Liz Guber

4 weeks ago | fashionmagazine.com | Liz Guber

The Westman Atelier founder shares how she creates her luxurious, chic and high performing products. Gucci Westman is sitting across from me at the corner table at Cafe Boulud inside Toronto’s Four Seasons hotel. In front of her is a piping hot almond-milk latte, a bowl of blueberries and a small tray displaying some products from her hit beauty line, Westman Atelier.

1 month ago | fashionmagazine.com | Liz Guber

“I have yet to run out of questions I can ask about footwear,” says Elizabeth Semmelhack, the director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum as she reflects on the museum’s 30th anniversary. Semmelhack has worked at the Bata Shoe Museum for 25 of those years, staging exhibitions dedicated to everything from the power-dressing and consumerism of the ’80s to a retrospective on Manolo Blahnik. For its anniversary exhibition, Semmelhack turned to cowboy boots.

1 month ago | fashionmagazine.com | Liz Guber

Chanel’s colourful, beautiful world is a testament to the power of teamwork. I have never been good at working solo, and my career so far—whether on teams at fashion magazines or at digital start-ups—essentially confirms this. My brain craves collaboration, and I firmly believe that the best outcomes happen when individual talents are able to bounce ideas off one another like atoms to create completely new ones. Do I sound like a cheesy corporate handbook yet? Maybe.

2 months ago | fashionmagazine.com | Liz Guber

In my early twenties I had a very beautiful friend. She was so gorgeous that one evening while we were hanging out at a bar, a man sent over a hot chocolate to our table because he thought she looked sad. She had not one good feature but plenty—among them, her nails. “She has hands like a Disney princess,” a mutual friend of ours once noted. I, on the other hand, did not get the Disney-princess hand gene.

2 months ago | fashionmagazine.com | Liz Guber

A true blazer aficionado on her top picks of the season. Just don’t call them trends. By Liz GuberDate April 5, 2025About a year into the pandemic, amid extended office closures, I took a new, fully remote job, turning my temporary WFH setup into an indefinite one. As weeks turned into months, and then years, my beloved blazer collection gathered dust. With no boardrooms to walk into, or power lunches to be had, it’s like my wardrobe breathed a relaxed sigh. Here’s the thing, though: I love blazers.