In Vancouver, winter is just 6 months of rain. We might get a week of snow somewhere in there- two if we’re really lucky- but not much more. Berlin is a different animal altogether. At 53 degrees north, it’s about the same  latitude as Edmonton in Canada, and although it may not reach the same [...]

The Blanche MacDonald annual graduate’s fashion show put on last week was as perfectly constructed and woven together as the pieces of fabric each new designer used to create their final looks. It was professional, it was fabulous, and it was every bit the timeless, chic Blanche MacDonald style we’ve all come to expect. Located [...]

Hot on the heels of our trip to Marburg, and the university that the Brothers Grimm studied at, we decided to take a spooky tour of the graveyard they are buried in. In Berlin, where their gravesite is, it gets dark quite early- so our tour quickly went from early-evening walk, to spooky nighttime stroll through [...]

About a month ago I had the pleasure of being invited to ESMOD’s graduation event for their Masters in Sustainable Fashion class. Students were tasked with creating innovating and elegant solutions to the myriad of unsustainable practices that the fashion world takes part in. Students went as far as to actually work with businesses, and [...]

And now for something completely different: Jeans. Raw denim, to be specific. A worn pair of Pure Blue Japan xx-007 blue-weft slubby-denim jeans. Size 30. Why post a photo set of jeans, you ask? Well, apart from them technically being ‘fashion’, there is actually a surprisingly large culture of ‘denim-heads’. These people buy raw (dark, [...]

Germans really like cars. Like, really like cars. Cars are their ‘thing’. Some of the biggest and most prolific car manufacturers in the world are right here in Germany- Daimler Mercedes Benz, Porsche, BMW, and Volkswagen. So when our host, Max, and some of his buds offered to take us out for a day trip [...]

Being in Germany means there’s a lot of old stuff. And when I say old, I mean towns, buildings and even graves that are older than the nation I come from. We had the fortune of being given a tour of Marburg, a city in the state of Hesse, roughly in the middle of Germany. [...]

Our time in the small town of Bad Orb, population ~10,000, has been quite interesting. For most anything of importance, you have to leave the town, and travel a minimum of 20 minutes to one of the surrounding, larger, cities. That is, of course, barring a visit to a brewery. Bad Orb has one microbrew, [...]

Two plane rides and 11 hours of travel after leaving Florida, where my parents live, and now Germany is my new home. I’ve moved to Europe semi-permanently to indulge in all the amazing culture. As Germany has a solid economy and is more-or-less central, my girlfriend, Michelle, and I have decided to make this our [...]

Location: Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo & Las Terrenas) Length: 1 week Cuisine: Salty. People: Wonderful. The first thing that I noticed when I got off the plane in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, was the sweltering heat. The second, the blatant disregard for eco-anything: we walked outside the front doors of the [...]