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FOLIO.YVR

Celebrating West Coast Luxury Lifestyle | Elevated Consciousness

Category / ☆ Issue #40 – March 2026

baja expeditions, luxury travel, once in a lifetime experience, mexico, baja california, whale watching, helen siwak, folioyvr

Where the Whales Come to Find Us: Baja Expeditions Adventure in San Ignacio Lagoon

“A life lived comfortably, is not a life fully lived.” Sit with that for a moment. Not because it is provocative — though it is — but because it demands an honest reckoning with how much of what we call luxury is simply avoidance dressed in thread count and room service. San Ignacio Lagoon, deep...

fecal matter, fecales matieres, montreal designers, paris fashion week, helen siwak, folioyvr, bc, yvr, luxury, haute couture, ready to wear, france

Paris Fashion Week: Matières Fécales: The Ones Who Rewrote the Rules

With their debut Paris Fashion Week collection The Other, Montreal’s Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran did not just arrive on fashion’s biggest stage — they reshaped it. There is a particular kind of poetic justice in the fact that we first met Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran not at a show,...

damara day spa, pan pacific vancouver, luxury hotel, west coast luxury, luxury lifestyle, helen siwak, folioyvr, bc, vancouver

Find Your Hideaway: DAMARA Day Spa at Pan Pacific Vancouver

Downtown Vancouver has a remarkable ability to reward those who know where to look. Tucked into the Cruise Ship Level of Pan Pacific Vancouver, DAMARA Day Spa exists quietly on the waterfront like a secret that the most self-aware women in this city have already discovered. For those who live downtown, work downtown, or are...

pan pacific hotel, damara day spa, luxury lifestyle, west coast luxury, vancouver, bc, folioyvr, helen siwak

The Art of Staying In: A Staycation at Pan Pacific Vancouver

Some hotels offer a room for the night. Pan Pacific Vancouver offers something considerably more considered — a recalibration. Perched at the edge of Canada Place on the Coal Harbour waterfront, its soaring white sails a landmark on Vancouver’s skyline for four decades, the Pan Pacific has long occupied a category of its own. Not...

paradise events, liting chan, folioyvr, luxury weddings, helen siwak, vancouver, bc, west coast luxury

CELEBRATE: Paradise Events Presents: Linda & Jared Forever at Swaneset Bay

There are weddings that mark a date on a calendar, and there are weddings that mark something deeper — a turning point, a beginning so fully realized that the memory of it stays with you long after the last dance. Linda and Jared’s celebration at Swaneset Bay Resort & Country Club on a luminous day...

the geary house, michelle raymond, luxury real estate, vancouver, bc, yvr, helen siwak, folioyvr

The Geary House: This 1908 West End Heritage Home Is Vancouver’s Most Extraordinary Restoration

The click of the iron gate is the first thing. Small, deliberate, precise — a sound that signals, even before the path unfolds before you, that what lies ahead belongs to a different order of things entirely. The stone pillars stand as quiet sentinels, and beyond them, framed by mature trees and the deep blue...

vancouver art gallery, vag, fine art, contemporary art, helen siwak, folioyvr, vancouver, bc, yvr

The Vancouver Art Gallery Opens Its Treasure Chest to the City

What do a 19th-century Haida totem pole, an Andy Warhol silkscreen, and a super-8 film shot in 1984 have in common? They all belong to you — or rather, to all of us. And right now, the Vancouver Art Gallery is making that shared inheritance more visible, more alive, and more worth your time than...

ola volo, mural artist, vancouver, montreal, helen siwak, folioyvr, bc, yvr, west coast luxury

Ola Volo: The Woman Who Paints for the World

At the corner of Burrard Street and Melville Avenue in downtown Vancouver, a queen rises. She does not demand attention so much as draw it — the way certain presences do, quietly and then all at once. She is nearly 13 metres tall, crowned and ornamented in the visual language of Central Asian folk tradition,...

LITING CHAN, PARADISE EVENTS INC, LUXURY WEDDING DESIGNER, VANCOUVER, BC, YVR, FOLIOYVR, HELEN SIWAK

Liting Chan: Where Vision Becomes Ceremony

There are event designers who execute a brief, and then there are those who rewrite what a brief can mean. Liting Chan belongs firmly to the second category. As the creative force behind Paradise Events — one of Canada‘s most distinguished luxury event and wedding design studios — Chan has spent a decade building something...

marche mon pitou, jesse jonathan hawes, triet duong, french bakery, folioyvr, helen siwak, vancouver, BC, yvr

Marché Mon Pitou: The Warmest Corner of Fairview

Before there was a café, there was a farmers market tent. Before that, a flight and a fruit crumble. And before any of it, there was a grandmother named Gabrielle who moved through a kitchen the way some people move through a room full of friends — with warmth so instinctive it left a mark...