Isabel Slone

Toronto

Freelance Fashion Journalist at Freelance

“noted eggnog scholar”│ journalist on the fashion and freak beat │ bylines in @nytimes, @harpersbazaarus etc. │ (she/her)

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Articles

What It's Like to Work With Your Mom at Your Day Job

1 week ago | fashionmagazine.com | Isabel Slone

“I don’t know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter,” Greta Gerwig told NPR while promoting her coming-of-age film Lady Bird. Mother-daughter relationships can run the gamut from chummy and close to downright estranged, but for the ones who have chosen to go into business together, these complicated relationships seem pretty well figured out.
Job seekers are stuck in an endless cycle of interviews and tests

1 month ago | thelogic.co | Isabel Slone

2025 was supposed to be the year the economy bounced back—but browsing LinkedIn gives a different impression. Peppered amidst the “some personal news” job announcements, #NowHiring and bloviating attempts at thought leadership, are plenty of dispiriting tales involving companies stealing unpaid work from job candidates or automated rejection notices sent minutes after applying for a job.
Inside a Glassy Fortress in Ontario Farm Country

2 months ago | macleans.ca | Isabel Slone

After six years in their compact, 701-square-foot one-bedroom condo in downtown Toronto, Sportsnet hockey reporter Shawn McKenzie and social media creator Sydney Hoffman were squeezed for space. “I didn’t want to take two steps and be in my bedroom anymore,” says McKenzie. In 2021, the couple rented a house in Collingwood, Ontario, for a month, and the expansive space and tranquil surroundings were a revelation.
145/ The best glasses intel from women with killer eyewear game

Jan 22, 2025 | irenekim.substack.com | Irene Kim |Christene Barberich |Kelsey Keith |Isabel Slone

It was during a lesson in Mr. Trachsler’s Grade 4 class that I first noticed the blackboard becoming a blurry black haze when shutting my left eye. That was — eep! — 35 years ago, and I’ve been wearing glasses ever since.
Hiding in plain sight: Americans’ obsession with camouflage is a sign of paranoid times

Dec 14, 2024 | theguardian.com | Isabel Slone

It’s become an inescapable pop culture touchstone. A pattern of crispy brown leaves interspersed with twigs and moss darting around like advancing thickets, peeking out from underneath jackets, plastered on oversize pants and trucker hats.
9 Gorgeous, Highly Giftable Coffee Table Books

Nov 1, 2024 | chatelaine.com | Isabel Slone

There’s no greater pleasure than curling up on the couch and getting lost in the glossy pages of a coffee-table book. The best ones are wholly immersive, so you're not only giving them them a book, but a glorious post-holiday escape. Here are nine new-ish, completely knockout titles to consider. CBK: A Life in Fashion by Sunita Kumar Nair, $82There are few women in history more enigmatic than Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
This woodworker perfected her craft during a summer of racial justice protest

Oct 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Isabel Slone

If it weren’t for Mickey Mouse, Tonda Thompson might never have become a carpenter. During the early weeks of the pandemic, the videographer and infant mortality activist’s then two-year-old son was performing Mickey’s hotdog dance on the living room coffee table, which broke under the weight of his enthusiastic rendition. Thompson was about to head to Target when she realized that another flimsy table would be doomed to fall apart.
How I Learned To Love Orthopaedic Shoes

Oct 8, 2024 | chatelaine.com | Isabel Slone

When you open the door to my shoebox downtown Toronto apartment, the first thing you’ll see is a wall of shoes—a ceiling-high bookcase meticulously lined with clogs, loafers and brogues. The shelf is part space-saving measure (high ceilings = vertical storage) and part Wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities Renaissance nobility used to display their most precious worldly possessions.
Why Isn't More Clothing Made In Canada?

Oct 8, 2024 | chatelaine.com | Isabel Slone

Midway through 2020, a year in which many people abandoned office attire for the warm embrace of sweatpants, the Toronto-based sustainable fashion label Encircled launched its “comfy dress shirt.” Cut from Modal, a soft, jersey-like fibre made from beechwood pulp, the $198 top represented a happy medium between pre- and post pandemic dressing: relaxed yet still dressy enough to wear for endless Zoom meetings. It sold out in less than 48 hours.
Kacey Musgraves Teams Up With Reformation + More Fashion News

Sep 20, 2024 | fashionmagazine.com | Lindsay Anne Delaney |Isabel Slone |Natalie Michie |Stephanie Davoli

Photography courtesy of Reformation Kacey Musgraves Brings Cottagecore to Reformation + More Fashion News Plus, Louis Vuitton's signature pattern comes to life on fine jewellery. By Stephanie Davoli Date September 20, 2024 Kacey Musgraves teams up with Reformation Photography courtesy of Reformation Move over Bella Hadid, there’s a new horse girl in town.