“Somebody has to talk to the world,” says Yuxweluptun. “I have to teach people to respect what we have.”

Released annually since 1845, the Blue Book is the apogee of the house’s creative achievement, where the most beautiful geological specimens unearthed throughout the year go to shine.

Dior watches

For spring 2016, Victoire de Castellane, creative director of Dior Fine Jewellery, has released a nine-watch collection inspired by the carnival vibrancy of Christian Dior’s birthplace, the seaside village of Granville on France’s Normandy coast.

Met Breuer

The exhibit encourages visitors to the Upper East Side’s Museum Mile to consider the concept of completeness from a new perspective.

Spring 2016: Gianvito Rossi, FYI Style

“My house was on top of my father’s factory, which was kind of a playground for me,” explains designer Gianvito Rossi. “The shoes, heels, leathers, were like Lego to me. They were like toys.”

Coco Rocha

From the deep, classic red of the line’s Ruby Ripple shade to the unexpectedly flattering purple-y hue of Iced Iris, the collection delivers beauty, without compromise.

From a gutsy rhubarb to almond-anise, and blackberries-and-cream, we review three new perfumes to consider adding to your collection.

Easter French Hen

The final product comes filled—should you have the heart to crack it—with crispy almond-praline eggs.

Columbia Outdry Extreme

The OutDry Extreme jacket allows one to stay focused on the pleasures of exploring the great outdoors, without drearily becoming uncomfortable, miserable, and damp.

To visit the islands is to expose oneself to a vast and powerful beauty; its old cedar forests and brisk beaches contribute to an almost mystic atmosphere.

A taste of Haida Gwaii

A scrapbook-style compilation of recipes, legends, photographs, narratives, and local knowledge novelist, poet, and first-time cookbook author Musgrave has amassed since moving to Graham Island in the late seventies, reading A Taste of Haida Gwaii feels akin to exploring the Canada’s enigmatic westernmost archipelago with a funny and insightful personal guide.

Susan Miller

Having recently profiled Susan in our spring issue, we cheekily requested whether the cosmic grande dame might find the time to perform a dedicated chart reading for December 9, 1997—the incorporation date/birthday of NUVO magazine.

Nicole Fung

Fong’s blog features everything from reviews of some of the most critically-acclaimed restaurants in the world (see D.O.M. Brazil, Amber Hong Kong, and Septime Paris) to insight on where to simply score a quality plate of noodles or chicken wings from Boston to Beijing, making it a comprehensive resource for discerning, jet-set foodies.

Prouvé Raw Office Edition

The collection is inspired by a series of chairs and tables originally created by French modernist designer Jean Prouvé in the 1940s for use in French factories and workshops. Its shades of avocado and olive green and stylishly stark lines of steel and solid oak timber pay tribute to a bygone industrial age, and yet feel timeless and appropriate for a modern creative agency.

Mikimoto Coral

As this year’s awards approach and the style set bubbles with anticipation over who will wear what, we wonder if the sea-borne jewel will once again make a splash—and covet a coral-inspired pair of Mikimoto dazzlers ourselves.

MashUp

Upon entering the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new MashUp exhibit, visitors are immediately immersed in a massive site-specific instillation by 71-year-old L.A.-based conceptual artist Barbara Kruger. The piece, Untited (SmashUp), spirals around the room; its bold text warning us to beware of treating life like a spectacle, its emoji-esque faces staring through comma-eyes.

His work, mostly acrylic on canvas portraits and landscapes, belies an uncommon aptitude for capturing energy and narrative, and a keen sense of colour.

Herschel x Hudson's Bay Company

Named after a small Saskatchewan town, Vancouver-based backpack company Herschel Supply Co. has always been influenced by vintage Canadiana stylings. As a result, the brand’s new collaboration with Hudson’s Bay Company comes across as an innate synchronicity realized.

DE: Lily Guild

Toronto florist Dominika Solan’s aesthetic takes cues from the jam-packed vines and blooms splaying out of darkness in sixteenth-century Dutch oil paintings.

Lorraine Loots

Twenty-nine-year-old South African artist Lorraine Loots creates eight by ten millimetre portraits in which anything can be recast as a tiny delight, from a Malayan tapir calf, to a National Sea Rescue Institute boat, to a stellar jet streaking across the Grand Nebula.

“I’ve always been really inspired by lingerie–it’s this personal, hidden layer that has played such an important role in shaping women throughout history,” says Christina Remenyi, founder and creative director of Toronto-based lingerie company Fortnight.

“My customers are women who love clothes, who look at the label before buying because they have an appreciation for good materials and care about transparency and sustainability in how clothing is manufactured.”

Tracey Emin Jewellery

Artist Tracey Emin and jeweller Stephen Webster’s collection, entitled “I Promise to Love You”, is comprised of gold charms based on Emin’s drawings of forest animals, as well as rings, necklaces, and earrings crafted from personal phrases rendered in gold.

24 karat gold kit kat

In honour of Chinese New Year, Kit Kat Studio will offer an edible 24-karat gold leaf–enrobed Kit Kat bar flavoured with rare Feng Huang Dan Cong Oolong tea from Guangdong, rose petals, and sweet lychee, finished with rose jelly and wrapped in red silk.

Daily Edit: Eating (Entire) Animals - resized

Along with the renaissance of old-world culinary practises like canning, fermenting, cheese-making, and charcuterie, it seems the concept of using every little last bit has been born anew.

Nugateau Toronto

Once a bit of a dessert wallflower, inventive incarnations of the cream-filled choux batons have debuted worldwide; the éclair has been transformed into a confection as showy and scene-stealing as a full-fledged drag queen.

Daily Edit: Ice Bridge

Engineering students at Eindhoven University of Technology in Juuka, Finland, have set upon a new project—or rather, a very old one. They are building a bridge based on an obscure model designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1501; a project the Renaissance man intended to span 240-metres over the Golden Horn, an offshoot of the Bosphorus River.

Daily Edit: Ai Weiwei at the Bon Marche

Chinese architect, sculptor, video artist, and photographer Ai Weiwei just closed a show at the Louvre; but he is not finished with Paris yet.

Daily Edit: Champagne Life, Saatchi Gallery

Champagne Life is Saatchi Gallery’s first show to focus solely on increasing the visibility of work by international emerging female artists.

Pilgrimme, Galiano Island

Locating Pilgrimme involves some Hansel-and-Gretel-esque navigation of Galiano Island’s deer-flanked forest roads; the restaurant sits amid the trees, pouring music, golden light, and good smells from its windows.

Dolce Gabbana Abaya Hajib

Dolce & Gabbana’s new collection of abayas and hijabs nods to the line’s spring/summer 2016 runway show, with daisy, rose, and lemon motifs over sheer georgette and satin-weave charmeuse fabric trimmed in lace.

Galette des Rois

It would be a pity to consider New Year’s Day the last of winter’s festivities, particularly since January sixth marks the Epiphany, a traditional Christian commemoration of the Jesus’s baptism and the arrival of the three wise men, celebrated with (what else?) cake.

Daily Edit: Canada' Best Ice Cream, Mister

We asked judges in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto to select their respective cities’ finest ice creams. Here are Vancouver’s results.

NUVO Daily Edit: Patagonia’s Traceable Down

Most of outdoor clothing company Patagonia’s corporate responsibility feats are fluff. Or, perhaps better put, they are about fluff—feathers to be precise.

Daily Edit: Royal Grooming

This year, Truefitt & Hill turns 210 years old, making it the (Guinness World Record’s book-approved) oldest barbershop in the world.

Daily Edit: Oh, Tofino

Visitors to Tofino are often hooked on the town’s coastal charms from their first lungful of fresh, conifer-scented air. And yet, even though any who wander as far as the westernmost point of Vancouver Island have already traversed land and sea to reach the highway’s end, it’s finding comfortable beachfront accommodations that truly is the final frontier—especially for those travelling in a group.

DE: Savio

Rustic and sophisticated with a powerful team behind it, one imagines Osteria Savio Volpe will be the toast of the neighbourhood for a very long time.

Daily Edit: Bodega Ranch

Located on the northern end of the long, skinny blip that is British Columbia’s Galiano Island, Bodega Ridge Lodge fits the “rustic retreat” bill, with enough cozy comforts to put visitors at total ease.

Daily Edit: Diamond Christmas Crackers

Usually, when popped, a Christmas cracker releases a tumble of cheap and cheerful knick-knacks: a plastic ring, a lame joke, a paper crown for your uncle to comically forget he’s wearing when he begins to boozily pontificate about the state of the world.

Daily Edit: Nigella Lawson

More interested in authenticity than hipness, Nigella Lawson’s new book approaches food trends scrupulously, avoiding those that clash with her brusque, taste-first ethos.

Daily Edit: Chandelier Splendor, Baccarat

To celebrate the opening of its new Parisian boutique, 250-year-old crystal and glassware line Baccarat has strung twelve of its signature chandeliers over the narrow shopping thoroughfare of rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

“The Bentley Bentayga is extraordinary in many ways,” Michael Winkler, president and CEO of Bentley Americas, stated at the Vancouver unveiling of the Bentayga, which has now entered a market hungry for SUVs.

Starring John Malkovich and Chinese actress Shuya Chang, 100 Years: The Movie You Will Never See has been sealed in a custom Fichet-Bauche safe set to open automatically on November 18, 2115.

Daily Edit: Edgardo Osorio for Salvatore Ferragamo

Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo was only 16-years-old when he arrived in Hollywood, opening a little bespoke shoe shop that quickly became a favourite amongst Golden Age starlets—Jean Harlow, Lauren Bacall, and Audrey Hepburn all glided across red carpets in Ferragamo heels.

DE: Cornucopia

Ten-day long food and wine festival Cornucopia has enlivened Whistler Village’s autumnal shoulder season for almost 20 years.

DE: Andy Dixon

Vancouver artist Andy Dixon has opened Leisure Studies, his first New York solo show, bringing his signature vibrant palette and elite subject matter to Nolita’s Rebecca Hossack Gallery.

Comprised of sheaves of optical acrylic fiber molded by hand in a 400 degree oven, Alex Josephson’s Gweilo fixtures rise up from the ground like undulating, tissue-thin stalagmites, casting a luminous glow.

In 2014, the co-founders of Artigiani Milanesi packed their entire artisanal cashmere manufacturing business into two 40-foot-long shipping containers and left the industrial bustle of Milan. Their destination was Bowen Island: 50 square kilometres of forested, rocky beach-rimmed land in Vancouver’s Howe Sound.

DE: Angelo

It really is a great photo. Grace Kelly, coolly beyond the fuss around her, emerges from a car wearing sunglasses and a fur coat. A hand reaches in from off-frame and holds the door for her, while a suit-clad Prince Rainier III gently supports her white-gloved wrist. It’s a moment in fashion history, captured.

Sixty-two-year-old Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli has taken a unique route with his eponymous line of cashmere and luxury sportswear pieces; Cucinelli, quite literally, has created his own community.

Daily Edit: Sweets

Fact: the average North American Halloween treat bucket harbours approximately 9,000 calories. In lieu of trick-or-treating, we chose to compile a list of eight Canadian confectioners who provide sophisticated sweets to suit the season.

DE: ghosts

With their crisp exteriors and marshmallow-soft centers, meringues are a confection too often relegated to summer pavlovas alone. How better to express how totally aghast we are at the idea that meringues are a summer food than by making a batch that screams “Halloween”?

Daily Edit: St. Regis and Christofle Saber

Champagne comes with inherent dramatic flair—after all, it’s classically celebratory and onomatopoeic to boot (pop! Spritz! Fizzle!). Now, thanks to St. Regis Hotels and French silver company Christofle, “swoosh” can be added to the mix—or, you know, whatever noise a saber makes as it cleanly sluices through glass.

DE: Prabal

Over the years, designers have found countless sources of inspiration for their creations, from the golden age of rail travel to science-fiction fantasy and everything in between. Often, these themes reflect the designer’s fascination du jour, usually something fun and aspirational—less common is it to see a collection informed by personal trauma.

DE: Pig Roast

Until the end of November, Vancouver’s Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar is hosting weekly Sunday night long table dinners featuring porchetta-style whole-roasted Sloping Hill Farm’s local pork on a platter.

DE: Irving Penn

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is the first retrospective of the American photographer’s work in 20 years.

DE: Butter Celebrates

Butter Celebrates! includes recipes intended to evoke warm associations for a calendar years’ worth of occasions, from Hanukkah sufganiyots with raspberry jelly to St. Patrick’s Day soda bread studded with raisins and zest, and pastel éclairs inspired by those featured in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which Daykin suggests for Easter.

In his third novel, The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things, Canadian comedian Charles Demers explores the defining traumas of his life through a series of abecedarian essays in which no topic is too sensitive.

DE: Smore

Few of one’s childhood experiences can be successfully recreated as an adult. Yet, sometimes a warm wave of nostalgia washes over us, and for a moment, we are transported back in time. Such advents are usually trigged—as Proust discovered with his madeleine dipped in lime-blossom tea—by an edible. For anyone who spent summers camping and made bonfires amid fall’s crunchy …

DE: Laneige

Mongolia may boast the best cashmere, and there’s a certain cache to wearing French perfume, but ask anyone with an awareness of the beauty industry where the world’s top skincare products come from and they will likely point to South Korea.

Aim to arrive at Ancora around sunset, when the bright, white space becomes saturated with light reflected off Vancouver’s False Creek.

NUVO Daily Edit: Circa 1948

Amid the glittering skyscrapers so emblematic of Vancouver’s present and future, artist Stan Douglas finds substance in the city’s grittier past. “I wouldn’t say I’m nostalgic,” says Douglas of the installation. “Vancouver circa 1948 was not necessarily great.”

NUVO Daily Edit: Low Rider

The paradox of Antarctica is that its geographical remoteness and inhospitable climate actually enhance its appeal—especially for that particular subset of adventure-seeking vacationers for whom the southernmost point of the globe exudes an almost mystical allure.

NUVO Daily Edit: How the Jet Set Cooks

Heidi Swanson’s fourth cookbook, Near & Far: Recipes Inspired by Home and Travel, is comprised of recipes inspired by either Swanson’s native Northern California or her beloved locales of Morocco, France, India, Italy, and Japan.

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