Cormac Newman

1 week ago | sharpmagazine.com | Cormac Newman

Golf seems to get more popular every year. Per CBS Sports, the 2025 Masters peaked at a staggering 19.5 million viewers — that’s the highest total in eight years. Whether you’re intrigued by the course or content to hang in the clubhouse, golfing culture offers one aspect that’s guaranteed to please: style. Defined by pastels and polos, the clean-cut aesthetic is a welcome reprieve from heavy winter coats and dark palettes (and these days, we’ll take all the light we can get).

1 week ago | sharpmagazine.com | Cormac Newman

From April 10th to May 1st, 2025, “Andy Warhol: Factory Made” will light up Toronto’s Taglialatella Gallery: a chic, contemporary space perched in the centre of Yorkville. When I speak to Alan Ganev, managing partner at Taglialatella, he’s in the thick of it: forty works — including prints, textiles, and a shiny silver wig — have just arrived from New York, where the travelling exhibition debuted last month. Gearing up for its next act in Canada’s largest city, the exhibition promises to impress.

2 weeks ago | sharpmagazine.com | Cormac Newman

Have you ever heard of the lipstick index? Coined by Leonard Lauder — who happens to be on the board of Estée Lauder, so take the following with a grain of salt — the lipstick index posits that, during economic downturns, small luxuries like lipstick actually see their sales increase. Lauder proposes that consumers, plagued by various financial calamities (a trade war, perhaps), swap big-ticket items for smaller luxuries in the self-care space to satisfy their retail cravings.

2 weeks ago | sharpmagazine.com | Cormac Newman

David Blaine. The name evokes a slew of images; perhaps you’ll recall his 44-day residency in a glass box, suspended above the river Thames — a stunt that made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic — or maybe you watched in disbelief as the magician-slash-mentalist held his breath for a record-breaking 17 minutes (and four seconds).

1 month ago | sharpmagazine.com | Cormac Newman

When I first caught wind of Christian Allaire, I was sitting on the plush couch of a Yorkville office, surrounded by a few racks of not-yet-released clothing. It was October of 2023, and I was there to meet Justin Jacob Louis, founder and creative director of SECTION 35 — one of Canada’s more recognizable streetwear brands. Just a month before, the Nehiyaw (Plains Cree) designer had launched his eponymous high-end label at New York Fashion Week.