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Worn Fashion Journal
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Independent Canadian print publication dealing with the ideas and concepts of clothing from a cultural, historical, political and personal perspective.
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Are You Ready For Heartbreak Karaoke?

Sing Your Heartbreak Out from worn on 8tracks. To prepare for next Tuesday’s Heartbreak Karaoke, the Wornettes rounded up some of our favourite songs about love and loss. Of course, this is jus...

3 days ago

10 Things About: Emilie Flöge

The desolate starry nights of Van Gogh and the sinister black cat of the Chat Noir cabaret always seem to follow me when I step into a print store or art supply shop. The quantity of these images see...

4 days ago 2 people like this

Crushing on Citizen Vintage

Citizen Vintage is one of our favourite haunts in Montreal—and not just because they act as our unofficial spokeswomen in the city, representing WORN at craft shows and hosting issue launch parties. ...

6 days ago 3 people like this

Goodbye Eiko Ishioka

Eiko Ishioka, celebrated costume designer for film and theatre, passed away two weeks ago at the age of 73. Her success as a costume designer came toward the end of a long career including stints in ...

05 feb 12 1 person likes this

Keeping Don Draper in Business: Vintage Advertising

A few months ago, my print-obsessed self saved some old copies of New York Magazine from a trash can. The ads I found inside were either too gorgeous or amusing to keep to myself, so I thought, who b...

03 feb 12

WORN Wants You To Sing Your Heart Out

Was it the son of a preacher man? A devil in a blue dress? You obviously didn’t listen—but now everyone else will. On Tuesday, February 14th, 2012, WORN Fashion Journal will get your achey-breakey he...

01 feb 12

Nailing It: A Love Story

Black and pink nails with kitten paw prints, for WORN’s Black Cat Ball Here’s a story I probably should not tell: my laptop, which was really my boyfriend’s old laptop, recently bec...

30 jan 12 1 person likes this

Book Review: Waisted Curves

When handed this book, I felt like I was intruding—the hand crafted spine creaked with hours of the author’s labor, and the muted green fabric frayed at the corners. I felt as though I had been hande...

27 jan 12 1 person likes this

Pencil Skirts and Crayon Pants

Last month we invited everyone at City of Craft to sit down and sketch memorable moments that have defined their sartorial selves. The drawings were too charming to keep confined to the office walls,...

25 jan 12

The Beauty in Binding

Binders are the antithesis of a bra. Bras, with their tendency to be colourful and embellished, are available in wild and wondrous patterns and shapes of every sort; they’re built to cup and li...

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

Danger Never Looked so Good

I’ve recently become addicted to the filmography of Alfred Hitchcock. Whenever something by the Master of Suspense is playing, you can’t not keep your eyes on the screen. Not only are the...

20 jan 12

Crushing on Audrey Cantwell

Audrey Cantwell portrait by Yuli Sato Montreal designer Audrey Cantwell stays true to her own vision. From her line Ovate, which she designs and makes, to the goth, grunge-inflected vintage finds at ...

18 jan 12 2 people like this

We Don’t Joke When It Comes To Bespoke (Except for This Joke Here)

Bespoke. When I first heard the word, I thought it meant some kind of talking, as in, “He bespoke of the movie,” or, “I bespoke the truth.” Needless to say, that’s not w...

16 jan 12 1 person likes this

It’s a Barbie World, We All Just Live In It

From a young age, the line “Being plastic is fantastic!,” always associated with Barbie, was ingrained in my head. I never thought too critically about it—it was a catchy little rhyme—but as I grew o...

13 jan 12 1 person likes this

The Low Down on Downs Designs

At first glance, we seem bombarded with clothing options. Never before in history have there been so many stores and styles to chose from. Don’t like the ‘fast fashion’ of the malls? There are vintag...

11 jan 12

Sweater Serger-y: Mending Night is Back!

Pinking shears no more! A serger (or an overlock machine, if you are fancy like that) will cut the fabric and finish the edge all in one fell swoop of the presser foot. For January mending night we w...

10 jan 12

Inquire Within: Fashion and Research

Do you remember that moment when you realized you really liked fashion? That transition when your interest in dress, adornment and clothing went from a passive form of enjoyment to an unquenchable cu...

09 jan 12 1 person likes this

WORN Gift Packs: Now With More Issue 10!

Bummed about returning to work or school now that the holidays are over? Why not take a breather from homework and check out WORN Gift Packs? Each one now contains issues six through ten, plus two pi...

06 jan 12

Fashion Nerds Converge

“I always sit in the front row,” I overheard a young woman tell her friend. “I’m a nerd.” I could relate. A nerd myself, I arrived early at Convergence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fashion, Rye...

04 jan 12

Get Involved With WORN

Is your new year’s resolution to work in independent fashion publishing? Are you not sure where to start in seeking the job you’ve always dreamed about? You’re in luck! WORN is curr...

02 jan 12

DIY Sleepovers: Bubbly, Baking, and Barrettes

Gluing things to other things has always been a favourite pastime of mine. Add champagne, my best friend and nighties and you’ve got a recipe for the best slumber party since The Baby-Sitters C...

26 dec 11 1 person likes this

WTFashion: Water Bottle Headpiece

This photo series by Tomaas called Plastic Fantastic creates headgear like you’ve never seen. Check out more here.

23 dec 11

Is The WORN Express Headed For Your Christmas Tree?

The WORN Express We are making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who’s naughty and nice. WORN Fashion Journal is coming to town! That’s how the song goes, right? Just realized ...

21 dec 11

The Girls Who

From the mid-1990s to early 2000s, there was a sort of moral panic associated with “hackers” and this crazy newfangled thing called the Internet. Movies like Hackers and The Matrix treate...

19 dec 11

Book Review: 50s Fashion

Pepin Press is a Dutch publishing house started as a one-man graphic design and book production operation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Run by namesake Pepin van Roojen, these books all seem to focus on...

17 dec 11

Don’a-tell-a Donatella: How I Defied the Versace Brand by Wearing their Clothes while also Being a ...

Versace was always a little too much for me—too bright, too tight, too sex-bomb. But when a girl I know pulled this dress out of her filing cabinet (a fashion magic trick) and offered it to me, how c...

14 dec 11

Awesome Ladies Read WORN

From left: Jane, Edith, SNP, and Inez from Magic Pony We asked for our readers to send in pictures of themselves reading Issue 13 of WORN, and they did not disappoint. Our readers are all total babes...

12 dec 11

This is Our Last Post About the Black Cat Ball, I Swear

It’s been almost a month since our issue 13 launch party, and the photos are still trickling in. (Couldn’t make it? You can buy the issue online here.) Once again, there are way more on o...

10 dec 11 1 person likes this

YouTube Gurus

Sometime last year, my television went kaput, and my heart was left with a void that I slowly replaced with a YouTube obsession. The beauty gurus and their elaborate tutorials are a particular favour...

09 dec 11

Replacing a Skirt Waistband

A handful of years ago, back when I lived in Washington, I picked up a circle skirt at a favourite second-hand store. Even though it was both adorable and affordable, for some reason I hardly ever wo...

07 dec 11

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