With over 2500 years of history, there are a few places on earth that remains a beautiful marriage of the ancient and the modern, where the East meets the West and where tradition works side by side with tradition. One of them is Istanbul, a true study in contrast. The city lies in the heart…
Read More...ALDO GRAND RE-OPENING PARTY: @ALDO_SHOES ANNOUNCES @20YS AS NATIONAL STYLE AMBASSADOR
ALDO GRAND RE-OPENING PARTY: ALDO ANNOUNCES @20YS AS THEIR NATIONAL STYLE AMBASSADOR #ALDOXRIDEAU #ALDOALIST – PART I The week has been by far one of the most hectic yet exciting times here at Twenty York Street. Travelling via 6 flights all the way from the other side of the world, I spent two glorious weeks…
Read More...Joy To The World: Smart Set Christmas Give-away
What other season in a year gives you an excuse to wear a liberal amount of sparkle and apply quite a dash of shimmer to finish off your look? Christmas isn’t just a season for giving but also for fabulous holiday dressing! From the office holiday parties to the 5 a 7 cocktail get…
Read More...Get Kinky at KINKI for Charity
Once in a while, if you’re lucky, you find the perfect combination of flavours that not only excite the mouth but wakes up all your senses. If you’ve been to Kinki and have tried the new menu developed by new Executive Chef Pablo Robaina, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, then…
Read More...FALL FASHION: JACOB CHIC SUITCASE
One of my most coveted, most beloved, most versatile fashion item when I was a struggling University student was the classic beige trench coat from JACOB. Sure enough, as soon as I received my first ever pay cheque, I literally ran to the store and bought it. A well-loved Canadian fashion brand headquartered in Montreal,…
Read More...SMASHBOX Review and Give-away: Smashin’ Shades of Fame
I guess it’s inevitable. Though I tried hard not to wax poetic about beauty products as I first consider myself a slave of fashion more than cosmetics, it’s really a hard world to separate as the parallels of beauty and fashion are absolutely infinite. Both lend and borrow inspiration with the other with most designer…
Read More...One Whole Year THANN Winner
Just before Christmas, Twenty York Street has had the great pleasure of announcing it’s biggest reader give-away yet! In partnership with THANN Canada, we hosted a give-away that would award one very, very lucky reader the THANN Top-seller item not just here in Canada but all over the world, perhaps the most talked about beauty…
Read More...A Whole New Year of THANN
Sometime not too long ago, I met something/somebody that has changed my entire year, if not my entire life, forever. It was perhaps one of those serendipitous moments that you never see coming… it’s something so magical, so breath taking… I never thought something like this would ever happen to me. But that one moment changed me. And I’m about…
Read More...Ottawa Fashion: Big Sexy Sale Alert
The biggest sale to hit Lilac Lingerie since it’s opening last year is coming… Starting September 1st to the 30th, 2011, Lilac Lingerie will mark down items from the Spring/Summer 2011 collection and older by 50%. Amazing, yes? {Sea of Dreams by Pleasure State, also available in bra and full bottom set} Finding that perfect bra…
Read More...Girls Night Out
Attention brides-to-be, bridesmaids and any beauty who loves all things wedding. On March 26th, Splendid Events will be producing the show ROUGE: Ottawa’s Ultimate Bacherlorette Party, which will be held at the Mansion. Proceeds to this amazing “un-wedding” show will go to support the AIDS Committee of Ottawa. AIDS Committee of Ottawa is a…
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