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On our cover is Vancouverite Jillian Harris, who captured viewers’ hearts as the first Canadian to star on ABC’s reality show The Bachelorette. In her newest gig as a regular host of the network’s hit show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition the petite brunette shows her talent for interior design. The reality TV star chats with writer Michelle Hopkins about her life and loves. She also lets readers in on her sweetheart deal with luxury rail tour company Rocky Mountaineer and the secrets of her signature decorating style, which — just like the star herself — is a clever mix of Hollywood glitz and cool Canadiana.

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Look regular contributor Tom Zillich has covered the Metro Vancouver music scene for two decades. When not playing bass with Dal Dilvog, he serves as the Surrey Now’s entertainment editor. For our feature story Northern Exposure Tom went to camp. Glee camp. Turn to page 23 to read what effect TV’s hit show is having here at home.

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In Look we introduce you to the Lower Mainland’s brightest lights in film and television, music, business, politics and community service. Bringing to you these stories is an accomplished team.

As always, we bring you the freshest fashions from your favourite neighbourhood boutiques. The Colour of Spring starts on page 11. Enjoy!

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ost people know cancer becomes increasingly likely as you age. But how do you get that message through to aging boomers when it’s one they don’t want to hear? Founder of the controversially named F**k Cancer campaign, Yael Cohen, knows how: target their children.

“F**k Cancer’s mission is to reach out to Generation Y and get them to make their parents aware of the risks of cancer and the huge benefits of early detection,” says the 24-year-old West Vancouverite, whose mother Diane fought breast cancer

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in 2009 and is now in remission. “About 90 per cent of cancers are curable if detected at Stage 1, but for our parents’ generation it’s still something they don’t want to think about — the C word.”

F**k Cancer is an awareness drive that made headlines last fall over its slogan emblazoned across T-shirts publicly sported by celebrities, and over the threats of vandalism towards stores carrying the uncensored products. Now, the non-profit organization has taken a fresh approach.

This month the Cohens launch their latest initiative: a voicemail messaging campaign.

“We want Gen Y to sit down and talk to Mom and Dad about symptoms and early detection — it’s like, our parents gave us the sex talk, now we’re giving them the cancer talk,” says Yael. “But a lot of young people find it hard to begin that conversation.”

To help Gen Y-ers initiate the tough talk, celebrities and role models have created voice recordings that can be sent to parents, which end by saying their son or daughter has something important to

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talk to them about. “The older person is more likely to listen to a request from a child than from a friend or even a healthcare professional,” notes Yael.

And for those who still wish to wear the campaign name with pride, Yael also plans to take the product range to the next level. “We recently started selling necklaces and cufflinks, which we find people are buying as remission gifts,” says Yael. “And in April we’re launching a fabulous new silk scarf, which can be worn by anyone but is particularly great for chemotherapy patients.”

The $125 monogram scarf is modelled after a top seller by fashion’s bad boy, the late Alexander McQueen. For where to buy, visit letsfcancer.com.

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Beline top $80 at Aldila (Lonsdale Avenue) Sandwich sweater $110 at Get Dressed (Westview Shopping Centre/Parkgate Village) Metalicus skirt $155 at Pilar’s (The Village at Park Royal) and Get Dressed Anne Marie Chagnon earrings $60 and bracelet $152 at Giftworks (Edgemont Village) Ecco bag $135 at Ingledew’s (Park Royal north mall), Way-on Shoes (Marine Drive and SoftMoc (Park Royal south mall) Fly London pumps $245 at Zig Zag (Edgemont Village)

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Kersh sweater $49 and Brave belt $89 at Get Dressed (Westview Shopping Centre/Parkgate Village) Bodytalk necklace $158 at Orquidea (Bellevue Avenue) Idea USA top $20 at Hangers (Park Royal south mall) Metalicus skirt $175 at Pilar’s (The Village at Park Royal) Lemon Park resin earrings $48 at Tartooful (Edgemont Village) Aldila clutch $40 at Aldila (Lonsdale Avenue) Swedish Hasbeens sandals $239 at Zig Zag (Edgemont Village) and Pilar’s

Gilmour long-sleeve top $29 at Get Dressed (Westview Shopping Centre/Parkgate Village), Zig Zag (Edgemont Village), Orquidea (Bellevue Avenue) and Red Horses (Dundarave) Metalicus vest $285 at Get Dressed and Pilarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (The Village at Park Royal) Necklace $20 at Aldila (Lonsdale Avenue) Ralph Lauren cargo pants $109 and Diesel bag $195 at The Bay (Park Royal north mall) Toms Shoes espadrilles $55 at Leila (Lynn Valley Village), Hangers and Aritzia (both in Park Royal south mall)

Rachel Roy top $79 and Furla bag $225 at The Bay (Park Royal north mall) Joe Fresh sweater $40 at Superstore (Seymour) Spanner pants $110 at BJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Dundarave) and Phoenix (Park Royal south mall) Hilliard Designs ring $136 at Jeweliette, JC Studio and Walrus (all in Vancouver) Michael Kors loafers $135 at Zig Zag (Edgemont Village)

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Spanner trench $139 at Aldila (Lonsdale Avenue) BJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Dundarave) and Phoenix (Park Royal south mall) Metalicus sweater $189 at Pilarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (The Village at Park Royal) and Get Dressed (Westview Shopping Centre/Parkgate Village) Tank top $85 at Banana Republic (Park Royal north mall) Only pants $69 at Hangers (Park Royal south mall) Myka necklace $200, visit mykadesigns.com for stores Hilliard Design ring $180 at Jeweliette, JC Studio and Walrus (all in Vancouver) Element messenger bag $60 at Hangers (Park Royal south mall) Nine West Vintage wedge sandals $120 at Nine West (Metropolis at Metrotown/Pacific Centre)

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Novelti jacket $140 at The Bay (Park Royal north mall) Top $50 at Aldila (Lonsdale Avenue) Kersh cardigan $49 at Get Dressed (Westview Shopping Centre/Parkgate Village) Her Story necklace $30 at Hangers (Park Royal south mall) Lemon Park resin bangles $30 each at Tartooful (Edgemont Village) BCBG pants $190 at BCBG (Park Royal north mall) Fly London suede gladiator sandals $220 at Zig Zag (Edgemont Village)

SPRING/SUMMER 2011

Fashion Forecast You wouldn’t know it

from the snow on the local mountains, but winter is over, the days are getting longer and the sun is starting to shine. So ladies, it’s time to say goodbye to the heavier, darker looks of fall and invite colour and lighter fabrics into your wardrobe for the upcoming season.

The “glam” look from the 70’s is being featured everywhere this spring.

Wide leg trousers and jeans are back and they’re sporting a higher waist. Add a printed light weight silk blouse and a thin metallic belt and you will look like you just arrived from New York! The maxi dress has also made a comeback; some of you daring ones will even wear the floppy hat and big sunglasses. Don’t forget to add a clutch to either of these looks and you will look “very” grown up. The clutch is for us sophisticated fashionistas and not our teenage daughters! If you don’t have a trench coat, invest in one! Not only is it practical for the Vancouver climate, it will accentuate your sultry silhouette.

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Moms everywhere know the war cry of the wardrobe battle. And for parents of tweens, this is especially true as they watch their young daughters race through childhood into adolescence, flaunting flirty fashion well beyond their years.

Kids ages eight to 12 are caught between two worlds: no longer little children and not yet teens. Girls looking to express themselves through the clothes they wear have few options between the throw-away fashion the mall has to offer and the grown-up looks of a pricy designer boutique.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a one-stop destination for trendy apparel coveted by girls and approved by mom? That was Elena Grant’s thinking when she created sofiabella.ca. The North Vancouver mompreneur sells fun, stylish and ageappropriate clothing for tween girls online and, since the fall, at her newly opened boutique in Edgemont Village.

For spring, Sofiabella is filled with clothing, footwear and accessories for the junior fashion set. There are capri denims from Miss Me, all-weather hoodies from Yogini and ruffled skirts from Desigual of Spain. All the season’s top trends are

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here, though Grant says its important not to be too concerned with what’s “in,” saying “Today, fashion is so eclectic that anything goes as long as you wear it with confidence.” There is one thing you won’t find at Sofiabella: T-shirts with suggestive slogans. The store aims instead to promote positive messages for its young customers to send out to the world with what they wear: “I have value and self worth.” “I believe in myself.” “I can accomplish anything.”

Grant has even launched a campaign that encourages tweens, who she calls “bella girls,” to celebrate what makes them unique and wonderful and to share their stories on her website.

KID FRIENDLY Can you make this in my size? It’s a question that Redfish Kids co-creator and West Vancouverite Kristy Brinkley fields not from kids but from their moms.

That’s no surprise to fans of the locally produced clothing line inspired by the street fashions of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo and internationally represented by upscale boutiques and department stores. On the North Shore, savvy shoppers snap up the stylish togs for boys and girls

at Da Vinci’s in Ambleside, Tartooful in Edgemont Village and Jack & Lola in Lower Lonsdale.

Moms love that Redfish clothes are locally made sweatshop-free using durable, pre-washed materials and designed for growth, movement and versatility. Pants become shorts, a swing dress becomes a smock and, best of all, says Brinkley, siblings can share each other’s clothes.

Favourites like the Mona dress, $75, find their way into older girls’ closets. The tunic style in organic cotton bamboo is available in black or robin’s egg blue for spring. “A lot of the tweens have been buying them and throwing them over jeans,” says Brinkley, who is working with her business partner, designer Lorraine Kitsos, to produce more styles in larger sizes. Many Redfish classics are now available up to size 14.

The line’s gorgeous prints and clean silhouettes are sophisticated yet kidappropriate. “We show our party dress with jeans and Converse tennis shoes,” says Brinkley, whose own kids, ages 3 and 6, are fans. “It’s sweet but at the same time it’s got a bit of an edge to it.”

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Perry Ehrlich was positively giddy the moment his ShowStoppers choir hit the opening riff of Journey’s ubiquitous hit, Don’t Stop Believin’, at a Christmas party, and watched as a thousand delirious techcompany employees screamed along with the uplifting high notes.

Sure, the song’s been massive since acid wash, but there was something in the air that December night during the set’s final number, something totally Glee-ful.

“It was so magical, such a feel-good moment,” recalls Ehrlich, the choir’s highenergy director and, in his daytime hours, a lawyer at a Richmond firm.

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people were into it because they knew the song from Glee.”

Nobody really saw it coming, but Glee, the hit American TV musical comedy-drama show set in a high school, is credited for making choral singing and choreographed moves cool and popular again, and some local ensembles are riding the wave. The thing is, ShowStoppers first made a splash with the sounds of Motown and more contemporary pop hits 11 years ago, all under Ehrlich’s watch.

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“For me, it was in that awkward stage in high school,” the cheery blonde told Look. “It was very similar to the whole Glee world on TV, where you’re just trying to figure out who you are and you’re not very popular but you have this common bond with all these people — a

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love and passion for singing and theatre.”

Today, Hall shines in a co-starring role on daytime soap All My Children, and credits her experience with ShowStoppers for pushing her in the performing arts direction, career-wise.

“She was with us for about six or seven years,” Ehrlich recalls, “and was so enormously talented but humble, sweet and kind. She’s the kid you’d hope would be successful, just because she’s so lovely.”

Hall was based in New York and touring with a production of A Chorus Line when she got the call to do AMC. The soap is shot in Los Angeles, so Hall moved there and struck up friendships with some of the Glee gang early in the show’s history, including Victoria-raised Cory Monteith, who plays jock-turnedsinger Finn Hudson, and Matthew Morrison (“Will Schuester”), whom she met in the off-Broadway world of theatre.

“It’s just crazy how their lives have all changed,” Hall marvels, “and they all deserve it because they’re talented and >

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Despite the TV show’s popularity and cultural impact over the past two seasons, not everyone on the Metro Vancouver choral scene is so enamoured of Glee, including Ehlrich, who tunes in only every so often.

“It’s fun,” he says of the show, “but sometimes it becomes a little inane. What I do with ShowStoppers has been called cheesy, but our choir isn’t nearly as cheesy as what’s on that show.”

For the uninitiated, hour-long Glee episodes mix stories involving embattled groups of jocks, cheerleaders and glee-club singers with two or three show-stopping choral songs done with clever choreography — mostly reworked pop songs of today and yesterday. In some ways, it’s the High School Musical crowd with a little more edge.

Erin Bishop doesn’t watch Glee much, either, which is a bit surprising given her work with the eight-woman choral group Aliqua.

“I’m just not a huge TV watcher,” says Bishop, who has handled most of Aliqua’s business since its inception a decade ago.

“There are some of us in Aliqua who totally love Glee,” Bishop continues, “and I guess I should probably really like it.

I have seen lots of episodes, because it’s on where I get my nails done,” she adds, laughing.

For Bishop, it’s interesting to hear the best Hollywood arrangers and producers have a go at some of the songs they do on Glee.

“The show is actually depressing for a cappella pop groups, especially in the States, where there’s a stronger tradition of that, because the music on Glee is obviously pre-recorded and mixed and perfectly performed, so well produced, and it’s impossible to replicate that in concert. When I go to pick up sheet music at Long & McQuade, there are Glee songbooks everywhere, so you know there’s a million choirs doing these songs, but they’ll never sound as good as they do on the show. But yeah, the arrangements are cool — really good.”

Aliqua’s music is cleverly arranged, too, and dizzyingly diverse. Who knew a cover of Etta James could sound so good next to a hushed version of Metallica’s metal anthem Nothing Else Matters, followed by a French lullaby and a Polynesian bird-worshipping chant? Hear for yourself when the group performs its 10th-anniversary concert this spring at Vancouver Playhouse (watch for news at www.aliqua.com).

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The ShowStoppers choir share its infectious energy with pre-Olympic crowds at the Richmond Skating Oval. Top The women of Aliqua defy the genre of choral music.

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“I’ve found a niche with this, yes,” says Zacharias, totally stoked by the idea of like-minded young people attached by a sort of musical glue. “Kids tell me how much the choir experience has changed their lives, because they never sang at home but always felt they had a voice but were really shy about it. One girl, who is about 22, said how great it was to get into a choir with others who love singing as much as she does, and you can just see the confidence blossom before your very eyes.”

Early into rehearsals at the Roundhouse, Zacharias instructs the group to sing solo and group versions of Cee Lo Green’s Forget You, a lyrically dirty number cleansed for the purposes of this fledgling show choir.

“I love that song – just so much attitude!” raves choir member Stephanie Appels, sporting a Glee-graphic sweatshirt, a sure sign of her fandom.

She is, Zacharias tells me, a dancer who loves to sing, especially harmonies, and “practically lives for” singing with the choir and an adult “Gleeks” group Thursday nights at Douglas College in New Westminster.

At Richmond’s South Arm Community Centre, Sunday evenings are special for Ehrlich’s 20-member, genderequal ShowStoppers group, most of them graduates of the Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! summer program he has run at Vancouver’s Jewish Commmunity Centre over the past 16 years.

“I turn myself into a pretzel to find performance opportunities for the choir,” says Ehrlich, who is slightly troubled that more local event planners, businesses and organizations don’t know about ShowStoppers and what the group is capable of on stage.

“These are talented kids, you betcha,” notes Ehrlich, clearly proud of his group.

“I’m lucky because there’s not much turnover (in ShowStoppers). They have to be committed, because we do 20 shows a year, and I choose them carefully, with that mix of talent but also grounded.”

There is a shift happening in the group, however, as some members are due to graduate from school and move out of the area for higher education, Ehrlich says.

A door is open with Zacharias’ group, too, though she’s already working with some young people who are vocally blessed — and totally into it.

“It’s so much fun right now, with the camps and the choir,” she says, “and it’s obvious that the kids are loving the experience.”

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TEEN TALENT North Van’s Asha Diaz dreams of a life on stage.

At just 14, Asha Diaz is on the road to a promising recording career, with a dozen songwriting credits to her name and a newly release CD, Jumpin’ Off. Look caught up with the teen talent between classes at Handsworth secondary.

First big break was Harmony Arts Festival when I was 10 (2008). We call it “Harmony One,” because it is one of three I’ve performed at. Writing songs is how I communicate my opinion. People will listen to somebody if it is something pleasing to listen to. It helps me define who I am and who I want to be — it’s my voice in the hallways of a huge school. It’s also just fun.

I write about being true to yourself. I’m interested in lyrics that are meaningful and smart and that resonate with people — pop songs are fun to listen to but I’m really into writing songs from the heart. First real song I wrote was Cauliflower Clouds. I was eight when I finished it, and nine when I performed it at the PNE. Musical influence

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>post-high-school group with roots at West Vancouver Secondary, they resisted using the word “choir” to describe what they did, fearing negative reaction to such “nerdy” music. But now that Glee is such a hit, the game has changed somewhat.

“I have noticed that I’m less gun-shy now to use the terms choral or choir, because it’s a bit more socially acceptable now, not so much super-dorky,” Bishop explains. “That’s the one tangible thing that’s changed. What we do is not really like what they do on Glee, musically speaking, but the show has definitely opened up some kids’ eyes and maybe made them more likely to check us out — kids being teenagers.”

On a Sunday afternoon in a room at Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver, a dozen older teens and young adults are stretching to the music of Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body to warm up. It’s a mix of five guys and seven girls for this rehearsal, and soon everyone is oohing, aahing and buzzing their lips in synch with scales played on piano by Sara Zacharias.

Most of the singers in this new (and still unnamed) auditioned show choir know Zacharias from time spent in her recent Glee Camp, musical-instruction sessions launched in the summer of 2010 in reaction to, and inspired by, the TV show. In boot camp style, they rehearse and record choreographed versions of hit songs, giving participants a taste of that Glee life.

Now, Zacharias, a longtime musician who lives in East Van and teaches vocal lessons throughout the region, is taking things a step further with an auditioned show choir — one she hopes will compete and possibly tour one day, with much more emphasis on singing than choreographed moves.

(Sony Music recording artist) Sara Bareilles is huge. Her chords, her lyrics, her everything. Recording artists I’d like to work with Sara Bareillis, mostly, but also Sarah Harmer, Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz. I’m listening to King of Anything,

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by Stroke 9. I’m working on writing a lot of songs, rehearsing for a big show at Centennial Theatre and working at Creativ Music as the vocal coach for their Pop Star Birthday Parties. In 10 years I’d like to be doing what I’m doing now on a bigger scale. Travelling, for sure. Living in Paris.

Singing lots. I feel really lucky to have had so many people help me. Jim Kwan from Creativ Music has been my teacher for years. He has helped me so much with writing, singing, performing, recording.

Also Pete Ryznar and my dad (Omar Diaz) have been playing with me since I was 8. I have had awesome support from the community around here. It’s really fun just to see how far I can go... l

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Between her work as a host and interior designer on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, sketching ideas for the redesign of the Rocky Mountaineer’s split-level glass-domed coach, and jetting between the U.S. and Canada, the petite brunette admits she’s a little exhausted but loving it. “I’m really thrilled to be working on the Rocky Mountaineer project,” says Harris, who journeyed on the train two years ago while filming The Bachelorette.

Harris has already jotted down her vision for the domed coach. “It will be Old World meets rustic opulence with lots of influences from the past, dark charcoal sconces and navy gold fabric,” Harris says, when Look caught up with her in Chicago, where she is spending much of her time now.

The 31-year-old interior designer from Peace River, Alberta, divulged that since her breakup from Swiderski, she’s found solace in her interior design work. “For me, it is very therapeutic to work a lot,” says Harris. “Initially, I was traumatized after The Bachelorette, so when ABC first approached me to be part of another television show I said no. But, when they asked me to reconsider a few months later, I said I would, if it were design related.”

Earlier last year, when Harris was contacted to guest star as an interior designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, she leaped at the opportunity.

After her guest appearance in March 2010, in which she helped build the home of a two-year-old boy who had undergone >

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dream to retail some of her own designs.

Harris is known for her unique, custom-made 18th century dining and lounge pieces — think hot pink upholstered Louis chair — as well as her collaborations on restaurant interiors of chains such as the Browns Restaurant Group and the Cactus Club Café. “I did sell a few pieces online but it’s simply not feasible right now,” says Harris, who has more than a decade of interior design experience.

On those rare occasions when Harris gets to Vancouver, her favourite pastime is to head to Pitt Meadows and Langley and go antiquing with her mom or her friends.

“In Chicago, I love dumpster diving,” she says with a laugh.

Meanwhile, Harris did carve out some time to design Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky and her fiancé Roberto Martinez’s San Diego home. “I couldn’t say no to Ali,” she says, adding when time permits she’d loved to adorn more celebrity homes.

Asked to describe her personal style at home, Harris says: “I’m that Hollywood Regency look, with lots of antique metals, deer horns, burlap pillows and damask wallpaper, mixed with shabby with a rustic undertone.” The Hollywood Regency’s trademark glitz and glamour from the 1930s is making a modern comeback. “I love the juxtaposition of traditional pieces with informal, organic items,” says Harris. “There’s nothing more fun for me than to repurpose furniture, taking an old, rustic-looking chair and covering the seat with a green velour, for example.

All too soon, Harris has to say goodbye. She and her best girlfriend are heading out to have dinner with her ex, Swiderski, and a few friends.

“I’m friends with Ed now and it’s good; it’s really nice,” she says.

As far as dating, Harris says she’s not ready yet. “But if the right guy comes along, then you know...” l

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> a heart transplant, Harris was invited to permanently join the cast.

She premiered as a regular host in last September’s two-hour premiere of season 8 of the hit reality show.

So far, she has filmed four episodes and is about to film episode 5 in Wichita, Kansas. (Her episodes will air this April and May.) “Working with Ty is fantastic, he is so genuine, incredibly kind and tons of fun,” she says of her co-host Ty Pennington.

Harris is passionate about her new gig, and says she often wears her heart on her sleeve when she hears each family’s inspirational story. “Right now, I’m working on designing a living room, foyer and two young girls bedrooms for a family whose dad is a quadriplegic,” she says. “It’s so sad because his daughter was at the wheel, although he never blamed her.”

The spunky television personality quickly perks up when she discusses the sketches she’s working on for the house.

“I’m doing a country theme using lots of reclaimed wood, antler chandeliers … you know that whole Hudson’s Bay blankets look,” she says. “It’s right up my alley.”

A consequence of her insanely busy schedule is that Harris rarely finds time to get back to B.C. That has meant that she has had to curtail her independent design work. She’s had to put her clients of Jillian Harris Design on hold, as well as her

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Above Jillian Harris is taking the lead role in the redesign of Rocky Mountaineer’s glass-domed Gold Leaf coach, to be unveiled this month. Her plans are for a rich colour palette and a mix of modern, opulent style with a nod to times past. Right The designer on the set of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with host Ty Pennington and young look-alike, Michela Pantano.

Left The reality TV star was thrilled when The Bachelorette’s Ali Fedotowsky asked her to decorate the San Diego home she shares with fiancé Roberto Martinez.

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w i t h FR E D L E E Putting the fun back in fundraising, gala-goers partied hard hitting the bottles, slopes, casino tables, and dance floor to raise serious cash for worthy causes and charities throughout the Lower Mainland.

Celebrating the spirit of giving Michelle Krall Wigmore and Vicki Gabereau attended the 13th annual National Philanthropy Day luncheon yours truly emceed.

Mayor Richard Stewart welcomed Trevor Linden’s new 20,000-square-foot Club 16 Fitness Centre to Coquitlam.

Among le beau monde at Louis Vuitton’s swish splash were model Gabriel Aubry pictured left and fashion photographer Joshua McVeity above flanked by Look magazine’s Layne Christensen left and friend Chantal Bachellerie.

CBC’s George Stroumboulopoulos and Urban Rush’s Fiona Forbes were among the celebs in attendance at the Brightlight Pictures Whistler Film Festival Red Carpet Gala.

Global TV’s Chris Gailus, gala chairwoman Sandy Elliott and CEO Filomena Nalawajek saw nearly $1 million raised at the Gift of Time Canuck Place children’s hospice fundraiser.

Feeling amorous, Slurp and Swirl emcee Dawn Chubai of CityTV planted one on Joe Fortes maitre d’ Frenchy. The oyster and bubbles event raised a reported $50,000 for the Vancouver Firefighters’ Charitable Society.

A fine feathered Shannon Heth and artist George Vergette attended the Contemporary Art Gallery gala dinner and art auction held at the Vancouver Club. The picture perfect party chaired by CAG president Ross Hill netted more than $100,000.

World-renowned actress and peace advocate Margot Kidder addressed a capacity crowd at the annual Illuminations Luncheon that generated $80,000 for BC Women’s Hospital.

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Collectors Plant Auction ChairWOMAN Gillian Beattie and UBC’s Friends of the Garden, affectionately known as FOGS, host their fifth annual Collectors Plant Auction Gala in support of the UBC Botanical Garden. ubcbotanicalgarden.org

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WINE & CULINARY GALA the Lions Gate hospital foundation hosts its 11th annual gala fundraiser at THE CAPILANO GOLF & country CLub, in support of a new centre for mental health and addictions. lghfoundation.com

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Luca Piccolo of Holy Cross elementary helped collect a record $380,000 for Cystic Fibrosis researcher James Zlotnik and others at the 65 Red Roses Gala Dinner and Auction.

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LIBRATIONS Luck be a lady tonight…or a librarian! Yours truly hosts North Vancouver CITY Library’s annual fundraiser, a Casino Royale-themed shindig at the Pinnacle Hotel. Guests encouraged to dress like James Bond and his seductive female leads. cnv.org

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