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Navigate Space / Hair Salons
Navigate Salon has managed a seemingly impossible feat for a downtown Toronto hair salon — somehow, it has garnered a mass of positive reviews and nearly zero negative online reactions,...
Metsa Studio / Men's Clothing
Metsa, an Estonian word meaning "my little house in the forest," is Markus Uran's line of beautifully tailored menswear and accessories. At his Harbord street studio, he crafts streamlined "heritage...
Kind Exchange / Men's And Women's Vintage
The Kind Exchange helps to solve one of the biggest problems you face when it comes time for that inevitable wardrobe clean out — where to dump the decent clothes...
Of a Kind / Men's And Women's Vintage
Of A Kind is a vintage and vinyl shop run by a group of four friends and their expanded social network. Kyle Turner, one of the owners, tells me it...
Used House of Vintage / Men's And Women's Vintage
Used House of Vintage, to my own personal amusement, is sandwiched right between Urban Outfitters and American Apparel on Queen West. Imagine, then, the spectacle afforded to keen observers when...
Ephin Apparel / Men's Clothing
Ephin Apparel, the streetwear brand originating from Surrey, B.C., has opened its first Toronto store in Bloordale. Originally, the plan was to supply local, already-established Toronto shops with the graffiti-inspired...
Marcato / Shoes
Marcato has opened its doors for its second unveiling in less than a year, derailed by plumbing problems that seem to plague this strip of old buildings on Queen West....
Madison Shoes & Accessories / Shoes
Madison Shoes & Accessories was having a fantastic sale when I stopped by for the first time. I've passed by the pristine white shop countless times before, but for some...
My Roll Life / Sportswear
My Roll Life opened last week in the west end, tying in with the wrap-up of the first ever Roller Derby World Cup. The Parkdale shop is a roller skating...
Prince Cut Kings / Barber Shops
Prince Cut Kings is a reminder that men should be grateful that a trend has been reversed and young barbers are plugging in their clippers in a trade that, a...
Community 54 / Men's Clothing
Community 54 is not a video arcade, per se, but so it will serve for me from now on when I have time to kill in Parkdale. All of the...
Bob + Paige II / Hair Salons
Bob + Paige has opened a second salon just minutes from its original. Now, admittedly, I know nothing about what it takes to run a successful business, but you would...
A2ZANE / Women's Accessories
A2ZANE has finally found a permanent home On Queen West near Bathurst, the former pop-up shop spent the past year in a smaller spot further west, following earlier pop-ups and...
Gaspard / Women's Clothing
Gaspard has a dress with which I have fallen in love. It's a quilted Liberty, sandy-brown cotton, and printed with birds from neck to bottom hem. "It's based on drawings by...
Chosen Vintage / Men's And Women's Vintage
Chosen, says owner Melissa Ball, is very much in a Clueless stage. Picture Alicia Silverstone in a slinky stretch maxi and Stacey Dash by her side in chunky heels and...
Drake 50/50 / Men's And Women's Clothing
50/50 Is the Drake Hotel's newest concept space that's part vintage furniture, part fashion.The shop, which is just a few doors down from the hotel and occupying a former gallery,...
Grateful Head / Hair Salons
Grateful Head has held strong over the last few years as a Toronto salon with one of the best names around. And as long as I've been heading there for...
F As In Frank / Men's And Women's Vintage
F As In Frank has arrived from Vancouver, bringing its collection of vintage urban wear and '80s and '90s-inspired design. It's a special moment that first time you see a...
Dalston Grey / Women's Vintage
Dalston Grey marks Dundas West's ongoing ascendancy in the local fashion scene. The vintage store (with a few new pieces here and there) is filled with astoundingly budget-friendly pieces sure...
Hide / Women's Accessories
Hide is a new Dundas West shop specializing in leather accessories. The name is perhaps a bit literal for my taste, but the style is totally up my alley. That...
Vintage Grounds / Women's Vintage
Vintage Grounds is the newly named, newly designed, newly street-level incarnation of the former Vantage Ground. Owner Lily wanted to move her Annex shop up from its basement space below...
Derk / Women's Clothing
Derk in the Annex is a women's clothing store modeled after its parent boutique in Mexico. It's been on Bathurst just north of Bloor for about seven months, though the...
C Squared (Queen and Bathurst) / Shoes
C Squared has opened a new, second location just a couple blocks west of its existing location on Queen West. C Squared the original is just east of Spadina, and...
Art.27 / Beauty Products
Art.27 is a beauty and wellness boutique focused on organics, natural ingredients, and ethically sourced labour and production. These aren't just buzz terms for owner Camelia Nicoara. In fact, so...
Riant Boutique / Women's Clothing
Riant Boutique gets its name from a word tied to joy, cheerfulness, and laughter. "This sounds really corny," owner Maxine Waters says after we escape to a back room...
Hollow Ground Barber Shop / Barber Shops
Hollow Ground Barber Shop is where I find Beejay Diona. The last time we crossed paths was when he was waiting for customers on a quiet winter afternoon at Mike's...
Mia Boutique / Women's Clothing
Mia Boutique is a Junction clothing store that can't really be defined. "I'm not consignment, vintage, or second hand," owner Sandra Muscat tells me as she jumps back and forth...
White Crow / Women's Clothing
White Crow, a favourite Toronto-based online boutique, has opened a summer pop-up in the Borroughes Building on Queen West. This isn't the first pop-up venture for White Crow owner Jin Ryu,...
Doll Bar Inc. / Hair Salons
Doll Bar Inc. is a new salon dedicated exclusively to hair extensions. In the same way blow dry bars such as Blo and Do My Hair have found success in...
Vidal Sassoon Academy / Hair Salons
Vidal Sassoon Academy in Toronto is the place to go when feeling adventurous and/or broke. That's because the Academy, which is always looking for hair models, will give you a...
Chartreuse Style / Women's Clothing
Chartreuse Style is an eco-friendly clothing store with an emphasis on style."I wanted to open a shop with environmentally-friendly clothes that don't necessarily look 'eco,'" owner Mary-Ann Kowala tells me...
Woodlawn / Men's And Women's Clothing
Woodlawn Boutique is a rustic-looking new boutique near Dundas and Dufferin. the intersection isn't a shopping destination quite yet, but Ainaz Maleko definitely recognizes the potential, especially with stores such...
About Design Corp / Women's Clothing
"About Design Corp is about nothing." I thought I was in an old Seinfeld episode when I heard that line. But I let Dean Hutchinson go on. "It's the idea...
Dutil / Men's And Women's Clothing
Dutil Denim is denim floor to ceiling, quite literally. With stacks of jeans, shorts, overalls, shirts, and remnants rolled up near the ceiling, you won't find anything of another creed...
Fresh Collective (Roncesvalles) / Women's Clothing
Fresh Collective on Roncesvalles is the third Fresh Collective outlet in Toronto, and though just a month old, it's already being fully embraced by the neighbourhood. "It has totally exceeded my...
Pretty Beauty & Books / Beauty Products
Pretty Beauty & Books is petite little Mirvish Village shop offering a unique hybrid of beauty and books. Its mantra is clean living, and both Pretty's books and makeup reflect...
V by 69 Vintage / Men's And Women's Vintage
V by 69 Vintage is a new concept store by (you guessed it) 69 Vintage featuring a collection of the owner's most cherished vintage treasures. The location, right across from...
Garrison's Barbershop / Barber Shops
Garrison's By The Park probably has the best view of any barber shop in the city. Most barber shops look out on a stretch of retail streetscape or the hallways...
Magwood / Women's Vintage
Magwood on Dundas West is offering luxury vintage pieces draped in history. Each piece, hand selected by owner Sarah Magwood, seems to tell a little story about where it came...
Quinn West / Hair Salons
Quinn West is a mini-antique shop and hair salon all in one, offering a nice browsing alternative to flipping through pages of LiLo's latest drug debacle while waiting for a...
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