Looking A Little Different Around Here elcome to our third annual Made in Canada Issue! Part of our mandate at Chatelaine is to highlight amazing Canadian brands and makers in every issue, but especially this one: Every product featured on the next 80 pages is either made in Canada or made by a brand that’s headquartered here. We’re also excited to unveil our brand new look. Our mission with this redesign? To infuse a little more joy and liveliness into our pages. Like many of you, we’ve been feeling a bit heavy after these past two pandemic years, and we’re ready to kick up our heels. Being magazine geeks, this heel-kicking has taken the form of blowing up the architecture of the magazine—a brilliant idea from one of our longtime contributors, Danielle Groen. We’ve also added new headline
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fonts—like the gorgeous one on this page—made our imagery more dynamic, enlarged our body font and given our pages some additional breathing room. I’m constantly amazed by the creativity and commitment of our small but mighty team. This redesign was a labour of love for our creative director, Sun Ngo; art director, Stephanie Han Kim; and deputy art director, Aimee Nishitoba. These three spent countless hours over the past few months retooling every detail of every page of the magazine. Case in point: When I left the office the other day, after hours spent mulling over final layouts, I found Steph and Sun standing outside, holding up a cover proof to see how it looked in natural light. (For the record, it looked great, and I strongly recommend you read this issue outside. Bonus points if you make our Chatelaine Caesar on page 77—featuring vodka, Caesar mix, bitters and more from Canadian companies helmed by women—to sip while you flip.) You’ll also notice even more food content in this issue, and in every issue going forward. We’re in the process of building a new, cross-Canada Test Kitchen, a dream team of this country’s top food talent that includes Suzanne Barr, Diala Canelo, Tara O’Brady, Jennifer Pallian and Julie Van Rosendaal, all of whom have recipes in upcoming issues. I owe a debt of gratitude to our deputy editor of food, Chantal Braganza, for her passion and vision for our food section. (She also developed the gorgeous gelatina mosaico on the last page of this issue.) There is so much delicious stuff in store, and that’s all thanks to Chantal. Enough from me! I hope you love this issue as much as I do. If you do, and you aren’t already a subscriber, please consider becoming one. It’s the best way to support our work and way cheaper than buying individual issues, so what’s not to love? You can do so at chatelaine.com/deal.
Maureen Halushak @maureenhalushak letters@chatelaine.com
On the cover CREATIVE DIRECTION BY Sun Ngo; PHOTOGRAPHY BY Christie Vuong; FOOD STYLING BY Ashley Denton; PROP STYLING BY Catherine Doherty.
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PHOTO, CHRISTIE VUONG. MAKEUP AND HAIR, ROBERT WEIR FOR P1M.CA.
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