2008 Woodie Awards
The paradox of sustainable style
Roll out the green carpet: a new wave of fashionistas is here with both a product and a purpose. Eco-friendly fashion is a rising trend in an industry otherwise known for contributing a significant amount of pollutants and toxins into the environment. Like the little black dress, proponents of the fashion industry's green movement hope ecotoure will become timeless and traditional-a way of engaging a trendsetting industry that impacts everyone.
Green eye shadow is in
Fashion, not to be confused with style, has always been about keeping your eye on the latest trend. Naturally, no pun intended, being fashionable in the near future consists of being environmentally friendly. Now that eco-fashionable clothes, whether they're from Oqoqo by Lululemon or Go Green Go by Philip Lim and Anya Hindmarch "I'm not a plastic bag" bag, are popular, the next obvious step is to start using natural beauty products.
Twisting the traditional runway event, P[h]assion raises funds for AIDS
Love will be in the air this Thursday night at the annual P[h]assion AIDS benefit show. The popular event will feature McGill models, Montreal designers and urban and cabaret dancers parading the runway for a charitable cause. This year's theme, "L'Amour est en Vogue," will give the show a more romantic, Moulin Rouge kind-of-feel, says P[h]assion Co-Director Ze'na Belouizdad, U3 international business.
Taboo Cost: $26.49 at Amazon.com. Number of players: The box says four to ten, but if you're willing to make teams, you can play with as many people as you want. How you play: Players break into two teams. In each round, one player tries to get team members to guess as many words as possible before time runs out.
Because if you can't see it, it didn't happen
Whether to cover stains, keep your feet warm or simply to spice up your place, carpets come in handy for a variety of reasons-until they get dirty. Here are some ways to clean up last night's party that don't involve forking over some of the grocery budget to professional cleaners.
Beeting around the bush
Borscht, a soup that originated in the Ukraine but is now part of the traditional cuisines of many Eastern European countries, got its name from the old Slavic word for beet. There are as many varieties of borscht as there are Old World grandmothers, but the two general types of the dish are hot borscht, made with meat, and vegetarian cold borscht, a Polish version of which is shown here.
