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FASHION Something Blue
No matter the season, the versatility and durability of denim makes it perfect for transitional wear, and on Spring 2023 runways, designers further evolved the wardrobe staple in a big way. At Bluemarine, Y2K boldness was on full display with early-aughts-inspired looks dominating the collection, including a denim miniskirt layered over wide leg denim trousers, and floor-grazing denim dresses paired with micro denim purses. Elsewhere, Jacquemus debuted more tailored straight-leg denim with structured straw-coloured woven tops, while Burberry opted for more exaggerated silhouettes with their range of stonewashed denim ensembles.
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Fearless Exploration
For the first time in Canada, the work of award-winning German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans will be on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO starting this April). The exhibit, entitled “To Look Without Fear,” will feature ecstatic images of nightlife, sensitive portraits, architectural studies, documents of social movements, still lifes, astronomical phenomena, and cameraless abstractions. Fascinated by music and performance, the exhibition includes Tillmans’s first full-length album, Moon in Earthlight (2021) and rarely seen video works, including Instrument (2015), a split- SMAGAZINEOFFICIAL.COM
screen projection, that shows the artist twice—as his body dances to the beat his own feet make on the floor, and as a shadow cast on the wall. His ongoing project “Truth Study Center” will also be on display.
“Wolfgang Tillmans: To Look Without Fear” is on view at Art Gallery of Ontario from April 7 to October 1, 2023.
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BEAUTY
Feminine Fragrance
Carolina Herrera continues to expand its olfactory
offerings with the introduction of its newest eau de parfum, Good Girl Blush. With this scent, Carolina Herrera explores the duality intrinsic to every woman by combining scents
that might seem opposing but work together to create a full- bodied, well-rounded scent. Starting with sustainably sourced ingredients and a base of upcycled sensual vanilla, Good
Girl Blush also has a delicate hint of peony, upcycled rose water, and a centre of radiant ylang ylang. For this new vegan formula fragrance, perfumer Quentin Bisch was inspired by the iconic stiletto bottle itself. “The heel is the strength of
the shoe, and I imagined the vanilla as the strength of the fragrance,” he said. Good Girl Blush is sensual and strong, instinctive and intelligent, romantic and inspired—just like the women that wear it.
Carolina Herrera Good Girl Blush is available at Hudson’s Bay, Sephora, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Jean Coutu.
Burberry Spring/Summer 2023: photo courtesy of Burberry. Carolina Herrera Good Girl Blush: photo courtesy of
Carolina Herrera. Wolfgang Tillmans, blue self-portrait shadow, 2020. Image by Wolfgang Tillmans. Courtesy of the
artist, David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, and Maureen Paley, London.