In Love Travel

Travel & Interpretation

Posted on July 3, 2018

Mornings and nights, that’s what I love about travel.  That first sound before you open your sleepy eyes or the murmuring of 1am laughter on the streets as you close them.  For every new place I have gone, there is some unknown bird’s chirp, like the parrots flitting between pinky June blossoms in Barcelona, or morning smells, like the frying bread of rural vendors as they try to feed Beijing’s bleary-eyed who are looking for breakfast.  At night, the tinkling of glasses of those out late sharing stories in unfamiliar tongues over rioja and pintxos in the Basque or in a piazza in Sienna (or, …

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Sarah Perkonig

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In Love Beauty

Kunye Complexion Company

Posted on September 17, 2017

I first got the chance to meet Melissa at a pop-up event last August.  A friend and I sauntered through rows of lovely hand-made things, but we both stopped at Kunye’s table – the packaging was gorgeous and so was Melissa’s skin.  We didn’t chat long, but long enough that I picked up her Bamboo Rose face mist (infused with sea-salt and a heavenly rose scent) and long enough to hear the passion about her products in her voice.  That face mist lasted an entire year with almost daily use, and seemed to bring my skin back from the dead after long nights of studying and shoving chocolate bars in my face. …

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Sarah Perkonig

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In Love Fashion

Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week 2017 – Evan Ducharme

Posted on August 2, 2017

I knew of Evan Ducharme through involvement in Vancouver’s Eco Fashion Week, where he had previously participated in 2013’s “68 Pound Challenge” (a number signifying the amount of clothing the average person discards each year, which has since increased to 81 pounds) – but I hadn’t actually been privileged enough to see anything of his walk the runway.  Sad Mag did a brief interview on that collection here, and his talent is abundantly clear.  Ducharme’s work, entirely made out of reused Value Village materials, looks like something out of the pages of Porter magazine – sleek, expensive, and impeccably tailored.  As I had …

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Sarah Perkonig

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In Love Fashion

Hermit & Anemone

Posted on January 6, 2017

On a golden fall day not too long ago, I got be the lucky lady to model Hermit & Anemone’s newest silk scarf creations: a gorgeous collection of prints and colours just asking to be blown in a fresh Spring breeze.

The two lovely ladies behind Hermit & Anemone are Jordanna Leah and Tehya MacKenzie, designer and photographer, respectively.  While it may seem from the seamlessness of their work that the two have been a creative duo for some time, they had actually only discussed the concept of designing scarves the day before Tehya was out the door to live abroad – and still decided …

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Sarah Perkonig

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In Love Fashion

Truvelle Bridal’s 2017 Launch

Posted on September 23, 2016

I was lucky enough to get to Truvelle’s event last night, where they launched their 2017 line of ethereally effortless gowns.  While the owner and founder of Truvelle, Gaby Bayona, has been in love with wedding couture from her childhood days (stemming from watching her wedding-seamstress mother constantly handle beautiful garments), it has only been since 2014 that Truvelle began to take shape.  23 year-old Gaby confessed to us all that it had been her dream to launch a wedding dress atelier, which she set about to establish at the ripe old age of 20.  Many thanks, of course, to mom – a sentiment most …

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Sarah Perkonig

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In Love Books

Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur

Posted on May 9, 2016

I first heard of Canadian poet Rupi Kaur in Flare Magazine’s most recent edition, but her name was only something I glanced over – one of the “60 Under 30!” mentions. It wasn’t until a lunch-break browse through the bookstore on Granville Street that her sleek black book, “Milk and Honey” (for $15) stopped me. Maybe it was the matte cover, or the pencil-thin drawings of a bees, but whatever it was, once I picked it up to scan the pages I knew I had to buy it.

The part in me that has had the inability to articulate the process of becoming and finding …

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Sarah Perkonig

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