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☆ Issue #19 – Summer 2023 Arts & Culture Folio.YVR LUXURY LIFESTYLE

The VAG Launches Innovative & Celebratory ‘Fashion Fictions’ Exhibition

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverJuly 7, 2023August 24, 2023

Fashion Fictions is an ambitious exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery that explores experimental design practices at the intersection of fashion and other modes of cultural production. Featuring more than...

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LXR Launches Pre-Loved Vintage Luxury Handbag Rentals

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMay 8, 2022May 11, 2022

LXR, Canada’s premier socially-responsible omnichannel retailer of pre-loved vintage luxury handbags and accessories, is proud to announce the launch of their Rental Program. The largest rental program of pre-loved luxury...

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EcoLux☆Lifestyle: Sustainable Secondhand: Shop Luxury Resale & Save Your Style

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverApril 4, 2022October 25, 2022

Pre-loved, pre-owned, secondhand, hand-me-down, regifted. These are all timely and desirable words for a luxury-loving fashionista to have in their shopping vocabulary. It is no secret that a well-chosen handbag...

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EcoLux☆Lifestyle: ‘Mine & Yours’ Launches Luxe Yaletown Location with Posh Party

Helen Siwak - EcoFriendly Lifestyle ConsultantNovember 10, 2021November 29, 2022

Luxury resale lovers in Vancouver and online have adored Mine & Yours since the day they opened their first location in 2013. Owner and YVR It Girl Courtney Watkins has...

☆ Issue #12 - October 2020

Folio.YVR Issue #12: Laurin David Rockets from Hockey Rink to Runway

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverOctober 28, 2020June 25, 2022

With the final runways of Paris Fashion Week fading fast in the rear-view mirror, the fashion industry has emerged hopeful for having pulled off an event thought to be lost...

☆ Issue #11 - February 2020

FolioYVR Issue #11: Cameron Silver, Legendary Vintage Curator

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMarch 3, 2020April 20, 2020

It was 2012, and a Schiaparelli blowfish walking stick made the Met Gala arrivals come standstill. Wearing a Nicole Miller ‘Ticket Print’ suit, vintage fashion purveyor Cameron Silver broke the...

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EcoLux☆Lifestyle: Fashion Friday: Top Timeless Dresses of the Oscars

Helen Siwak - EcoFriendly Lifestyle ConsultantFebruary 22, 2019October 19, 2022

The Academy Awards have been showcasing not only theatrical talent but the dresses of the gorgeous women who wear them. Early award recipients like Audrey Hepburn, wore the ‘on trend’ designers...