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☆ Issue #24 - April 2024 High Fashion & Couture

Oakridge Park Announces Luxury Lessees Maison Margiela, Miu Miu & More

Kate PickeringApril 19, 2024April 19, 2024

Vancouver's Oakridge Park is Canada's most significant redevelopment endeavour, is set to redeﬁne the city's retail landscape, unveiling the inaugural brands that will be part of this world-class destination –...

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Luxury Industry Creative/Art Director Aradhna Singh Joins the ELL Comms Team as Associate Editor

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverOctober 24, 2023December 15, 2023

PRESS RELEASE: Vancouver, BC - October 24, 2023: Appointment of Aradhna Singh as Associate Editor at EcoLuxLuv Marketing & Communications Inc. (ELL Comms) EcoLuxLuv Marketing & Communications Inc, the publisher...

☆ Issue #19 – Summer 2023 Folio.YVR High Fashion & Couture

Demi-Couture Designer Stevie Crowne Takes Repurposing to Next Level

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

Over a decade ago, a young designer started making waves in the Vancouver fashion scene. Armed with a bag of thrifted garments, scissors, spray paint, glue, thread, needles and pins,...

☆ Issue #18 - Spring 2023

Lyle XOX: I. THEY. MINE. YOURS… Gallery Jones Exhibition

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMay 12, 2023July 1, 2023

Consumerist culture is filled with superfluous objects, many of which are passed the point of use. For Lyle Reimer, aka Lyle XOX, these discarded objects are more than their materials—they...

☆ Issue #13 - Winter 2020/21

Folio.YVR ☆ Issue #13 ☆ Pasotti Ombrelli : A Fantastical Weapon Against the Weather

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMay 22, 2022May 22, 2022

Proudly bearing the Made in Italy label, Pasotti Ombrelli, the world's finest umbrella's reflects the hardworking artisan's skill and endurance. From his office in Castellucchio, Italy, Nicola Begotti reflects on...

☆ Issue #11 - February 2020

FolioYVR Issue #11: Ladurée by Matthew Kenney is a Vegan Pastry Paradise

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMarch 6, 2020April 20, 2020

Having been tempted by Ladurée on Robson Street too many times to count, and having to endure meetings where my companions gorged on their famous French Toast, it was with...

☆ Issue #10 - January Top 10

Folio.YVR 2019 / Top 10 Read: #9 Matlo Atelier Launches French Kiss

Coleman Pete AuthorFebruary 5, 2020December 26, 2020

Vancouver-based designer Jason Matlo is turning heads with his newly rebranded Matlo Atelier made-to-measure line, the most recent of the successful fashion designer’s work in fashion for women and men....

☆ Issue #10 - January Top 10

Folio.YVR 2019 / Top 10 Read: #5 Miriam Aroeste Celebrates the Ethereal HUMO

Folio.YVR StaffFebruary 5, 2020April 20, 2020

Bold, bright, and full of meaning. The works of Miriam Aroeste invoke powerful emotions with unidentifiable shapes and bursts of colour. In her latest collection, Humo, the colours seem to...

☆ Issue #06 - September

Folio.YVR Issue #6: The Divine Diner en Blanc Captivates

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverDecember 25, 2019

For many in Vancouver, the day that July turns into August signals a pursuit for the perfect all-white outfit. Even if it is only worn once in the year, it...