Isabel Toledo, the Cuban American fashion designer with an avant-garde flair who created Michelle Obama’s standout lemongrass-coloured sheath dress and matching overcoat for her husband’s 2009 inauguration, has died. She was 59. Toledo died of breast cancer, her studio said in an email Monday. Further details were not immediately available. Though she presented her first […]
MONTREAL—A Quebec fashion designer said Sunday that an alleged violent attack against him and his partner over the weekend is proof that homophobia remains a problem in Canada. Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert said he and partner Alex James Taboureau were leaving a bar in La Malbaie, in the province’s Charlevoix region late Friday night when a man […]
With 65 acres to work with in the Ganaraska Forest region, the challenge for home designer Scott Posno was the big, blank slate. “Where do we start when we don’t have anything to react to?” questioned Posno, of British Columbia, about the site that’s about two hours northeast of Toronto. His solution was to create […]
Kate Spade, a fashion designer known for her sleek handbags, was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment in New York Tuesday in an apparent suicide, police said. She was 55. Spade’s body was found by a housekeeper not long after 10 a.m., police said at an afternoon news conference. Her husband and business partner, […]