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	<title>Alexandra Highcrest Magazine &#187; The September Issue</title>
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	<description>I used to work in fashion, then I took an arrow to the knee.</description>
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		<title>The Making of a Fashion Whore</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-making-of-a-fashion-whore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franck Ribéry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Lagerfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris Couture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prostitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soccer scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zahia Dehar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Zahia Dehar, the freshest face at January’s Paris Couture Fashion Week. Despite the fact that Miss Dehar was a fashion unknown until late last year, her lingerie collection closed the week, and none other than Karl Lagerfeld shot her first lookbook. How did Zahia rise from complete obscurity to her lofty position in the fashion world? Did she work her fingers to the bone in a couture house atelier, showing great skill and promise; does she come from a blue chip fashion background; did she win Project Runway France? No, no, and no. Zahia has likely never sketched an original fashion design or cut a pattern; I doubt she’s ever even threaded a needle. Her claim to fame, her only claim to fame up until now, has been her notoriety. Zahia was a prostitute, and titillated France in 2010 when it was revealed that the then 18-year-old had slept with at least three professional football players (soccer players here in the colonies). Footballer Franck Ribéry reportedly paid the underage Zehar £2,000 for sex, two other players faced charges as well. Prostitution is legal in France but one must be eighteen or older to legally work in the business. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cycling in the City</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2011/06/05/cycling-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Rob Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As long as I can remember cyclists have been a part of the traffic in Toronto and for the last couple of years there has been an ongoing dispute between cycling advocates and those who prefer to get around the city by car. This dispute flares up whenever a local politician suggests creating a new bike lane on one of Toronto’s major streets, a pedestrian is struck and injured by a cyclist, or a motorist injures or kills a cyclist. The hyperbole is ramped up and expressions such as “the war on cars,” or “the war on cyclists” are tossed around like confetti at a wedding. Bike lanes appear to be the best solution. Cyclists would hit fewer pedestrians if they rode on the road where they belong (kids could ride on sidewalks) and they might be more inclined to obey traffic rules if they were officially treated as part of the traffic flow instead of nuisances to motorists. Unfortunately for cyclists Toronto now has a car-friendly mayor so the bikers are not likely to see any new lanes created any time soon. I like bicycles and cycling but I don’t bike in Toronto, it’s too scary (call me craven, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damn Heels Looks Like a Damn Knockoff</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2010/04/29/damn-heels-looks-like-a-damn-knockoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knockoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hailey Coleman is a rising star in Toronto’s galaxy of young entrepreneurs. Her company Damn Heels is “dedicated to saving women from their (beloved) damn heels.” The idea is simple; she sells bagged fold-up ballet slippers that women can slip on when their stilettos become too painful to wear, thus saving them from limping home from the club or party barefoot. The killer shoes are carried home in another bag that is included in the Damn Heels package, which retails for $20 CDN. The idea so impressed the judges of the Slaight Communications Business Plan Competition (BPC) that on 31st March they awarded Coleman the top prize in its eighth annual competition, a $25,000 grant for her company that launched in December 2009. The BPC is put together jointly by the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and Start Me Up Ryerson. Students from any Ryerson University faculty can enter. Coleman says she got the idea after one painful, hour-long post-party walk home in London, England (this point is important). Dr. Dave Valliere, chair of Ryerson’s entrepreneurship and strategy department, said her plan was “exceptional, the amount of thinking she put into it. Making a sustainable business takes more than just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing It Over Again for Do Over Day</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2010/02/28/doing-it-over-again-for-do-over-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Lauren]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago we wrote about Do Over Day for Angelina’s Wings, the journal that became the forerunner for Alexandra Highcrest Magazine. At the time we announced that we were going to renovate our Toronto offices and bring in an intern to help with the workload. Well, we’ve done it and AHM is the result. We’ve cleaned up the digs and Paddy O’Conure is officially a member of the AHM family, although he’s still an intern. Original Article: Lets face it, we’ve all done things we’ve later regretted, or regret not doing things we could’ve or should’ve done. Up until recently these regrets were just accepted as a part of life but now we’ve been given a semi-official day to reflect on our past highs and lows, or to begin setting things right – Do Over Day. The ‘do over’ was envisioned by physicists constructing the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland in the 1980s. While creating the means to examine and perhaps alter the space-time continuum, they tossed around the idea of doing over certain portions of one’s life, should time-travel dreams ever become reality. The idea languished amongst the scientists until finally one man with foresight and intrepidness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying and the Loss of Elegance</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2010/01/07/flying-and-the-loss-of-elegance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boeing 747]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constellation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[my Mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viscount]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was a child the first time I flew in a commercial airliner. My mother and I traveled from central Ontario to Toronto, a short flight by the standards of the day, in mid-August. We flew in an Air Canada Vickers Viscount and I thought the she was beautiful; all decked out in her red, white and silver Air Canada livery. The Viscount wasn’t the only thing of beauty I recall from that first flight. My mother wore a stylish skirt suit and heels; streamlined, well cut, clean and unfussy. I was still into dressing like a hippy but Mom wouldn’t stand for it so I wore light slacks, a blouse, and flats bought for the occasion. Mom wore full makeup and had her hair styled, I flaunted a fresh cut. We were typical passengers; travellers used to dress to fly as if the flight itself was a special event, lending credence to the idea that it’s not the destination that’s important when traveling but the journey. Not only did everyone look their best, we were treated like we were the best. Forty years ago men looked after the planes while women tended to the passengers and security was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plague Strikes AHM</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/11/06/plague-strikes-ahm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We don’t know how or where it happened; Karen might have brought it home following a shopping trip, I might have picked it up while working a gig, but we caught it—the H1N1 virus or swine flu. Karen was positively diagnosed a few weeks ago and during her visit our doc said, “If Alexandra has the same symptoms she’s probably got this flu too.” I did, and these include tiredness and shortness of breath as well as all the usual flu-related nastiness. Angelina and Paddy were passed over by the bug. Angelina avoids most people, muttering “They just make me sick,” while Paddy claims to have a super immune system and is resistant to everything. Whatever; we got sick, they didn’t. I hate being sick and I’m a terrible patient but I still catch the flu about once a year. H1N1 is the worst, most lingering flu I’ve ever had. My energy was sucked from me as if a psychic vampire had made a permanent perch on my shoulder and there’s not much you can do once you’re infected—take care of yourself like you would while suffering from any other form of the flu and ride it out. Fortunately I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Cell My Terms? No Probs</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/10/22/my-cell-my-terms-no-probs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first cell phone would’ve been a perfect fit for a thug who wanted to pitch something through the nearest store window prior to making a no-cash, no-credit “purchase” of a TV or stereo. The phone was big and grey and doubled the weight of my purse every time I carried it. I hated the phone but it came with my job of the day so I wasn’t concerned with the fees and paper blizzard that comes with cell phone service. I left that job, and the clunky phone, years ago but I didn’t turn my back on cell technology. I had a Bell cell for a while but when Ma changed the terms of her contract without discussing it with me their phone ended up on a yard sale table. Good riddance. The Bell phone disappeared but the need for a cell remained so Karen and I researched the market and quickly realized that the no contract, pay-as-you-go package was right for us. Our decision was driven home when we watched a woman in a Rogers store burst into tears as the clerk explained the terms of her crackberry contract and insisted that she did indeed owe hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born On the 11th of September</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/09/11/born-on-the-11th-of-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The September Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9-11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vogue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the team and I got together to begin brainstorming the concept behind Alexandra Highcrest Magazine the first thing we decided was that magazine would not be about me. The ‘net is filled to overflowing with diary journals (I hate the word “blog”) and most that we’ve read are so boring. Why should we care about the personal lives of individuals we don’t know and have never heard of? Over the last few months a pattern developed during our editorial meetings. I’d go off on rants that had little or nothing to do with the magazine’s mandate (OK, we do indulge Paddy his love of aviation but why not, airplanes are beautiful and flying was once very fashionable). Occasionally a rant would evolve into an article but more often the point would be sent to the circular file and lost. “Shame!,” said Karen, “we should find a way to incorporate these ideas into the mag.” I agreed and The September Issue category was born. Think of it as a collection of letters from the editor; if Anna Wintour can do it so can I. Why entitle this category The September Issue? Sure, the September issue of US Vogue is the [...]]]></description>
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