The Weekend To-Do: The MMVAs, the Girls season finale, Metric’s new album and cultural alternatives to Father’s Day celebrations
After a crazy week of cover shoots, our seasonal trend presentation and some hot, hot weather, everyone here at FASHION is ready to unwind. This weekend we’re updating our iPods for summer road trips, bidding adieu to our Girls, keeping an eye out for an Avril-style wardrobe malfunction at the Chum City Building and paying homage to our dads.
Hot Chip’s In Our Heads
The London dance outfit generated a ton of buzz when it released the video for “Night and Day” featuring a futuristic-looking Lara Stone flying a UFO. Although we may not have a spaceship to fly (yet), we’re still making In Our Heads our official summer driving/biking/walking soundtrack.
Lab Consignment Pop-Up Shop
Lauren Baker’s designer consignment store has been deeply missed by downtowners since it relocated uptown from its central Queen and Ossington spot. Get your fix of her one-of-a-kind wares without the trek when she pops up shop on Dundas this weekend.
Life of Manek, 1504 Dundas St. W., Toronto
June 14 to 28
2012 Much Music Video Awards
Will someone maybe, finally, call Carly Rae Jepsen? Will rabid Bieber fans breach the security fence? Will hosts LMFAO make us ROTFL? The only thing we know for sure is that anything goes at the MMVAs.
Red carpet starts at 8 p.m. on MuchMusic
Metric’s Synthetica
After writing music for the Twilight: Eclipse and Cosmopolis soundtracks, Toronto’s Metric is back with a new and surprisingly dark studio album. Songs like “Youth Without Youth,” “The Void” and “Speed the Collapse” evoke the “nightmare robot” character that front-woman Emily Haines told FASHION she had in mind when writing Synthetica.
Girls Season Finale
Season one of the phenom that is Lena Dunham’s Girls comes to a close this Sunday with an invitation to “the most important party of Jessa’s life.” Hopefully Shoshanna won’t misplace her bottoms at this one.
June 17 at 10 p.m. on HBO
Ryoji Ikeda at DHC/ART
Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda presents two site-specific installations at Montreal’s DHC/ART. Systematics consists of framed works, lightboxes and sculptural pieces while Datamatics imagines the digital streams floating all around us.
DHC/ART, 451 and 465 St-Jean St., Montreal
June 14 to Nov. 18
Father’s Day
Show dad your love in style this Sunday with a little something from FASHION’s Father’s Day gift guide. Post–brunch date, daughters of Vancouver can treat their pops to Bard on the Beach’s performance of The Taming of the Shrew; those in Toronto to Luminato’s Symphonic Finale.
Bard on the Beach
Vanier Park, Vancouver
June 17, 7 p.m.
Symphonic Finale
David Pecaut Square, Toronto
June 17, 7 p.m.
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After a crazy week of cover shoots, our seasonal trend presentation and some hot, hot weather, everyone here at FASHION is ready to unwind. This weekend we’re updating our iPods for summer road trips, bidding adieu to our Girls, keeping an eye out for an Avril-style wardrobe malfunction at the Chum City Building and paying homage to our dads.
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Hot Chip’s In Our Heads
The London dance outfit generated a ton of buzz when it released the video for “Night and Day” featuring a futuristic-looking Lara Stone flying a UFO. Although we may not have a spaceship to fly (yet), we’re still making In Our Heads our official summer driving/biking/walking soundtrack.
Lab Consignment Pop-Up Shop
Lauren Baker’s designer consignment store has been deeply missed by downtowners since it relocated uptown from its central Queen and Ossington spot. Get your fix of her one-of-a-kind wares without the trek when she pops up shop on Dundas this weekend.
Life of Manek, 1504 Dundas St. W., Toronto
June 14 to 28
2012 Much Music Video Awards
Will someone maybe, finally, call Carly Rae Jepsen? Will rabid Bieber fans breach the security fence? Will hosts LMFAO make us ROTFL? The only thing we know for sure is that anything goes at the MMVAs.
Red carpet starts at 8 p.m. on MuchMusic
Metric’s Synthetica
After writing music for the Twilight: Eclipse and Cosmopolis soundtracks, Toronto’s Metric is back with a new and surprisingly dark studio album. Songs like “Youth Without Youth,” “The Void” and “Speed the Collapse” evoke the “nightmare robot” character that front-woman Emily Haines told FASHION she had in mind when writing Synthetica.
Girls Season Finale
Season one of the phenom that is Lena Dunham’s Girls comes to a close this Sunday with an invitation to “the most important party of Jessa’s life.” Hopefully Shoshanna won’t misplace her bottoms at this one.
June 17 at 10 p.m. on HBO
Ryoji Ikeda at DHC/ART
Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda presents two site-specific installations at Montreal’s DHC/ART. Systematics consists of framed works, lightboxes and sculptural pieces while Datamatics imagines the digital streams floating all around us.
DHC/ART, 451 and 465 St-Jean St., Montreal
June 14 to Nov. 18
Father’s Day
Show dad your love in style this Sunday with a little something from FASHION’s Father’s Day gift guide. Post–brunch date, daughters of Vancouver can treat their pops to Bard on the Beach’s performance of The Taming of the Shrew; those in Toronto to Luminato’s Symphonic Finale.
Bard on the Beach
Vanier Park, Vancouver
June 17, 7 p.m.
Symphonic Finale
David Pecaut Square, Toronto
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