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CANADIAN FABRIC Celebrating what makes us fashionably Canadian ANN 2013 VOL 1 2014 $12.99 35 0 74470 94961 9 CONTRIBUTORS SUZANNE BOWNESS DAVID HOU NIKKI ORMEROD Suzanne Bowness is a David Hou loves being Equal parts fantasy and Toronto-based writer with active: bass fishing, golfing, reality, Nikki Ormerod's over a dozen years of badminton and cooking. images are a looking experience writing for Then, there is the quieter glass into experiences magazines, newspapers side of David: listening both intimate and broad. and corporate clients, to jazz, attending a Her ability to easily connect specializing in book reviews theatre performance, and with her subjects and and personal profiles. observing people through environment, complemented Sue recently completed his camera lens. with a unique aesthetic a PhD in English at the David has been a working voice, helps to create University of Ottawa with photographer for more than original and relevant work a dissertation that focused 15 years. At the beginning, for Canadian and interna- LUIGI BENETTON GABOR JURINA KAREN PINCHIN LUIS ALBUQUERQUE on nineteenth century JOSH CORNELL photography was one of tional travel and fashion Luigi Benetton is a regular The notoriously charismatic Karen Pinchin loves telling Born in Portugal and raised Canadian magazines. A noted fashion photographer, many hobbies. Then, with publications. contributor to The Toronto Gabor Jurina is best known a good story, whether she’s in Toronto, where he Josh Cornell has over 22 years the help of fellow artists, Star, itbusiness.ca and cbc. for his innate ability to create writing, editing, Tweeting currently lives with his wife experience working with it turned into a productive ca. He focuses on demystify- equally charming – and or doing some of all three. and two daughters, Luis such noted publications as career, an undying devotion ing the technology industry, striking – fashion and beauty A professionally trained chef, Albuquerque is a dynamic Flare magazine, Fashion to observe, document, and especially the value it offers. photography. His personal she’s a regular contributor product photographer who Magazine and Glow magazine. sometimes create. has been working in the He has also written on topics His work is motivated by appreciations for beauty and to Maclean’s, The Walrus, industry for the past 15 years. as diverse as the business an engaging subject and form have created a strong The Globe and Mail and He has photographed for of law, green building and a worthy cause. portfolio of feeling photos enRoute magazines, and high-profile clients such as professional squash. that immediately engage the you can still find her in the Aldo Shoes, Holt Renfrew, viewer. His hallmark style is kitchen working towards The Bay and Target. graphic, warm, crisp, alluring her Red Seal. Originally from and unmistakably luxurious. Toronto, Karen has lived and worked in Vancouver, New York and Quebec City, and is now happy to call the Maritimes home. BERT ARCHER MOIRA FARR RAINA + WILSON FRED WESTRA Bert Archer was born in Moira Farr is an award- Raina and Wilson are an Fred Westra is a top ranked Montreal, and raised and winning writer whose essays, award-winning commercial analyst at Industrial Alliance educated in Calgary, reviews and feature articles photography team who Securities Inc., and also Vancouver, Victoria, Dublin have appeared in numerous shoot for a variety of edito- acts as the firm’s Director and Toronto. He started publications and writing rial, advertising and design of Research. In 2011 and work as a journalist in anthologies. Her first book, clients. The two long-time 2012, Fred was ranked by 1993, and has worked for After Daniel: A Suicide Survi- friends and business Reuters-Starmine as a top many newspapers and vor’s Tale (HarperFlamingo, partners both hail from the 10 stock pickers in Canada. magazines as an editor, 1999) was shortlisted West Coast but have been He contributes his time as manager, writer and for a number of awards and living and working in Toronto a student mentor and as columnist, including Toronto was also The Edmonton for over a decade. They an acting member of the Life, The Globe and Mail Journal’s top pick for non- are continually impressed Kenneth Woods Portfolio HASNAIN DATTU YURI DOJC ALISON CARLYLE ROUTH ERIC VEILLETTE TED WITEK and the Washington Post. fiction that year. She teaches and inspired by the Management Committee Hasnain Dattu is an The second most famous GARWOOD-JONES Carlyle Routh’s style of Eric Veillette is a journalist Ted Witek is an independent in the Professional Writing dedication and generosity at the John Molson School internationally recognized Slovak-Canadian after Alison Garwood-Jones is an shooting allows her to create whose reports on film culture photographer whose work program of Algonquin College of their subjects. of Business. photographer whose Stanislav Mikita, photogra- award-winning writer, blogger fashion and beauty editorials appear regularly in the is exhibited widely and is and at Carleton University’s work has appeared in such pher Yuri Dojc honed his and a former editor with Elle that combine her passion Toronto Star’s Entertainment part of personal collections School of Journalism. prestigious publications craft at Ryerson in the 1970s. Canada and Viva magazines. for painting and her love of section. In the Living pages, across the globe. He has as Luerzer’s Archive, In 1987 he became the first She was recently cited as a photography. She has shot he examines trends in the been photographing Communication Arts, Canuck to be featured on favourite blogger by Brazen- numerous fashion campaigns spirits and cocktail world since childhood and takes American Photography, the cover of Communication Careerist.com, a Washington and has been featured in and pens the weekly “A drink comfort in the self- Photo District News, Graphis, Arts magazine, and since D.C.-based work-related many Canadian and European with...” column, gabbing with proclamation of Helmut IPA, and Applied Arts. then has appeared in nine website for “next-generation fashion magazines. GTA notables in the city’s Newton that he ‘got good Hasnain is known for his published books, a pair professionals” that’s been most interesting cocktail at 50.’ Together with curator ability to draw out the of travelling exhibitions profiled by 60 Minutes. bars. Eric also covers film, Hilda Yasseri, he recently personality of his subjects, crisscrossing the globe, TV, tech and sports for published the photography creating a natural sense and a documentary film on Rogers Connected and film book VIRAGEM. of intimacy in his work. his current Last Folio project and history in The Globe & is in post-production. Mail’s Globe TO section. 10 CANADIAN FABRIC CANADIAN FABRIC 11 THE POWER T0 CHANGE THE GAME Former world squash player, Jonathon Power teams up with Maria Toorpakai Wazir to empower girls around the world through sport. BY LUIGI BENETTON PHOTOGRAPHY HASNAIN DATTU HAIR & MAKE-UP ELENA PACIENZA STYLIST MICHELLE PAIANO CULTURAL ICONS JONATHON POWER uring his teenage years, a Canadian army brat chose his calling: the game of squash. Years later, on the other side of the world, a Pakistani girl made the same choice. Maria Toorpakai Wazir’s choice proved more difficult, Power is at home at the National Squash Academy since girls in her homeland of Waziristan, in northwest (NSA), which was built on a former Canadian Forces Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan, are not base now known as Downsview Park. “It’s got a good expected to venture outside the house. In her words, energy about it,” Power muses. their destiny is to be confined to “four walls.” Power’s father, a former military phys ed and DBelief in equality for women is a radical thing in a recreation officer, would agree. Decades ago, he built place the Taliban call home. Being a realist as well as a three squash courts on this decommissioned base radical, Toorpakai’s father told her that if she wanted “just on the other side of the hill near the track,” to compete, she had to leave the country. Power gestures. Several years later, Toorpakai had sent thousands “I got an email one day after I opened the NSA,” of emails to squash clubs, universities, places where Power recalls. Toorpakai wrote that she wanted to she could chase her dream. The one response she got “become the best player in the world, but where she was from Canadian squash legend Jonathon Power. comes from, girls don’t have access to sports.” Power started playing the game in PEI and “I reached out to her. It took three or four emails continued as the family moved to other bases before to convince her because she didn’t believe it was really moving out of the house to train full-time. “By the me.” Eventually, 21-year-old Toorpakai landed in time we lived in Toronto, I was already on tour. I was Toronto “with $200 and a one-way ticket on a promise playing full-time when I was 16,” says the former from me.” Power sponsors and coaches Maria as she world champion. “My mom was a schoolteacher, so pursues her sporting and social change goals. that was a tough sell,” he grins. Having cracked the world top-50 ranking in women’s Now retired, the 38-year-old Power runs the squash, she’s on her way to the world championship National Squash Academy. “This place is like a field of she covets. But she also has her mind set on another dreams,” Power says. “Come here with your goals and goal, to help girls in her home country, and places like I’ll help you achieve them, whether it’s beating your it.