Picked three names out of a hat and the winners of the Yogini by Harvey Prince x The Anthology giveaway are…
Amy and Julie, with the grand prize going to Sarah! Congratulations, ladies! May its scent remind you of everyone’s favourite part of yoga class: shavasana.
[Photo by William Klein found here.]
P.S. We have more giveaways coming up on The Anthology shortly so check back often!
When you think of Palm Springs, you think of this sort of thing, don’t you? (This is actually one of Peter Granser’s wicked-rad pictures of Sun City from his book of the same name, but it’s fitting.) With early dinners, long golf games and a lot of quiet, your grandparents love it in the California desert, don’t they?
But can your grandfather do this?
Palm Springs is a blast even if you’re not living off a pension. Doing absolutely nothing but blasting Snoop on your poolside stereo, sipping sangria — which, when I make it, is more like a fruit salad with red wine dressing…
…and bobbing around on pool noodles. It’s my kind of vacation. Not travelling, vacationing. There’s a difference and I love them both (almost) equally.
The area’s beautiful too and not just in a sunshine-and-palm-trees kind of way. These days, every ad campaign, music video and look book seems to be shot in the middle of the desert, and for good reason — the light is gorgeous, the landscape is eerily barren and the weather is usually incredible (though, as I learned from sweater-wearing experience, that’s not always the case).
Speaking of wearing things, I left my white linen suit and Panama hat at home and opted instead to rock a bamboo t-shirt dress c/o Soleone (comfiest thing ever), vintage beaded belt and Frye shoes. When I wasn’t wearing my swimming costume, that is.
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This weekend, Vancouver-based photographer Braden Paul is at the gorgeous Gorge (sorry! couldn’t resist) shooting Sasquatch. Not, like, a real Sasquatch, but Sasquatch Music Festival. He went last year and his photos are out of this world: take a look here, here and here and stay tuned for this year’s highlights.
I will also be heading to Washington State, though I won’t be heading to the festival (sad face) instead, I’ll be listening to the likes of Santigold, Childish Gambino, tUnE-yArDs and SBTRKT on my iPod with my Urbanears headphones (pictured in Pattan Dark Grey c/o Urbanears).
Thank you, National Post, for featuring my striped self alongside Tom Mora, VP of women’s design at J.Crew. You’ll find my recap of the opening of the clothier’s new Vancouver store here.
Thanks, Evaan, for snapping that shot and thanks, Marc, for spotting it!
Want to smell like a yogi? Not the sweaty-cause-I-just-finished-a-Bikram-class kind of yogi, but the kind who’s all ripped and blissed out? Then this is your lucky day! The Anthology has teamed up with perfumery Harvey Prince to give away one 50 mL bottle of Yogini fragrance and two 8.8 ml roll-ons. With notes of sandalwood and Egyptian myrrh, it’s light and spicy and could be yours.
For one entry: Comment on this post and tell us your favourite yoga position — happy baby, anyone?
For two entries: Like Harvey Prince on Facebook.
For three entries: Write on The Anthology’s Facebook wall.
The contest is open to Anthology readers in the US and Canada. Contest closes 5:00pm Thursday, May 24, 2012. Good luck!
[CLOSED] Congratulations Amy, Julie and Sarah!
I swear I didn’t mean to dress like Joe Fresh’s PR reps (that’s Laura and Michelle of Tara Parker Tait PR) at the Fresh Off the Runway spring preview. It just happened that way.
I love me some colour — especially orange and cobalt. Those hues were meant for each other.
[Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses, JNBY shirts, J.Crew jeans, vintage bag]
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If I weren’t such a classy lassy I’d make a joke about getting leid at lunch. But I’ll wait until I’m actually in Hawaii to do such a thing. Because after lunching with the folks from Starwood Hotels I can’t wait to plan some island-hopping.
Who wants to come with?
A few weeks ago my girlfriends and I made ravioli by hand. Have you ever? With all the rolling and filling and mixing, it is the tastiest thing in the world, but very, very time-consuming. I find it’s much easier to have someone else prepare Italian food for you. Especially when that someone else is Paul Marshall, executive chef of Cento Notti.
I went to the spring menu tasting at proprietor John Evans’s home (not pictured: his trillion dollar view of Coal Harbour) and as much as I loved the ahi tuna carpaccio and pan-seared halibut, it reminded me why caprese salad is the best. And it’s hardly time-consuming at all.
Artist Jason Young’s vision of the future is idyllic: no wars, no global warming, just peace, love and curling. Yes, curling. The kicker? He envisions this utopia in the not-so-distant future; the year 2054 to be exact.
“People feel it’s a little ambitious – that we would so soon have evolved so far,” says the Vancouver-born, New York-based painter and performance artist. “But we’re being asked to sacrifice so many things for our future and yet there’s no positive vision being provided — it’s always drowning polar bears and doom and gloom. Enough with the stick, what about the carrot?”
The carrot is Young’s ‘2054’, a performance that resembles a curling match played by actors on the roof of Soho House (which many non-New Yorkers will remember from the Sex and the City episode in which Samantha impersonates a club member to gain access to the rooftop pool).
Instead of playing the game to win, the teams played to paint. Each illuminated stone was filled with coloured resin so it left streaks of colour as it glided across the “sheet,” which was actually a 50-foot lightbox that would later be divided into ten pieces and parcelled off for collectors.
This short film shows how it all went down.
So why, of all sports, did Young chose curling as the one played in his utopian future? Well, he’s Canadian. But there’s more to it than that; Young chose the game of stones partly because it’s built on collaboration and communication, partly because of its visual interest, and partly because of its obscurity.
“In the States people don’t really know the rules so it gives me a lot of artistic license. If I were to try doing this with baseball or football people would be up in arms,” he says.
Instead, they embraced it. Now there’s talk of taking ‘2054’ to cities like Sao Paolo and London and maybe, possibly, hopefully one day in the not-so-distant future, Vancouver.
[Supplied photos]
How many weddings are you going to this summer? I’m going to six. And you can bet every bride is going to be wearing something very different. That’s the most fun part, no? Seeing how the dress reflects the bride’s personality.
Mad props to the brides who go bold and wear couture-style gowns, like those in Jason Matlo’s latest collection.
As the Vancouver-based designer prepared for his runway presentation at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia (he’s showing the models how to strut their stuff in the photo above), he shared how this collection came to be — the joys (employing couture techniques) and the pains (employing couture techniques).
“It’s bridal-themed but very loosely bridal-themed,” he says. In other words, you could wear these dresses to tie the knot, but you don’t have to be a bride to wear them — with their darker colours and rich embellishments, they’d look just as beautiful if you’re simply tying a knot…in your hair.
You’ll find my interview on Vitamin Daily’s Editors’ Diary.
P.S. I visited Jason Matlo’s studio in preparation for a segment on CTV a little while ago and you’ll find it right here.