NO PARKING IN 1969

Aside from the aversion to skinny jeans, pants or skinny anything lately, I think one of my style challenges in definitely casual Fridays or dressing up for the weekend. Sometimes, I don’t have a smooth transition between corporate work outfits and casual yet cool non-work day ensemble. Truth be told, I can can get ready…

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COLOUR ME BLUE: COBALT BLUE

While the fall season has definitely made its presence known this week, I’m trying to cling on to the last bits of warmth and still refuse to wear tights and long boots. Mother Nature is quite a tease you see, the weekend before this was absolutely gorgeous that patios re-opened and summer outfits re-mixed! I…

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DO YOU HEAR THAT ECCO IN THE WOODS

When we arrived in Mont Tremblant, I was immediately captivated by the beautiful sight, the magical changing colours of the leaves that I stood there in awe, once again, as if I’ve never been there before. Truth be told, Mont Tremblant is perhaps one of our most visited mountain resort as we’ve spent countless special…

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@20YS FEATURED IN OTTAWA CITIZEN: H&M OPENS IN OTTAWA IN BAYSHORE SHOPPING CENTRE

This post should really be called “SPECIAL THANKSGIVING POST: 101 THINGS TO BE GRATEFUL ABOUT TODAY” however, due to some recent press coverage (a HUGE one if I may add, literally),  I have to alter this post a bit though I hope my main thesis remains the same. Not so long ago, a private message…

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FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK AND GREY

Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l’Action de grâce for French Canadians) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.  Although we really shouldn’t wait for that one day a year to feel grateful and thankful…

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IN THE GARDEN OF FLOWERS AND PEPLUMS: WELCOMING H&M CANADA IN OTTAWA

HUGE Expansion seems to be the mot du jour in Canada’s capital recently. Everywhere you look, streets are getting widened, condos are getting vertically extended, supermarket are getting to be super centres and this is not exclusive to one place we, fashion lovers, consider our own go to mecca – the shopping mall. Having been…

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DAY TO NIGHT FASHION: TRANSITION FROM OFFICE WEAR TO EVENING WEAR

For the last few years now, Twenty York Street’s work and social calendar has been packed with one exciting event after another, be it fashion, beauty, food or lifestyle. I suppose a big reason for that is because @20YS has humbly established itself as the go-to destination for all things fashion, style, and more in…

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BACK TO BASICS WITH PENCILS AND LEATHERS

  Scream bloody murder! That’s exactly how I feel like in those mornings when I’m facing two closets full of clothes up to the brim and I utter these infamous words – I HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR! Big dilemma I tell you. Everywhere I look, it seems everybody else – be it bloggers online or…

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TWENTY YORK STREET’S PHILLIP LIM FOR TARGET GIVE-AWAY

According to Urban Dictionary, HUMP DAY is the middle of a work week (Wednesday); used in the context of climbing a proverbial hill to get through a tough week. The absolute BEST day of the week, the day of maximum hope that maybe, you might make it out of this week alive. If we go…

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