Advertisement

Lifestyle

The week’s news, views and sales

RAC goes south

Yorkville’s RAC Boutique (124 Cumberland, 647-352-4433, racboutique.com) is bringing its stylish wares down to Queen West for a pop-up shop starting today (Thursday, March 28) at Love of Mine (781A Queen West, 416-368-4999, loveofmineboutique.com). Look for sale items plus a selection of new spring merch and 20 per cent discounts for MasterCard users as part of the Fashion Week-timed Stylicity campaign. A kick-off party takes place this evening from 7 to 10 pm. The pop-up will be open until April 7.

Dumaine for the weekend

Also popping up a few blocks west on Friday and Saturday (March 29 and 30) is designer Valérie Dumaine’s (valeriedumaine.com) temporary store at Oz Studios (134 Ossington). Standout spring pieces from the Montrealer include skirts in shades of peach and blue, printed rompers and great short dresses. Check out her web boutique (shopvaleriedumaine.com) to create your shopping list.

Textile twinkle

Things are about to get all sparkly over at the Textile Museum of Canada (55 Centre, 416-599-5321, textilemuseum.ca). The just-opened Shine exhibition features glittering fabrics including embellished Indian silks, silver Chinese robes and artworks made from discarded lottery tickets, soda drink cans and tin foil by Carmelo Arnoldin, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, and Ghost of a Dream. The show continues until June 9.

Sweet Deals

The Spring Sunglass Sale is on now at Josephson Opticians (60 Bloor West, 416-964-7070, and others, josephson.ca). Pick out a fresh pair of frames at up to 50 per cent off until April 13. And at Grassroots (372 Danforth, 416-466-2841 and 408 Bloor West, 416-944-1993, grassrootsstore.com), certified organic and fair trade sheets by GLO are marked down 15 per cent.

Advertisement

Exclusive content and events straight to your inbox

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

By signing up, I agree to receive emails from Now Toronto and to the Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.