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                                Hafsa Altaf moved to Saskatoon from Pakistan at age four; she came to Winnipeg to study fashion design.
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The gift of hijab: Fashion designer found empowerment in modesty

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The gift of hijab: Fashion designer found empowerment in modesty

AV Kitching 7 minute read Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024

As a Muslim woman living in Canada, Hafsa Altaf faced countless challenges on multiple fronts when navigating the fashion industry as a woman in a hijab.

Rejected by local trade shows and craft markets and criticized by detractors in the South Asian community who disapproved of her sartorial ambitions, the 27-year-old artist and designer remained undaunted.

Undeterred by naysayers, she relentlessly called and emailed event organizers, determined to convey the values and mission of her label, Fashion by Hafsa.

Facing down the conservatism of her community was an altogether different struggle, but it was also one of the “greatest things” she has ever done, says the Pakistani-born Canadian, who moved to Saskatchewan with her family when she was four.

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Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024
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                                Dressmaker Oluwayemisi Josephine Ogunwale sports one of her pieces.
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Pride and passion stitched right in

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Pride and passion stitched right in

AV Kitching 4 minute read Saturday, Mar. 23, 2024

Surrounded by vibrant textiles, Oluwayemisi Josephine Ogunwale, or Yemz, as she likes to be referred to, sits at her sewing machine, brow furrowed in concentration as she stitches the hem of a dress.

The tools of her trade within easy reach — fabric scissors, measuring tapes, cottons of various shades — Ogunwale is in her happy place: creating beautiful and wearable works of art for her loyal clientele.

The dressmaker has always been interested in fashion. As a child she would sew doll clothing from scraps of material her mother discarded. This progressed to altering her own clothes: modifying hems, adjusting frills, loosening or tightening waistlines.

“Sometimes I would destroy the clothes because of how many changes I made to it,” she laughs.

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Saturday, Mar. 23, 2024
A person navigates the Temu website on a smartphone in Toronto, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Temu launched in Canada in early February, the same month it aired a Super Bowl ad with the tagline

Low-cost Temu goes head-to-head with Amazon

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Low-cost Temu goes head-to-head with Amazon

Brett Bundale, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025

It started with a video of a postal worker sorting a mountain of orange packages from Temu.

Rachael D'Amore hadn't heard of the online shopping site, but after watching the video she found good reviews, affordable products and free shipping on most orders — what she called "a unicorn in Canada these days."

"I had to double check the URL to make sure that I wasn't on the U.S. site," she said.

Temu also offered a $5 credit if an order took longer than 12 days to arrive — a quasi-insurance policy that gave D'Amore the confidence to place a $30 order for seven items, including an 89-cent necklace, earrings for $1.78 and hair clips for $3.59.

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Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025
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Howard Raber, the third-generation president of Raber Gloves and Mitts.
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Raber Gloves’ Garbage Mitts the must-have Winnipeg winter accessory

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Raber Gloves’ Garbage Mitts the must-have Winnipeg winter accessory

Ben Waldman 11 minute read Monday, Feb. 28, 2022

‘I am the wrong person to complain to about the weather,” Howard Raber says jubilantly midway through a Winnipeg January, wearing a golf shirt as he opens the door to his family’s factory on McDermot Avenue.

Raber does not mind the cold. It’s the reason he is in business.

Had his grandparents immigrated in 1925 to a warmer place, their grandson’s opinion on the windchill might differ. But the ancestors chose Winnipeg — not such a bad place to be in the business of making gloves.

When it’s freezing outside, which in the wintertime is often, if not always, Howard Raber considers himself especially lucky. “When it’s cold out, we are everybody’s best friend.”

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Monday, Feb. 28, 2022
Artist Isaiah Binns (right) with the logo he designed on a shirt, with his former graphic-design teacher from Elmwood High School, Mathew Reis. (Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free Press)
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Bright orange safety shirts now beacon of hope, thanks to young designer

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Bright orange safety shirts now beacon of hope, thanks to young designer

Ben Waldman 7 minute read Monday, Sep. 27, 2021

Isaiah Binns, who graduated last spring from Elmwood High School, arrives at the downtown headquarters of Richlu Industries, the manufacturer of Tough Duck workwear, to see the logo he helped create for a line of the company’s reflective safety clothing ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Monday, Sep. 27, 2021
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Della Vincent Clark est une des rares femmes non-autochtones à maîtriser l’art de la maroquinerie des Premières Nations.
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En hommage à sa mère

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En hommage à sa mère

Camille Seguy / De la liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, May. 19, 2012

ORIGINAIRE de Saint-Georges, Della Vincent Clark a commencé à coudre à 11 ans.

“J’ai appris de ma mère, Florette Vincent,” racontet- elle. “Elle fabriquait des mitaines.

Elle a tenu le magasin Flo’s Leather Crafts, qu’elle avait créé, pendant 30 ans avant de prendre sa retraite il y a plus de 15 ans. Je l’aidais beaucoup au magasin.”

Florette Vincent a transmis à sa fille sa passion de la maroquinerie, mais ce n’est qu’après son décès, fin 2011, que Della Vincent Clark a décidé de reprendre en main Flo’s Leather Crafts.

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Saturday, May. 19, 2012
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Miguel Vielfaure emploie 20 m��res c��libataires d�Am��rique du Sud pour confectionner les produits Etchiboy.
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Du Pérou au Manitoba

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Du Pérou au Manitoba

By Camille Séguy de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 3 minute read Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012

Quand le Métis de La Broquerie, Miguel Vielfaure, s'est rendu au Pérou en mai 2006, il n'avait alors pas l'intention de se lancer dans le commerce équitable. C'est pourtant ce qu'il a développé en créant Etchiboy, début 2007.

"Quand je suis allé au Pérou, j'ai trouvé sur un marché des ceintures faites sur un métier tisser très semblables aux ceintures fléchées métisses," raconte Miguel Vielfaure. "Ä mon retour au Canada, la Fédération des Métis du Manitoba m'en a commandées 26.

"J'ai donc contacté une amie Lima, qui m'a mis en contact avec l'Association des mères célibataires El Telar, proche de Cuzco, pour la fabrication des ceintures," poursuit-il. "En les rencontrant, par le biais d'Internet, j'ai décidé de me lancer dans le commerce équitable et de créer Etchiboy."

El Telar rassemble 20 mères célibataires, veuves ou abandonnées, dans les communautés rurales de Cuzco. Elles ont accès sept métiers tisser pour fabriquer les commandes provenant 80 % de Miguel Vielfaure et 20 pourcentage du marché local.

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Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012
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Janelle Wookey, fondatrice du blogue Canada Street Style.
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Ä la mode winnipégoise

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Ä la mode winnipégoise

By Jocelyne Nicolas de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012

‘J'AI toujours adoré les blogues de mode,” lance la Franco-Manitobaine Janelle Wookey. “Mais je ne trouvais que des sites qui discutaient des tendances à New York, à Paris ou bien à Milan. Toujours les mêmes villes, jamais du contenu canadien. Pourtant, je sais qu’on a du goût et que la mode est bien vivante ici. Je n’en revenais pas qu’il n’y avait aucun site à notre sujet.”L'idée de montrer les Canadiens sous toutes leurs coutures et dans toute leur beauté, dans la rue et dans la vie de tous les jours, l'a suivie un bon moment avant qu'elle n'agisse.

"Je cherchais sur Google Canada street style," continue Janelle Wookey. "Je voulais voir des images de gens de chez nous. Il n'y avait rien du tout au Canada, et même le nom de domaine canadastreetstyle.com était disponible. Je l'ai vite acheté, mais sans savoir ce que j'allais faire avec un site Web."

Suite un séjour inspirant Montréal, Janelle Wookey a conßu le site comme il est aujourd'hui. Des photographes bénévoles Winnipeg, Montréal, Vancouver, Toronto et Victoria parcourent leur ville respective, cherchant des citoyens avec une mode intéressante ou unique. Le site les montre en photos avec une brève description de l'origine de leurs vêtements et leurs accessoires.

Sur le site, on trouve Janessa, une artiste winnipégoise qui s'est créé un look la fois unique, mais pratique pour l'hiver canadien. Dans un manteau en jeans et une jupe achetée dans une boutique d'occasion de style vintage Oh So Lovely, Janessa porte des bottes jaunes. Ses lunettes roses d'occasion ont été achetées la boutique Vintage Glory et pour accessoriser le tout, elle a volé son sac Tintin son copain. Page après page, le site montre en détails les trésors de mode dénichés par ces Canadiens ordinaires.

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Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012
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