EDITOR’S LETTER/ CONTRIBUTORS

On a rainy afternoon in June, I arrived in Toronto’s financial district to meet the team photographing the fashion feature for this issue of Style Advisor. It was my first in-person shoot in almost a year, but, in many ways, the energy of the city made it feel like no time had passed at all. While photographer Ted Belton snapped away, the patio at Bymark, a power lunch destination at the base of the Toronto-Dominion Centre, was bustling. At Union Station, the arrivals hall filled with passengers in polo shirts and shorts who looked confusingly at our models in their thick autumn coats.

The disjointed scene captured the pull between past, present and future that many of us are feeling and reflects a question that carries through this issue, our annual fashion and beauty guide: How do you express yourself through style without falling into old habits? Some of the answers include discovering new clothes designed for ever more hybridized lifestyles (“New business,” PAGE 28), developing a deeper understanding of how your purchasing power can influence sustainability (“Growing season,” PAGE 38) and embracing the impulse for a radical makeover in moments of transition (“Make the cut,” PAGE 40).

As you may have noticed from our refreshed cover, this edition marks a transition for the magazine as well. Over the next four issues, we’re celebrating 10 years of Style Advisor. We’ve added more pages to our shoppable Essentials section, starting on PAGE 13, to highlight the best luxury timepieces, automobiles and technology. Our new back page is a memoir on style and identity, starting with a reflection on the joy of dressing up for going out (“Best dressed,” PAGE 46). And a new anniversary feature looks at where style is headed next by surveying influential Canadians who are reshaping the industry (“September issues,”