Trendhunter founder and Exploiting Chaos author Jeremy Gutsche was recently chosen as a spokesperson for RW&CO’s Fall Catalogue. “Your style is a reflection of your personal brand,” says Gutsche, who reveals that versatile style choices allows him to be ready for anything, whether it’s a “a business meeting with a billionaire, a flash mob, or a keynote performance in front of 8,000 people.”

Manitobah Mukluks, an Aboriginal-owned company, is making waves on the international style scene. (Kate Moss and Megan Fox have been spotted wearing them). In this video, Lavin’s Waneek Horn-Miller—“a proud Mohawk woman who has a really awesome fashion sense”—shows us how the company has found success by taking a traditional art form and making it contemporary.

Lavin speaker Margaret Atwood’s sci-fi essay collection In Other Worlds is inspiring some otherworldly fashion from Adrian Wu.

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“Tonight is the Book Lover’s Ball, an annual fundraiser that brings out the tuxedos and gowns in support of the Toronto Public Library Foundation…The evening will conclude with a fashion show featuring the work of six Toronto designers. Each designer was paired with a book that shares a common thread to the designer’s aesthetic or philosophy…Adrian Wu, who was paired with Margaret Atwood’s science-fiction essay collection, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. It’s a bright idea, considering Wu’s voluminous spring/summer 2012 collection was partly inspired by quantum physics, specifically the double-slit experiment, which deals with the behaviour of light waves and particles…”

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A seminal American artist, Patti Smith has produced a body of work spanning, and inspiring, generations. The New York Times T Fashion Magazine focuses on her photography in this cover story.