SMJ Magazine - Fall 2024

In this issue

Fashion & Design and Arts & Enterntainment share the spotlight in our late fall release. On the fashion side, the trending luxury thermal-insulated handbag company La Coutts, only in its second year of operation, was showcased at the historically significant and architecutrally impressive Church of the Holy Trinity, located in the heart of midtown Toronto. Our Fashion & Design Editor Claris Minas Manglicmot was honored with the appointment of National Director of Mister International Canada 2024. She interviewed the 2023 Canadian representative, Rennel Ricketts, complete with a vivid photos! Publisher Shelley couldn't let designer Nikki Odu Kiran leave African Fashion Week Toronto with her amazing print collection without securing an interview. On the arts side, we caught up with r 'n b and jazz chanteuse Simone Denny eight years afer our initial story on her and review of her eclectic CD Stereo Dynamite Vol. I. This time, among other things, we talk about her channeling her Shirley Bassey/James Bond side. Our contributor Paula Griffith concludes a very intimate trilogy of articles involving her mentor John T. Davis two years after penning the first one. And a nice evening event with no expectations within Toronto's CNE Grounds turned into a surprising last minute story on kinetic artist Guy Beckles.