Due to the fact that Real Style Network has received so many inquiries on where to find the Olympic red mittens, we wanted to let our readers know where to buy a pair of your own.
You can purchase the Olympic red mittens for only $10 at HBC stores, The Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters, if you can find them. The mittens are currently sold out online. You may be able to find them in a store near you. If you can’t find a pair of red mittens, they still have Believe scarves and toques, Vancouver 2010 shirts or Team Canada jerseys at the HBC Vancouver 2010 store here.
HBC says over 3 million red mittens have been sold according to The Seattle Times. These red mittens are only available for a limited time. They are not making any more even though the demand is so high that people are lining up for an hour in Vancouver to get a hold of the Olympic merchandise.
Once the Olympics are over, you will have to look on eBay to get a pair. There are currently lots of red mittens on eBay here selling for approximately $20 per pair.
If you missed out on getting a pair of red mittens read our story here to find out where you can get other Olympic themed clothing.
It’s not just our athletes sporting our Canadian Olympic gear anymore. Everyone loves our 2010 Canadian Olympic apparel. It’s even made its way to Hollywood.
The stars of Glee headed to Vancouver last weekend to check out some of the Olympics. Once they were here, HBC set them up in style. Mark Salling and Kevin McHale, who play Puck and Artie on Glee, could be seen on the streets of Vancouver wearing Canadian Olympic clothing.
The actors went on Twitter to thank Canada and HBC for a great time and the new clothes. Mark Salling tweeted: Hey Vancouver, ur so clean, can’t wait to see more of u, thanks hbc. Kevin McHale tweeted: HBC hooking it up!! @marksalling and I at our 1st Olympic event! Surreal!!!
The hottest Olympic items available are the cute little red mittens that everyone is wearing at the events. Even Oprah has a pair! Oprah Winfrey featured the red mittens on her show last week. Oprah loves the gloves so much that she teamed up with HBC to give everyone in her audience a pair. Watch the video below to see the audience go wild for the red mittens. They are only available at HBC and are selling fast. Don’t miss your chance to get the red mittens everyone in Vancouver is wearing.
Read our story here to find out where else you can get Olympic themed clothing.
From an elementary school fantasy to the runways of New York Fashion Week, Canadian fashion line Mackage really is a dream come true.
Montreal natives, Eran Elfassy and Elisa Dahan’s dream began in elementary school where the pair met. They began sketching designs together imagining the day when their pictures could come to life. The pair attended La Salle College in Montreal where the idea grew. At 20 years old, the dream came alive in the form of Mackage.
Mackage is best known for their outerwear. Their coats are not only fashionable and beautifully tailored, but they are also warm and functional. These are stylish winter coats that can actually withstand a Montreal winter. They create elegant, timeless silhouettes with their leather, wool and fur lined coats that women of every age crave.
Celebrities Halle Berry, Andie McDowell and Catherine Zeta-Jones have discovered the luxury of each Mackage coat.
Ten years later, Mackage is internationally known. They recently opened a store in Paris and showed at New York Fashion Week for the third time. In 2009, the design duo debuted a new line, Soia & Kyo. This line is more youthful with bright colours and less of a focus on leather.
This year Mackage debuted their first full ready-to-wear collection to positive reviews. This dream is not over yet.
While the opening day of New York Fashion Week was overshadowed by the tragic death of designer Alexander McQueen, the shows went on.
Canadian outerwear designer Mackage kicked off shows at Bryant Park on Thursday morning. The Mackage Fall/Winter 2010 line included pieces in neutral colours: white, blue, grey, black and brown.
WWD called the Mackage line “a fun and edgy outing.” The line included leather studded shorts, pencil skirts, and skinny pants. The outerwear ranged from leather jackets to wool coats and warm winter coats with fur lined hoods.
See the finale of the Mackage Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show here:
Canadian fashion designers are joining the worldwide fundraising efforts for Haiti.
Tomorrow night at the Roosevelt Room in Toronto, Canadian fashion designers will team up with Cosmo TV at the Haute Couture For Haiti event raising money for Plan Canada to support relief efforts in Haiti. Designers David Dixon, Aime, Franke and Project Runway Canada contestants Lucian Matis, Jessica Biffi, Vawk, and Brandon Dwyer will show at the event. Town Shoes will be supplying footwear for the fashion show.
The designers will be showing pieces from their Spring/Summer 2010 lines, which will be auctioned off later in the evening.
Tickets can be purchased ahead of time for $40 or at the door for $60.
Outside of Canada more fashion fundraisers for Haiti continue. It was announced today that Beyonce is the face of the campaign for the Fashion For Haiti t-shirt. The Council Of Fashion Designers Of America has created the shirt. They will donate all of the money raised by sales of the $25 t-shirt to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared may be based out of Milan now, but these Canadian fashion designers never miss a chance to pay tribute to their roots. In their recent menswear show in Milan, Dsquared paid tribute to Canada’s favourite past time hockey.
Now the fashion designers are celebrating their Canadian pride with a limited-edition fleece hoodie that will be sold exclusively at Holt Renfrew. Just in time for the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The men’s and women’s cotton fleece hoodie features a big red maple leaf in the middle with the words Dsquared and Canada. The hoodie will cost $350 CAN at select Holt Renfrew stores across the country. Dean and Dan Caten will be heading to Vancouver to celebrate their new partnership with Holt Renfrew.
As the official Headline Talent Costume Designers for the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, you can expect to see a lot of Dsquared throughout February. You can catch the Launch My Line stars at Vancouver’s Holt Renfrew on February 13th and they will be running the Olympic torch through North Vancouver on February 10th at approximately 11:50 a.m.
You can find more information on Olympic clothing here and shop at The Bay, Birks, Old Navy, Roots and Lululemon to get more Olympic themed clothes.
To celebrate another year, Canadian fashion designer Andy The-Anh has announced that he is changing the identity of his brand for 2010.
Starting for the Fall-Winter 2010 season, Andy The-Anh will launch a new signature and logo to enhance the luxury fashion line. In a press release, the company says that they are launching the new brand identity to “mark a milestone” and “look to the future.”
In conjunction with the new look and feel, Andy The-Anh is opening two new stores in Toronto. The Andy The-Anh boutique on Yorkville Ave. will be closing, but a new location in Yorkville will be opening at 27 Bellair Street, as well a new boutique at 2901 Bayview Ave.
As a part of their new brand, Andy The-Anh has released a preview of what we can expect from his upcoming Fall-Winter 2010 line. See the photos below for a preview. See Real Style’s review of his spring collection here.
The best part of Real Style is finding great fashion looks at affordable prices. The Joe Fresh fashion line offers everyone a chance at stylish clothes.
The fashion line has been sold in Loblaws grocery stores since 2006. After much success, Joe Fresh is expanding to test their concept. A new 8,000 square foot store on Queen Street in Toronto will be the new Joe Fresh flagship store set up to compete with the likes of H&M and Zara for low priced, stylish, fast fashion.
According to Macleans magazine, Joe Fresh is the second biggest Canadian fashion brand right now. With skirts, sweaters and skinny jeans available for $29, it’s no surprise that smart moms and fashion lovers looking for a bargain are catching on to the fashion line.
Joe Mimran is the designer behind the affordable Joe Fresh line. He is the retail success story behind the hugely popular Club Monaco and Caban stores and has created a white label fashion brand for Holt Renfrew. His wife Kim Newport Mimran is the creative powerhouse behind the high fashion Canadian line, Pink Tartan.
Canadian fashion designers Dsquared wowed the audience and paid homage to their home country in Milan this week as they served up their hockey themed Fall-Winter 2010 menswear line.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Dsquared show started off with a bang early in the morning with Bill Kaulitz from the popular German band Tokio Hotel stomping the runway in leather pants and fluffy leather wings. Reports say that Dsquared will be creating the costumes for the next Tokio Hotel tour which is why they asked him to open the show. It didn’t stop there though.
The DSquared show was themed The Hockey Horror DSquared Show with a faux ice catwalk, hockey sticks and music from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The models were bruised and bloody and looked ready for a fight on the ice in their new designer clothes.
The line had jersey style shirts with leather appliques featuring maple leafs and hockey mask images. Some of the clothes were blood splattered, which may or may not have been a part of the show or actually what the clothes will look like off the rack. Studded leather, denim, chains around the waist or neck and rasta caps were all featured in this masculine winter line.
Dan Caten told The Toronto Star: We created three different themes, threw them in a blender and created something new… It’s like Freddie Kruger goes to bed with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and ended up in a threesome with Jason.
This isn’t the first time that DSquared have honoured their Canadian roots in a fashion show. Last year the themed was Algonquin Park camping.
A new denim company is coming to Canada offering women of all shapes and sizes the perfect fitting jeans and they are called OneUp sized jeans.
Little In The Middle have solved the universal problem of jeans that many women share. They have designed a new pair of jeans that is one size smaller in the waist than the hips and thighs. This means that your jeans will fit your curves with no gaps around the waist.
The size chart works like this. If you are an 8 in regular jeans, then in OneUp sizes you would be an 8.1 meaning the waist would be an 8, but the hip size would be a 10. This will work for women who are pear or hourglass shaped perfectly.
Lee Ann Park, company founder, created her first pair of OneUp size jeans back in 2005 after much research when she saw a need for clothes that fit a woman’s body.
The jeans come in a huge variety of colours and style including dark wash, distressed, red, pink, white and yellow. Prices range from $99.00 to $129.00.
Previously only available in the US, these jeans are now coming to Canada. Little In The Middle is working with Double J Fashion Group to bring Canadian women the perfect fitting jeans ( yes we had a chuckle at the names also).
Real Style Network understands that all women are not build like supermodels and have curves and different body types, so we think this new idea of making jeans that fit all of these different body types is a great idea.
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Due to the fact that Real Style Network has received so many inquiries on where to find the Olympic red mittens, we wanted to let our readers know where to buy a pair of your own.
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While the opening day of New York Fashion Week was overshadowed by the tragic 
Canadian fashion designers are joining the worldwide fundraising efforts for Haiti.
Dean and Dan Caten of 
The best part of Real Style is finding great fashion looks at affordable prices. The 
