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The Discipline Behind the Grace: Chan Hon Goh’s Next Act

Chan Hon Goh has spent four decades chasing a single standard: excellence that never stops moving. Long before her recent appointment, she was a child in a Vancouver studio, absorbing correction after correction with a focus that set her apart even then. “When I reflect on what it means to become Vice President of the...

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Danny Singer: The Main Street Project x A Prairie Vision

Danny Singer photographs the entire main streets of small prairie towns. Not a building here, a storefront there, but the whole street, stitched together from as many as one hundred and fifty sequential images into a single seamless panorama. Every structure is shot straight on. No angle, no drama, no cheating the perspective. The effect...

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A Bold Modern Silhouette Rises Amid a Century of Character Homes

On a street lined with century-old character homes and mature trees, one property breaks from the pattern entirely. Clad in dark cladding with warm cedar accents, 91 E 40th Avenue rises against its surroundings with a striking, angular presence. Built in 2022 by Simplicity Homes, with architecture by b Squared Architecture Inc. and interiors by...

Champlain’s Estate Collection Arrives for the Season Ahead

Champlain returns this season with its fall Estate Collection, the latest chapter in a label built on a clear premise: menswear that closes the gap between the boardroom and the backcountry. The lineup spans four categories — Polos, Cardigans, Sweaters, and Outerwear — each engineered for the shift in seasons and designed to carry a...

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Paradise Events Presents: A Day of Everything They Chose Together

Some love stories begin with a spark. Theirs began with a gift exchange. Serena and Li met in 2010, when Serena’s grandmother sponsored Li, then a high school student, to come to Canada. Their families became close, and at every birthday and holiday that followed, the parents settled on a simple system for exchanging gifts...

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Writing West Coast Luxury Into the Global Record

This Media originally published on TTLNews Korea HERE. When the World Luxury Chamber of Commerce invited luxury leaders to help define their industry in their own words, the response came from every continent. From Canada’s West Coast, the sole voice selected to co-author the inaugural World Luxury Day Manifesto belongs to Helen Siwak, founder of...

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From Seminary to Silver Gelatin: The Fifty-Year Career of Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna was on course to become a priest. Raised in a working-class Irish-Catholic family in Lancashire, England, he attended a Catholic seminary school until 1972, when a childhood love of art pulled him in another direction. He has since spent fifty years working at dawn and through the night, leaving his shutter open for...

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BC Sips & Stories: The Resilient Soul of Black Hills Estate Winery

Stretching along the sun-drenched benchlands of Oliver, British Columbia, the Black Sage Bench has long been considered the premier terroir for big, expressive red wines in Canada. At the centre of this reputation sits Black Hills Estate Winery, which since its inception has stood out as a beacon of precision, minimal-intervention winemaking, and relentless dedication...

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Peter Marino Continues to Guide Chanel Forward with Design

CHANEL‘s new Oakridge Park boutique is, without question, one of the most striking retail spaces to open in this city in years. Peter Marino‘s design unfolds across 750 square metres, room by room: luminous white marble, black lava stone, gilded accents catching the light beside deep burgundy tones and blush finishes. It would be easy...

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Joséphine’s Enduring Reign: Chaumet Arrives at Oakridge

Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais arrived in Paris from Martinique already shaped by contradiction. She survived imprisonment during the Revolution, buried a first husband, and later stood beside Napoleon as he crowned her, only to be set aside years afterward for want of an heir. Through each turn, she treated fashion as a form of authorship...