Canadian and American Bloggers (and other Media) to Know

Fashion Bloggers sat front row during Toronto’s recent LG Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011, just as they did at New York’s fashion week. Bloggers of note (and other media) at both include:

Satisfashion: Blogger Jay Strut (shown at left) is a fan of U.S. Elle style director Kate Lanphear. His blog shows pics of him with Lanphear and other fashion bigwigs (and sitting front row at fashion shows). He was among fashion insiders at Roosevelt Room and AME after-parties during LG Fashion Week in Toronto. He definitely has his own style, knows how to work it, and it really does work.

Birdcage magazine and blog: Set to launch in January 2011, this online fashion magazine start-up is founded by model and writer Nadia Genevieve Masri, who enlisted her top model friends as bloggers. She can be seen at both Toronto and New York fashion weeks. Watch for her to become even better known.

Destination Luxury: This company’s Web site states: “Destination Luxury scours the globe for alluring attractiveness, creating a landscape where design, travel, fashion, pampering and culinary delights intertwine.” David Christopher Lee, editor in chief, showed me his video footage at New York’s fashion week in September. I wanted to see more.

George Pimentel: The house photographer for LG Fashion Week mentors student photographers who assist him during the events. This links you to what torontolife.com had to say about him.

Fashion Television: OK. It’s not a blog, but worth pointing out that Fashion Television was well represented at both Toronto and New York fashion weeks. In Canada, Fashion Television is under the umbrella of CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster and most-watched television network (To find CTV's link to Fashion Television, follow the "Video" link on the CTV.ca homepage). CTV Inc. is owned by CTVGlobeMedia Inc., which also owns Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail.

Sandy Ramirez: This New York photographer, a regular contributor to the fashion Web site Modacycle, has his own photo blog, A Life in Pictures and Words. He's also house photographer for renowned New York designer Loris Diran.

StyleLikeU.com: Patrick Orcutt and Alex Chapman are both tall and thin, but it’s their personal styles and fashion sense that made them stand out at New York’s fashion week. And their fashion Web site is a standout, too.

Note: New York has its FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Parson’s Design School. Toronto’s counterpart is the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. Many of the fashionistas listed in We Know TV’s recent posts about Canadian fashion got their starts here.