Stores Holiday Gift Guide for the Bookish: Gifts Inspired by the Library Books, objects and trinkets for those who appreciate the Vancouver Public Library’s Colosseum-influenced central branch both for its unconventional design and for what’s inside.
Stores Holiday Gift Guide for the Chill: Gifts Inspired by Dude Chilling Park Count on these calming gift ideas to keep your recipients as cool, relaxed and unbothered as Dude Chilling Park’s resident (and recently resurrected) reclining figure.
Stores Holiday Gift Guide for the Funny: Gifts Inspired by A-maze-ing Laughter Fun and offbeat gifts that will have your friends and family smiling wide like the figures at English Bay’s much loved (and photographed) A-maze-ing Laughter.
Stores Holiday Gift Guide for the Gritty: Gifts Inspired by the East Van Cross The traditionally gritty, hard-edged vibe of East Van shines in these industrial-leaning picks—each of which, like the East Van cross, emits a glow of its own.
Stores Holiday Gift Guide for the Techie: Gifts Inspired by Science World Whether inspired by Science World’s shape, the knowledge within it, or both, these innovative objects are bound to impress the tech-inclined in your life.
Fashion Stylish Raingear That Will Have You Hoping for Drizzly Days Rainy day essentials, but make it fashion.
Beauty On the Rise: This Vancouver-Based Cosmetic Brand Knows the Science of Skin Okoko Cosmétiques uses plant-based ingredients (and a little cosmetic chemistry) to make clean, high-performance products.
Beauty 7 Summer Skincare Essentials That Will Carry You Into Fall From idiot-proof self-tanners to rosewater mists, here are the products our style editor swore by this summer.
Fashion Herschel’s Nordstrom Collab Is a Fuzzy, Colour-Happy Dream Corduroy, faux tiger-print fur, ripstop, oh my!
Beauty Vancouver-Based Illusionist Mimi Choi on the Magic of Transforming Fear Into Art The makeup artist also drops her skincare routine. Because we know you were wondering.
Fashion On the Rise: Vancouver’s Eco-Friendly Ocin Is Making Waves The ocean flows through designer Courtney Chew's veins—metaphorically, anyway.
Food News The Juiciest, Meatiest, Most Out-There Bites at This Year’s Brewery and the Beast Vegetarians, avert your gaze.
Weddings Bridesmaid Wear Goes, Erm, “Un-Bridesmaid” at Vancouver’s Park and Fifth The locally based line ditches the excess frills traditionally seen in wedding attire for sleek, wear-again-and-again styles.
Beauty 5 Next-Level Facial Treatments to Try in Vancouver From sessions that use low-level electrical currents to those that employ cold strips of gauze, here's how to get your skin in tip-top shape.
Restaurants We Want These Fried-Chicken Ice-Cream Sandwiches In Our Mouths Right. Now. Downlow and Mister have dreamed up the ultimate sweet-salty-spicy collab.
Fashion Beat the Rain with a Summer-y Pop-Up in Chinatown This Weekend Recently launched online shop Finding July aims to offer clothing that exudes "the excitement and joy" of summer.
Beauty Lucy Loves: Easy, Breezy No-Makeup Makeup Ah, summertime, and the livin’ is easy—so shouldn’t your beauty routine be, too?
Beauty Buy Now or Cry Later: The All-Natural Balm That Helped Heal My Eczema Say "see ya" to dry, flaky skin.
Stores Local Jewellery Designer Melanie Auld Opens Flagship in Fairview The dreamy, pink-and-green space carries Auld's full range of West Coast-inspired bling.
Fashion Vans Brings a Skateboarder’s Paradise to Vancouver—But Only for This Weekend! A giant indoor skate park and activities like live tattooing and design-your-own-Vans workshops are just some of the highlights at the city's first-ever House of Vans pop-up.
Beauty Rose-Marie Swift on Natural Beauty, Bold Lips and Why “Instagram Makeup” is Out The Vancouver-born makeup artist and founder of RMS Beauty says that "robot skin" was never en vogue.
Fashion Buy Now or Cry Later: A Sunny Jumpsuit That Makes Summer Dressing Easy-Peasy Summer sucks, but dressing for it shouldn't have to.
Stores Good Boy Wags Onto Main Street with Ethical, Design-Forward Pet Supplies Because your four-legged friends deserve cool, responsibly made goods, too.
Fashion You Can Now Shop Raf Simons’s and Helmut Lang’s Archives in Vancouver The menswear visionaries' vintage works are available for a limited time at Nordstrom.
Fashion Lucy Loves: Break Out the Sunnies, We’re Rockin’ Neon Everything Some summer styles you can get into.
Stores Luxury Consignment Shop Mine and Yours is Popping Up on South Granville The local biz is bringing its pre-loved designer goods to the former Boboli men’s space.
Stores Is This Metro Vancouver’s Chicest Cannabis Store? Burb wants to bring a "big city" experience to the region's suburbs—and a more luxurious, comfortable one at that.
Fashion Luxury Hunger Games-Approved Activewear Line Lands in Vancouver The London-based Lucas Hugh is now available at Kitsilano’s TurF.
Restaurants The Best Thing I Ate All Week: The “Orange” at Billy Button Dessert Bar Editor's Pick Spoiler: it's not actually an orange.
Beauty Buy Now or Cry Later: A Made-in-Vancouver Serum That’s Evening the Heck Out of My Skin The serum has sold out multiple times since its launch—and with good reason.
Fashion Danish “Rainwear” Label Rains to Open First Canadian Store in Vancouver Rain, rain, go away... or don't, I guess!
Stores It’s Boxing Day in April! Nifty for Fifty Returns for 12th Annual Blowout This Weekend More than 30 local designers are converging in Mount Pleasant to offer deep discounts on sustainably crafted goods.
Fashion On the Rise: Studio Lorem Ipsum What do you do when you can't find stylish outerwear that won't break the bank? For one designer, you create your own.
Stores Say High to All Day Breakfast, Vancouver’s Newest—and Coolest—Head Shop The design-obsessed folks behind the website Craigsbest are aiming to elevate cannabis consumption with a range of fun and functional goods.
Stores Toronto-Based Intimates Line Mary Young Pops Up in Vancouver This Weekend The designer is coming to the West Coast with her range of easy, breezy "lifestyle lingerie."
Stores Fine-Jewellery Biz Mejuri Lands in Vancouver for Week-Long Pop-Up For a limited time, you can shop the Toronto-based label's dainty bling IRL.
Beauty Vancouver-Based Brand Oak and Fort Accused of Knocking Off L.A. Designer In response to a post by Instagram fashion critic Diet Prada, Oak and Fort says similarities between its products and those by indie label J. Hannah are "totally coincidental."
Restaurants The Best Thing I Ate All Week: Buttermilk Fried Chicken at Nightingale Yes, the pizza’s great, but let’s talk about Nightingale’s other offerings, shall we?
Fashion Buy Now or Cry Later: A Cheery, Reusable (and Locally Crafted!) Grocery Bag Divert single-use plastics from the landfill and support local!
Booze News Starbucks Rolls Out Recyclable and Compostable Cups in Vancouver The city is one of five around the world that will test-sip the new ecofriendly alternatives.
Stores Self-Described “Comfort Brand” Naot Finds New Home on South Granville The made-in-Israel label—known for its removable "foot beds"—puts quality and durability first.
Restaurants The Best Thing I Ate All Week: Kir Royale Jell-O Shots at Key Party Can you eat a shot? Why, yes. Yes, you can.
Fashion “I Don’t Know How People Can Defend It”: Past Participants Shed Light on “Underbelly” of Vancouver Fashion Week Ahead of the event's fall/winter 2019 showcase, dozens of ex-volunteers shared experiences in which they worked long hours, faced unsafe conditions and were unpaid. But VFW maintains that it's serving the local fashion community.
Events Shop Slow-Fashion Finds at First Pick Handmade’s Spring Pop-Up This March The sustainable-clothing event features garments, accessories and beauty goods from more than 30 indie Canadian designers.
Fashion Shane and Falguni Peacock, Designers to the Stars, Will Open South Asian Fashion Week The husband-and-wife duo, who have dressed the likes of Beyoncé and Priyanka Chopra, is conducting its first Canadian runway show in Vancouver.
Fashion Buy Now or Cry Later: A Quality, Affordable Bra That Actually Does Its Job! Is there anything Uniqlo can’t do?
Stores Warby Parker to Open First Western Canadian Store in Kitsilano The original direct-to-consumer eyewear brand is launching a brick-and-mortar outpost in B.C.
Beauty Inside Le Labo’s Perfumery Lab—And First Standalone Store in Vancouver Think of it as a fairground for the senses—or an olfactory amusement park, if you will.
Fashion On the Rise: Adam-Lin Bungag The 23-year-old has already made big moves in Vancouver's fashion world.
Fashion Lucy Loves: 6 Spotted Picks That Will Have You Going Wild for Leopard Leopard is this season’s ubiquitous, most can’t-be-tamed print—oh, and a total neutral, if you ask us.
style Support Your Local Girl Gang with These Galentine’s Day Gift Ideas Thanks, Leslie Knope, for a dreaming up an occasion we can all get behind.
Fashion Was Vancouver Fashion Week Serious with That Model Casting? The event’s organizers posted a now-deleted casting call for models with size requirements considered unhealthy even for runway standards, sparking outrage from the local fashion community.
Beauty Meet Sunja Link Body Shoppe, Your Friendly Neighbourhood Wellness Destination The Riley Park boutique wants to be your go-to spot for coconut-scented floss, Japanese bath soaks and more.
Fashion 8 Red-Hot (and Auspicious) Finds for Lunar New Year Gift these items to friends and fam for bonus points on the luck-o-metre as we enter the Year of the Pig.
Fashion The Best Stuff to Cop From Virgil Abloh’s Debut Louis Vuitton Collection Vancouver's Holt Renfrew is the only Canadian retailer where you can nab the streetwear phenom's menswear in advance of its international release.
Restaurants Torafuku to Host Feel-Good Collab Feast Benefiting DTES Residents The restaurant, which will feature eight of Vancouver's brightest chefs for the event, is making a strong case for dining out in January.
Stores BonLook, the Warby Parker of Canadian Eyewear, Lands in Vancouver The Montreal-based retailer, which produces a range of affordable prescription frames, makes its mark in B.C. with two brick-and-mortar outposts.
Stores “Simple Essentials” Brand Kotn Opens First West Coast Store in Gastown The Toronto-based label prides itself on its minimalist, ethically made and affordable wardrobe basics.
Fashion These Cozy Vancouver-Crafted Socks are Oprah-Approved A pair of faux-fur-lined stockings from Pudus has once again made the lifestyle maven's list of favourite things for the holidays.
