Fashion & Style

Street Style: Hip & Urban Girl Launch

Posted by Jessica Blaine Smith / June 4, 2010

58 Comments

Wednesday night was the launch of the new Hip & Urban Girl website at SpiceSafar Lounge on King Street West. Over two hundred hip and urban ladies showed up to network and celebrate the launch.
Street Style Toronto Name: Lisa
Occupation: Personal Image & Style Coach
My Style: Mix of classic and creative. Classic cut clothes with creative flair.
Favourite Item: My hat. I just love it.

Name: Nathalie
Occupation: Designer
My Style: A little crazy. Unconventional. It come really naturally.
Favourite Item: My Gucci purse.

Street Style Toronto Name: Lisa N
Occupation: Co-founder of Hip & Urban Girl
My Style: Downtown chic
Favourite Item: My belt. It cost me $9.

Name: Deborah
Occupation: Travel Counsellor
My Style: Eclectic
Favourite Item: Necklace that I made myself.

Street Style Toronto Name: Nikki
Occupation: Artist & Blogger.
My Style: Sexy
Favourite Item: Necklace

Name: Anita
Occupation: Blogger (new blog launching soon)
My Style: Simple, classic & chic
Favourite Item: Blazer. I love all of it.

Street Style Toronto Name: Aly
Occupation: Executive Director at a Concept Development firm
My Style: Mix & match. A little preppy London.
Favourite Item: My Yves Saint Laurent booties.

Name: Lauren
Occupation: Blogger (new blog launching soon)
My Style: Bohemian, vintage with a little sass.
Favourite Item: My Gsus dress that I got at a sample sale.

Discussion

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Cam / June 4, 2010 at 10:25 am

Nathalie with all kinds of win, she steals the spotlight!

hey hey hey replying to a comment from Cam / June 4, 2010 at 10:31 am

she looks like Rachel Berry

hey hey hey replying to a comment from Cam / June 4, 2010 at 10:31 am

meaning SO cute

KL / June 4, 2010 at 10:33 am

So eight unemployed people walk into a bar...

Me / June 4, 2010 at 10:35 am

These people look like they live in suburbia.... and that's no compliment.

Lori / June 4, 2010 at 10:37 am

Love Lisa's looks! Great dress.

yvonne / June 4, 2010 at 10:37 am

these cows are definitely from the farm!!

Mike / June 4, 2010 at 10:40 am

can Blogto stop these street style column please!!! it's full of jokes!!!

Nicole / June 4, 2010 at 10:43 am

A great Street-Style! Some better than others, of course... I'm loving Aly's look!

Peter V / June 4, 2010 at 11:08 am

Lauren looks great!!! Love her style

CPR replying to a comment from Nicole / June 4, 2010 at 11:17 am

Aly + Nathalie FTW

Que / June 4, 2010 at 11:19 am

Definately less waiffy than usual.

JV replying to a comment from KL / June 4, 2010 at 11:30 am

Obviously you are bitter about something. What's wrong with being fashionably funemployed? Does everybody have to belong to the Rat Race? Focus on what YOU can do to be happier with yourself and let others be.

Cam replying to a comment from hey hey hey / June 4, 2010 at 11:37 am

glee reference makes me like her less, still great legs. Glad she isn't pulling the hoochie heels, shorts collabo

KL replying to a comment from JV / June 4, 2010 at 11:45 am

Nope. I just don't want my tax dollars going to provide martini mixer while people live vicariously through their under construction websites.

HelenM / June 4, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Anyone know where Anita's dress is from? I love it!

Tim / June 4, 2010 at 12:36 pm

seriously.. these are not hip and urban!!!

one girls view / June 4, 2010 at 01:06 pm

these girls look frumpy,
and look like they invaded H&M.

but then again, spicesafar is a barf-smelling shit hole.
Perfect spot for this unemployed 'mixer'.

Darcy McGee / June 4, 2010 at 01:07 pm

I'll take a Lisa & Nathalie sandwich.

Liz / June 4, 2010 at 01:13 pm

totally agree of one girls view...
these girls all shopped at H&M!!!

handfed / June 4, 2010 at 01:25 pm

Which one of these turkeys is "urban" ?

Bobby / June 4, 2010 at 01:28 pm

Wow. There are some small and bitter people on these boards. I was there that night and the room was packed with 200 beautiful and capable women, networking and building each other up instead of tearing each other down.

You wouldn't have liked it though, there were no 45-year old men there to flirt with to get free drinks from. These ladies paid their own way.

pzpn / June 4, 2010 at 02:44 pm

Nathalie: the bf jacket is sooo last season!

TheRealJohnson replying to a comment from KL / June 4, 2010 at 02:59 pm

Sorry, how exactly did your tax dollars pay for the launch party of "Hip and Urban Girl" website? Did you read something about the HST that I didn't?

T / June 4, 2010 at 03:07 pm

Oh yes, these career bloggers and other....I don't even know how to qualify these pseudo-jobs (Aly exempted)...are really people that I want to look up to as examples of successful women.

Of the 8 people profiled, it appears 1 has a real job, and of the 7 others, 5 of their websites are non-existant. Yes I am very impressed by these role model's who are sustaining themselves on the no doubt huge profits of their businesses that don't yet exist. I'm sure they paid for their inspiring wardrobes totally independantly.

Mike / June 4, 2010 at 03:17 pm

I'm guessing Lauren's blazer weighs about 50lbs based on how she's standing.

KL replying to a comment from TheRealJohnson / June 4, 2010 at 03:21 pm

I meant mixer as in so-delish lychee syrup, not an actual martini mixer. Tax dollars refers to the fact that none of these people have actual jobs and someone has to pay for fig ravioli at Terroni.

jf / June 4, 2010 at 03:21 pm

Personally I think all the ladies look great - way too much hatin going on here.

love love love Anita's blazer and Lauren's gsus dress paired with the hat tops my list

Alex replying to a comment from pzpn / June 4, 2010 at 03:37 pm

I, like, know. SOOO totally last season.

bob / June 4, 2010 at 04:07 pm

it went from light to dark

belvedere / June 4, 2010 at 06:26 pm

god these girls look worse the further u go down the page. shit, Lauren is just missing the grim reaper scythe. this looks like our local secretarial pool. and wtf is up with blogger as a job??? aside from dickwads like perez hilton, who makes $ from blogging? gaaaaaaaaag

Hi, Hater! / June 4, 2010 at 06:32 pm

Well aren't you a miserable group of people? Sitting behind your computers, in your dusty little cubicles all day.. scanning "BLOGTO" for photos to comment on.... Congrats, guys! I'm sure it was a good day at the office! ;)

Do you feel better about yourself, anonymously insulting people over the internet?
You're not critics, you're just bitter cowards.

Ladies, don't be offended.. At all!
Take these ugly words as free promotion for your blogs and business ventures.
That's all a hater is good for :)

seanm replying to a comment from Hi, Hater! / June 4, 2010 at 07:03 pm

I don't work in a cubicle, but I am still going to comment negatively; though I like to think this is helpful advice.

It's not about the clothes though, I really don't give a shit. It's about the "occupations". Blogging is not an occupation, period. I suppose it occupies time, but that's about it. A tip to future Street Style interviewees: if you're too embarrassed to list your real job (or perhaps are unemployed), please do not answer "blogger".

Gill / June 4, 2010 at 07:07 pm

I pitty the woman who would take "image" or style coaching from Lisa. does anyone else cringe when they come across the term "fashionista"? can we just kill that one off for good please!

K / June 4, 2010 at 07:43 pm

Aly looks fantastic. Sexy & chic.

If they're dressed top to bottom in H&M, then maybe there's a problem (though even that's arguable). But last I checked, Gucci, YSL, and Gsus aren't H&M.

mondayjane / June 4, 2010 at 08:55 pm

Aly looks beautiful and chic. I don't know about normally rocking shorts with booties, but she really makes it work.

KT replying to a comment from KL / June 4, 2010 at 10:25 pm

Sure, except I happen to know one of your "unemployed" bloggers and she works her ass off full time, while doing her blog at the same time. And she apparently looks fabulous all the while. Someone sounds jealous of people enjoying what THEY do!

mon / June 4, 2010 at 11:12 pm