Tantoo Cardinal Is Finally Free | ELLE Canada Magazine | Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Trends & Celebrity News
The celebrated Cree and Metis actor is looking to the future.
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Heather Diamond Strongarm Is Taking It All In Stride | ELLE Canada Magazine | Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Trends & Celebrity News
If you’ve been paying attention to the runways in the past few years, you might have noticed a brand-new face with incredible range. Model Heather Diamond Strongarm can do ethereal for Carolina Herrera, rock star for Versace or quirky for Jil Sander, and she has had the honour of closing for Marc Jacobs and opening and closing two separate shows for Dior.
Revitalizing Knowledge
Eagerly anticipated documentaries by Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson are finally being released this spring with recent Canadian debuts at Hot Docs and DOXA. Hubbard and Jackson take Indigenous experts as their subjects, one focusing on the conservation of buffalo in North America and the other focusing on star lore and astronomy. Both films feel urgent, capturing revitalized knowledge before it’s too late.
This Year’s Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival Is Sure to Impress
One of the busiest hubs in Toronto, with its constant swarms of people perusing the racks in its 230-plus shops, the CF Toronto Eaton Centre is about to turn into a completely different space: the venue for the 2024 Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival.
Ava DuVernay Is Taking a Look at the More Intimate Picture
When Ava DuVernay arrives in Toronto during early winter, her voice is raspy and well worn, but it’s the only indicator of how exhausted she is. Clad in flowing black pants, a turtleneck and a sprinkle of gold jewellery, the acclaimed director looks impossibly chic as she rises from a leather club chair in the green room at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre to warmly welcome me. DuVernay is in town to unveil the Lightbox’s newly christened Viola Desmond Cinema with Origin, her latest film.
Meet the First All-Indigenous Modelling Agency
It’s early October, and Vancouver-based entrepreneur Joleen Mitton is juggling planning the fourth edition of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW) and managing the world’s first Indigenous-owned modelling agency, Supernaturals Modelling. Between programming a slate of Indigenous designers—like Himikalas Pam Baker and Patricia Michaels—and overseeing the construction of the set for the event, as VIFW’s founder and artistic director, Mitton is supporting a lineup of models who will likely walk
Alexandra Lazarowich’s Winding Path
Alexandra Lazarowich, whose short doc Fast Horse earned a Special Jury Award for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, returned to Park City this year with another short doc that featured horses.
Six Miles from the Mouth of the River
I have the fuzziest recollection of the first time I heard a land acknowledgement, likely at an artist talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2016 or so. I would’ve been around thirty-five years old, and when the event host recited the acknowledgement, I was…confused.
It turned out that this was my first of many land acknowledgements I would experience. They would roll out time and time again, in educational, entertainment and sporting spaces, gaining steam over the last decade.
Canada's Indigenous Cuisine Is Booming — Here's Where to Taste It
A growing contingent of Indigenous-owned food ventures offers visitors a delicious way to explore Canada’s culture and cuisine.
Indigenous Weaver Naiomi Glasses Is Ralph Lauren’s First Artist in Residence
Southwestern-inspired patterns have been a staple of Ralph Lauren’s iconic designs for more than 56 years, born out of the designer’s fascination with Native American craftsmanship. On December 5, the homage is about to become way more authentic. In a deeply meaningful move towards collaboration, Ralph Lauren unveiled the first drop of a capsule collection made through its inaugural Artist in Residence program, starting with the renowned seventh-generation Diné weaver and textile artist Naiomi Glasses.
Meet The Canadians Who Made The World A Better Place in 2023
Connie Walker for telling Indigenous stories our country has overlooked for too long
#1: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Arts Presents: The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians
From the first shot of Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, as dogs howl on a frozen tundra in Nunavut before we’re launched into an Inuktitut-language story, I knew that I was watching something unlike anything I’d ever seen before.
Sarain Fox 2023 Empowers Queer and Indigenous Voices Through Film
"I really only have a decade to capture as many pieces of who I am, who this world is and who our elders are before it’s all lost forever."
Celebrated author Michelle Good expands the conversation about colonialism in new nonfiction work - Quill and Quire
Since her debut novel, Five Little Indians, was released in 2020, Michelle Good has received hundreds of emails from people thanking her for opening their eyes to the residential school experience.
One woman even apologized for being a racist all of her life, and she wrote that reading Good’s book – which humanizes five young adults as they navigate life post-residential school – had changed her into a better person.
In Toronto, a Townhouse Maintains a Punchy Profile While Fitting in With Its Neighbors
Off a main thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Eva Pianezzola’s house is tucked within a quiet street of Victorian townhomes. Its front facade blends in with the neighborhood of ornate redbrick mansions, but there are details—bright red trim at the windows and upside-down address numbers outside the front door—that hint at the surprising elements behind it.
5 Indigenous Makers On What Sustainability Means To Them
From durable materials and compostable packaging to innovative fabrics and circular fashion programs, here's how ethical practices have shaped their businesses.
Pamela Anderson Is On the Record
Anderson tells her side of a media-frenzied story in her autobiography and a new Netflix documentary.
Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order
An inversion of the usual whodunit, a new crime-of-the-week drama from the producers of “Homeland” and “24” puts ordinary people in extraordinary trouble.
How Two Young Climate Activists Are Tackling Water and Food Insecurity Across North America
With a name derived from the Lakota tribe’s historical Tokala Society—a group of warriors who showed bravery and leadership from a young age—Tokala is a photography series spotlighting the next generation of BIPOC climate activists. Here, in part three, meet two activists working on the eastern shores of Canada and the US to improve water and food security within their own communities and far beyond.
In 2022, Kent Monkman went legendary with a celebration of the spirit that survived colonization | Arts
His ROM solo show Being Legendary brings an incisive eye to the story of Indigenous knowledge across time
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