutive photos, one train ride. Via Rail won’t let you watch videos or “download big files” so I’m unable to embed it. One of my most fav things I’ve ever created. I’d love to make a new one on the way home Monday.

There was a Zombie Girl on my money last night.

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I hear a limo is picking us up when we arrive then we head to rehearsals for 1pm. At 2pm I’ve have an interview for a book about Canadian media. So much going on I feel like a whirlwind but I love every minute of it. Last night at the SM Cafe closing party for Social Media Week they asked what tips we had for people to take away, my tip is below 🙂

Hope your weekend is off to a great start. We arrive in Ottawa in ten minutes and it’s bright & sunny out.

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