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This new format for the Snap Judgments column! So much more room to share our feelings with the world in three sentences or fewer. And pictures!
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The season finale of Breaking Bad, which somehow gets better with each passing season. The long-anticipated showdown between Walter White and Gustavo Fring was as, er, explosive as we hoped. There is only one season left, though thankfully it will be a longer-than-usual 16 episodes.
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The high costs of having a friend who lives in the moment
J O N AT H A N G O L D S T E I N My Week
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Mark Fast. Not only for his experimentation with knitwear but for his gutsy approach to making his voice heard on the world stage.
JEANNE BEKER,
MARK FAST
Mark Fast. Everything is one-of-a-kind. And Eran Elfassy and Elisa Dahan of Mackage. They took winter coats to a new level.
Shes an artist first of all. I love her work. And Rad Hourani: If you see his work, you will understand everything.
Its amazing that hes one of the older designers and that hes the most edgy.
DSquared2 have their finger on the pulse of the fashion world. Also, Greta Constantine. The way they wield fabric, one gets a sense of pure, feminine sensuality.
TV personality, picks
JAY MANUEL,
THURSDAY I show up to Jackies tea party with a box of Mae Wests under my arm. I guess with PETA having made its crackdown, I say, its now up to us humans to reclaim the tea party from circus chimpanzees. PETA wouldnt let you serve this crap to a monkey, she says, taking the snack cakes and chucking them onto the kitchen counter. The guests children ransack them and run upstairs. Kids are lucky. They get to explore the whole house and find out what the hosts are really about. They tear through drawers and search under beds, while we poor adults are chained to the living room with only the occasional trip to the bathroom for a quick rummage through the medicine cabinet to learn whats what. I sit on the couch, eavesdropping on a conversation about annuities, and wishing I had a Mae West. FRIDAY I call up Howard to tell him Saturdays picnic is on. The weathers going to be gorgeous, I say. Spoiler alert! Howard yells. When giving away whats going to happen, have the decency to first say spoiler alert. I thought that was only for movie plots, I say. Not the weather. From now on I want to keep everything a surprise, he says. I dont want to live my life with one foot in the future, because thatll mean having only one foot in the present. And that would leave you without a foot in the nut house? I ask. Im so committed to this, he says, unimpeded, that Im not even going to use the future tense. You just did. Did I? he asks. Well, maybe I dont know what the future tense is. Good luck with it, I say. I have to go shopping for the picnic, so Ill see you later. Please, he says before hanging up, dont tell me that! Personally, I love thinking about the future. I dont think Ive ever thrown out a single fortune cookie fortune. I dont go so far as to fold them into my wallet, but I do usually hang on to them in some way, maybe tossing them into a sock drawer or placing them in the pages of a book Im reading. Theres something about throwing one out that feels like an act of bad faith, because all prophecies about the future should be taken seriously even if theyre prophecies that come in cookies at the end of a meal of moo goo gai pan. I also love the idea of serendipitously re-discovering these predictions of the future in the future holding them in my hands and thinking about what once could have been, but never was, yet might, one day, still be. The future often feels larger, more boundless, than the past, or the present. Perhaps it needs to be because it is where we store our hopes. At the grocery store, the first thing I throw into my cart is a box of Mae Wests. The second is a bag of fortune cookies. Spoiler alerts ahead, Ill tell Howard, slipping a few into his hands. Jonathan Goldstein is the host of WireTap on CBC Radio One, airing Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. Follow him on Twitter @J_Goldstein.
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Complexgeometries. Hes always innovating with new cuts, new fabrics and hes using new technology.
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Our new monthly chart begins with a search for the most innovative fashion designers in Canada
By Melissa Leong
Douglas Coupland displays a certain fearlessness in his evolution as an artist. He boldly takes on new mediums and takes it to another level
Her discerning eye guarantees that the final product looks elegant, effortless and perfectly balanced.
Budman. The personal intricate marketing story that the boys built around the [EARTHnegativeshoe], forever instilled a style of branding that was as yet unheard of in Canada.
ROBIN KAY, president of the Fashion Design Council of Canada, picks Don Green and Michael
DSquared2. Dan and Dean continually evolve season-to-season, all the while staying true to their Canadian roots.
What hes doing reflects himself and his own visions and not necessarily following what other people are doing.
His design aesthetic has matured amazingly over the seasons and his presence in the global fashion market is stronger than ever.
I met Cristina a couple years ago where she was showing dresses that had these coral reef looking flower like embellishments all over them. It ended up being lead shards she had thrown on to the dresses with magnets sewn inside.
World celebrates Michael Jackson the only way it knows how: by listening to Cee Lo and wishing the Black Eyed Peas were there.
121 years in jail for the creep who forced world to look at nude pictures of ScarJo? Seems fair.
Whitney Houston refuses to buckle up on an airplane. If you did it, itd be dumb. For her, the operative four-letter d-word is diva. Sorry, thems the rules.