Last Saturday, I stopped by Roden Gray, a relatively new and upscale men’s boutique in Vancouver’s Gastown area. There, my friend Ryan filled me in on the shops concept and brands. Overall, the space is well designed, the garments and products are cleverly merchandised, and the vibe is somewhat mature when compared with the streetwear/sneaker [...]

In The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City, author Elizabeth Currid articulates how the New York economy (one of the largest regional economies in the world) is propelled by the artists, writers, fashion designers and musicians that live there, equally as much as those in the white-collar/financial sectors. Since culture [...]

British Columbia is known worldwide for it’s famous “BC Bud”. In Vancouver, you’re more likely to catch a whiff of a freshly sparked blunt than you are to catch aromas of say, a nearby restaurant. Everyone seems to smoke pot in this city, and just about anywhere you go, people young and old can [...]

Sean Orr is a man that lives in a Gastown loft and is somewhat a minimalist. “I have a tattoo that say tattoo. I think that is funny. I don’t like cars, corporate media, advertising, factory farming, the GDP, TV, republicans, corn, Korn, yoga wear, yoga, people who do yoga, Yoda, seniors, homophobes, xenophobes, people [...]

As artist-designed interiors gain popularity among Vancouver’s more aesthetically minded residents, it’s only natural that the culture would eventually give birth to some form of rogue competition.
Enter Graham Oatman. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Oatman relocated to Vancouver after he kerouac’d his way across the continental United States, ultimately choosing Vancity as the place to hang [...]

Swiss design duo Cédric Decroux and Yves Fidalgo realize the importance of not wasting a single drop of rainwater that could be used for your home, garden, or planters. Their ingenious product, the reLEAF rain collector, is manufactured from thermo-lacquered aluminum and designed to function exactly how a leaf would in nature. By inserting it [...]