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Blue Button Shop / Men's And Women's Clothing

1499 Dundas St W 647.606.3270 Website
Blue Button Shop

Blue Button Shop opened last week in Dundas West as a way for owner Brian Cheuk to bring a bit of Japan to Toronto. But, instead of the loud, youthful...


hr2 Toronto / Men's And Women's Clothing

1 Bass Pro Mills Dr 905.886.2427 Website
hr2 Toronto

hr2, the premium off-price little sister of Holt Renfrew - officially opened last Friday at Vaughan Mills. A blitz of international companies have recently landed in Canada, including the well...


John Fluevog (Distillery District) / Shoes

4 Trinity St 416.583.1970 Website
John Fluevog (Distillery District)

John Fluevog Shoes' new spot at the Distillery District is draped in history, and although the shoe retailer can somewhat relate, their design aesthetic is a tad (read: a lot)...


North Standard Trading Post / Men's And Women's Clothing

1662 Queen St W 647.348.7060 Website
North Standard Trading Post

North Standard Trading Post, the newest clothing retailer to set up shop in Parkdale, is the epitome of Canadian-style coziness - a notion I should've realized when I first saw...



Doll Factory by Damzels (Roncesvalles) / Women's Clothing

394 Roncesvalles Website
Doll Factory by Damzels (Roncesvalles)

Doll Factory by Damzels has hit Roncesvalles after many years fulfilling the needs of modern day pin-up girls at their Leslieville boutique. The store's hardwood floors, warm lighting, and hot...


Annie Aime / Women's Clothing

42 Ossington Ave 416.840.5227 Website
Annie Aime

Annie Aime is the latest concept shop to set up camp on the stretch of Ossington which has seen an incredible influx of new storess, restaurants and even gourmet butchers...


Elevator / Men's And Women's Clothing

1273 Queen St West 416.535.9671 Website
Elevator

Elevator, the latest shop to pop up near Queen and Dufferin, opened its doors to the neighborhood this past month, offering a dose of Savile Row-lite for the Parkdale set....


Tiger of Sweden / Men's And Women's Clothing

56 Ossington Ave 416.588.4437 Website
Tiger of Sweden

Tiger of Sweden opened on Ossington last week as the latest addition to the influx of new luxe designer boutiques along what's quickly become one of the city's most covetable...



Craft and Guile / Women's Clothing

70 Yorkville Avenue 416.924.4369 Website
Craft and Guile

Craft and Guile opened about two weeks ago in the former home of the George Brown Nail and Make-Up School, and its sleek grey-with-white-trim interior was handled entirely by its...


Gerhard Supply / Men's Clothing

2949 Dundas St W 416.797.1290 Website
Gerhard Supply

Gerhard Supply is Toronto's newest menswear destination — and I say destination because while the Junction is quite the hotbed for design stores, it's quite the distance from the men's...


Blossom Lounge / Men's And Women's Clothing

24 Tank House Lane, Suite 101 416.777.1744 Website
Blossom Lounge

Blossom Lounge opened around two months ago, and is rather hard to spot on a simple meander through the Distillery District's cobblestone streets, with virtually no streetside presence. Located inside...


Mint Boutique / Women's Clothing

6 Rack House Mews 416.368.6468 Website
Mint Boutique

Mint Boutique opened up almost two months ago in a somewhat dicey part of Distillery District--no, the notoriously swank neighbourhood isn't home to roving gangs, but it will soon be...



The Make Den / Sew And Craft

1244 Bloor St. W. 416.705.6925 Website
The Make Den

The Make Den Sewing Studio recently relocated from within 69 Vintage Collective to a new location at 1244 Bloor Street West, providing a bright and crafty addition to Bloordale's streetscape....


Stussy Toronto / Men's Clothing

1000 Queen Street West 416.537.9700 Website
Stussy Toronto

Stussy has moved from its inaugural Toronto home at Richmond and Spadina to an airy space at the foot of Ossington on Queen. It's a big move for the local...


Body Blitz (East) / Spa

497 King St. E 416.364.0400 Website
Body Blitz (East)

Body Blitz (East) is the just like the original Body Blitz, just a little bit larger and more accessible for the east-end tranquillity-seeker. Body Blitz has long been on my list...


Gotstyle (Distillery) / Men's And Women's Clothing

21 Trinity St 416.260.9696 Website
Gotstyle (Distillery)

Gotstyle has ventured into the Distillery District and with it, women's clothing. The formerly menswear-only shop has just opened its second and larger location, stocking its new sprawling 6,700 square...



Lift Salon / Hair Salons

129 Queen Street East 416.367.5438 Website
Lift Salon

Lift Salon and Spa has moved into its new digs... right beside an auto shop. Yes, beyond the rows of stacked tires and signs for muffler repair are blushing brides...


HazelLily / Women's Vintage

3235 Yonge St. 647.351.4477 Website
HazelLily

HazelLily was bred out of good old-fashioned designer envy. "I was working in high-end retail for years," says HazelLily owner and founder Vanessa Stein. "And I loved it. The problem...


Gravitypope / Shoes

1010 Queen Street West 647.748.5155 Website
Gravitypope

Gravitypope is a 4,000 square foot vision for shoe-lovers. The west coast import just opened at the foot (ahem) of Ossington at Queen, offering a Candy Land of chunky pumps,...


V by 69 Vintage (Queen St.) / Women's Vintage

702 Queen Street West 647.748.9119 Website
V by 69 Vintage (Queen St.)

V by 69 Vintage (Queen St.) opened in the space that previously housed Pho Pa on West Queen West just a few days ago. I'd spied goings-on in the storefront...



Thomas / Men's And Women's Clothing

960 Queen Street West, 2nd floor 416.419.3765 Website
Thomas

Thomas very quietly opened about a month ago on the second floor of the West Queen West storefront previously housed designer Michael Joseph Thomas' previous project--Ruins. Thomas closed down the...


Sauvage / Women's Clothing

644 Queen St. West 647.770.0443 Website
Sauvage

Sauvage is unabashedly not about sourcing local. This pop-up-turned-permanent boutique scours the globe for its honed collection of women's clothing and accessories, looking to cities such as Berlin, Paris, and...


Contraband / Men's Clothing

154 Cumberland st 416.928.1414 Website
Contraband

Contraband has been open for just a few days, but you'd never know it from the already pristine, everything-in-its-place interior. The stock is not yet fully rounded out--you can blame...


I Barbieri / Barber Shops

3524 Bathurst St 416.829.8127
I Barbieri

It's the middle of Sukkot when I visit Anthony Del Maestro at I Barbieri, his old school barbershop in the middle of the heavily orthodox Jewish stretch of Bathurst by...



Hoi Bo / Women's Accessories

15 Trinity St. 647.852.5488 Website
Hoi Bo

Hoi Bo has been open for just 6 weeks, which explains its lack of signage amidst the steel doors and brick facades of the Distillery District. Rather, it's announced by...


The Black Box Boutique / Women's Accessories

106 Yorkville Avenue, 2nd floor 647.748.8787 Website
The Black Box Boutique

The Black Box Boutique has been open for just two weeks in a second-floor space in Yorkville. Somewhat unassuming from the outside--with a banner hanging from a balcony, and a...


Brandy Melville / Women's Clothing

326 Queen St. W. Website
Brandy Melville

Brandy Melville caters to the teenybopper crew, and it wasn't just the gaggle of braces and backpacks that greeted me upon entering that led me to that conclusion (but let's...


Untitled and Co. / Men's And Women's Vintage

214 Bathurst St. 647.521.3114 Website
Untitled and Co.

Untitled and Co. exists on a mostly unassuming stretch just north of Queen West, and attempts to inject a touch of je ne sais quoi to an immediate area known...



Pomp and Pageantry / Women's Clothing

112 Scollard St 416.922.2739 Website
Pomp and Pageantry

Pomp and Pageantry has been open for just two weeks when I stop by. Squirreled away from the luxe bustle of Yorkville proper, on Scollard St., the shop is a...


Eye Love Brow and Beauty Bar / Spa

793 Queen St West 647.349.1884 Website
Eye Love Brow and Beauty Bar

Eye Love Brow and Beauty Bar shares a light-filled, loft space with Lebel and Crowe on West Queen West, and is located up the same slender staircase, and announced by...


Lebel and Crowe / Hair Salons

793 Queen St West 647.349.1884 Website
Lebel and Crowe

Lebel and Crowe is easy to miss from the West Queen West street-side, squirreled away up a long, narrow staircase and in the back of a high-ceilinged, white-washed loft space....


Deluxe Boutique / Men's And Women's Clothing

793 Queen Street West 416.603.3704 Website
Deluxe Boutique

Deluxe Boutique has been a quiet West Queen West fixture for many years, after weathering the 2010 fire that ravaged the apartment above the shop. After a necessary closure, some...



Cat's Cradle / Women's Clothing

596 Yonge Street 416.920-8216 Website
Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is a downtown Yonge Street landmark, and yes, those actually exist. While the Yonge and Wellesley Street area might seem to be all spandex boutiques and ambiguous-looking electronics...


Far Away Eyes / Women's Accessories

295 Queen St. East 647.284.2449 Website
Far Away Eyes

Far Away Eyes, which has been open for just three weeks, is owner Katelyn Joliat's long-time dream come true. During my visit, she tells me she's been aiming to open...


6 by Gee Beauty / Women's Accessories

6 Roxborough Street West 416.960.8080 Website
6 by Gee Beauty

6 by Gee Beauty is the ultimate luxury lifestyle shop — or "luxe," as you're more likely to hear once inside. This is the type of place where the jeans...


Fitzroy Boutique / Women's Clothing

972 Queen St. West 647.520.7907 Website
Fitzroy Boutique

Fitzroy Boutique is a bit hard to notice from a street-side perspective, but those who pass by BYOB will notice that half of the window space has been taken over...



Colour Lab 12 / Hair Salons

1013 Yonge Street 416.922.7676 Website
Colour Lab 12

Colour Lab 12 is the first salon in Toronto that is exclusively about colour. No cuts, styles, perms (do people still get those?), trims, or anything else unrelated to hue....


Face Furniture Optical / Eyewear

464 Parliament St. 416.960.3223 Website
Face Furniture Optical

Face Furniture Optical is located in Cabbagetown, and it stands out like a sore thumb, but the neighbourhood response has been welcoming. "The area is changing," owner Tewfik Sherif tells...


Rescue Vintage / Women's Vintage

102 Ossington Avenue 416.533.0443 Website
Rescue Vintage

Rescue Vintage, if not for the chalkboard sign sitting loudly on the sidewalk, is easy to miss for the everyday Ossington passer-by. Though hidden by well-kept hedges, the storefront is...


Bridge + Bardot / Women's Vintage

1138 Dundas St. West Website
Bridge + Bardot

Bridge + Bardot - the newest boutique to settle down on Dundas West - is something of a paradox. The minimalist white walls, enormous dreamlike mirror, and embossed aluminum ceilings...



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