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MONTREAL Maybe it's all that snow; TechnoMarine's Ceramique ($3,200) comes in several colors, but Canadian women overwhelmingly choose white...
...DECONSTRUCTED Thanks to designers like Alber Elbaz at Lanvin and Consuelo Castiglione from Marni, all that is slightly unraveled now looks chic. The Canadian luxury label Ports 1961 takes its inspiration from the worn-in look of a global traveler?albeit one who stops in exotic locales. Costume-jewelry designer Roxanne Assoulin is selling out of her slightly rough-around-the-edges ribbon-and-crystal necklaces for Lee Angel...
...LASER CUT Furniture or sculpture? The answer was both for the vanguard brother-sister team of Thien and My Ta Trung at Canadian design studio Periphere when they created the all-steel, rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated...
...these are not normal times, and one reason is Conservative leader Harper. Opponents have been able to paint him as a right-wing yahoo who will undo many of social programs so cherished by the left-leaning Canadian establishment. The Liberals' "greatest ally is Mr. Harper," author Andrew Cohen writes in the Ottawa Citizen. Expect the Liberals to try to demonize Harper again this campaign and then expect a tit-for-tat Tory response to degenerate into the sort of political food fight that will only turn off more voters...
...future...the future of the party, that of sovereignty, and of course, for the future of Quebec,” he wrote. While some observers have noted Boisclair’s unorthodox political background, others like Randall K. Morck, Harvard’s visiting King professor of Canadian studies, feel that Boisclair’s new prominence in Quebec does little to refashion politics or the separatist movement in the French-speaking province. “This heralds no major changes,” Morck wrote in an e-mail. “Boisclair is very much an insider...