Currently Supporting 48 Designers

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ANN'S LADYBUGS ~ A.S.K POTTERY ~ AZKIS DESIGNS ~  BABIBU ~ BEACHES BLACK & WHITE ~  BAZANT 
BERIT DULLERUD  ~ BIJU ~ CANDY APPLE PRESS ~ CINQO ~ C COMME CA ~ CONIGLIVERDI ~  DESIGNS BY PEENO   DEUXME ~ DEVICE ~ DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
~ DOLLFACE JEWELLERY ~  ELECTRIC LOLLIPOP
FREAKY SQUISH SQUAD  ~ GARDEN DUB ~ HAROBED DESIGNS ~  ICY JEWELLERY ~ ILLYRIA DESIGNS
JAMIES DOG COUTURE ~ JENNIFER GLASGOW DESIGN ~ KALEIDA ECLECTICS
KALI CLOTHING ~  KAREN P ~ KITSCH ~ LETITIA HENVILLE ~ MELISMA ~ MY BELLE BIJOUX ~ NINA
NOISY BUTTERFLY ~  OSAZ JOSPEHINE 
~ SAMANTHA S ~  SARAH SMILE ~ SASSY PEACOCK  ~ SO-FINE
SKARCE
~ STAFFORD JEWELLERY DESIGN  ~ SUE'S DESIGNS ~ SUGARLOAF ~ THAT GIRL TRA
TICKLE ME FASHIONS ~ TIFFANY ~ TINY MODERNIST ~ WENDY

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Ann's Ladybugs

Ann's Ladybugs... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Babibu

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Babibu is an eco-friendly line of bamboo baby basics. All babibu products are proudly designed and handmade in Canada using high quality bamboo fabric to ensure the ultimate comfort and safety for your baby and our planet!

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Beaches Black & White

Beaches Black & White... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Bazant

Bazant Unique Adornments... Lara Bazant has been collecting rare materials and transforming them into wearable art for more than fifteen years. Bazant Unique Adornments provides ethical and eco-friendly jewelry alternatives, and inspires individualism through creativity and culture. Lara travels across the globe to source fair trade, recyclable and sustainable materials, then returns to her Toronto studio where she designs and fabricates sterling silver creations that incorporate her many finds. With the intuitive combination of uncommon materials, each necklace, earring, bracelet and ring comes alive with its own unique story and theme. The pieces allow the wearer to experience a bit of history while expressing individual style.

Lara's one-of-a-kind and limited edition designs were born out of her experiences as a teenager living in Pakistan. Brought there during the Gulf War by her father who was involved with the United Nations, Bazant began going to the traditional Friday markets and fell in love with what she saw. Her fascinations with third world craftsmanship lead to the process of collecting materials directly from the source. As a result, each piece promotes a fair wage for artisans worldwide.
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Berit Dullerud

Berit Dullerud makes baby quilts made from 100% cotton.
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Biju

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I have been working with crystals and semiprecious stones for over 10 years now. My personal experience showed me that Nature is never wrong, its beauty shows the one and only perfection of this world.

The stones that I chose to work with are priceless, they are the core-soul of the planet we live on, and they are simply nourishing our life energy.

If our minds and hearts are open we might as well not only dream of, but experience the Magic of our own beauty!

There's nothing magic in the power of stones; it's all Nature's way of keeping in tough with us!

Beauty is naturally yours!

All jewellery is one-of-a-Kind
All jewellery is hand crafted
All jewellery is energy cleansed
All jewellery is made with Silver and Natural Gemstones
All orders online can be pick up at The Purple Thumb

Custom orders are welcomed!

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Candy Apple Press

Candy Apple Press... Bio & Pic coming soon

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Cinqo

CINQO is a new line of clothing. There line features coats and hoodies with the highest of quality and details possible.
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Designs by Peeno

Designs by Peeno... Bio & Pic coming soon.

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Deuxme

DEUXME has smart, bold line of clothing. Dresses, vests, skirts, etc.
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Device

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Device is for women who love the glamour and fantasy of high fashion, but are more influenced by practical matters such as cost, versatility, and retaining their own unique personal style. The clothing is all about simplicity, quality and versatility, with an emphasis on original design details and fit. Device strives to provide a range of versatile, exclusive, well-made garments that can serve the wearer for years to come. Each garment is made in Toronto, by independent contractors.

Fabric is sourced locally in smaller quantities. With an effort to become more eco-conscious, bamboo fabric is now a permanent addition to the line. Bamboo is much less taxing to the environment to produce than cotton, and its qualities are superior.

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Dirty Little Secret

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Dirty-Little-Secret produces limited edition tees, totes, and intimate apparel for both men and women; designed and screened by various artists who share in their profit. They are driven to promote up and coming talents by exposing individual artists designs onto comfortable and stylish soft cotton briefs, tees and totes.

"tell everyone who's on your undies...or keep it our Dirty-Little-Secret"
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Dollface Jewellery

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  Dianne Wong, designer and owner of Dollface Jewellery, is a self-taught jewellery artist based in Toronto. Her creations are elegant and beautiful – handcrafted with care and precision.

Working also a flight attendant, Dianne finds inspiration in the smiles and energy of people she meets during her travels around the world. Her design philosophy involves balancing colour, texture and energy of semi-precious stones, pearls and crystals to create a jewellery brand that is vibrant and easy-to-wear.  Each piece in the Dollface collection is carefully designed to capture the luminescent qualities of natural materials and bring out the beauty, strength and grace in women of all ages.

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Electric Lollipop

Electric Lollipop is made by a Toronto designer, Kelly.
Kelly's style is clean and fresh designs that can be worn for day or evening.
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Freaky Squish Squad

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Freaky Squish Squad is a collection of handmade one-of-a-kind squishable monsters and critters. Each piece is handcrafted from retro and repurposed fabrics. As a Graphic Designer by profession, Renata believe in unique design, detailed personally. Here, her collection of squishy creatures and critters are each unique and one-of-a-kind.

Inspired by vivid colours and interesting textures, Renata began sewing these plush toys to further inspire creativity and to make people smile. Great patterns came from retro fabrics she had collected, and they enabled her to create pieces that were imaginative, simple in design, and delicately detailed.

Renata treasures things that are distinctly individual, and hope you will too.
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Garden Dub

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Georgiana's work is heavily inspired by nature and her travels. She is a studio arts graduate and she enjoys keeping herself busy with anything creative, whether it's painting, photography, or sewing. Georgiana's clothing and accessories reflect her painting training as she likes to create unique items that are pieced together as one would create a painting. When she creates, she likes her work to reflect a feeling or represent a movement in nature, like a bird's flight or a flower's life.

Garden Dub is about  "daydreams in wildflower fields of a European childhood".

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Harobed Designs

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Harobed Designs offers women colorful coverings. Our design philosophy is to provide practical, versatile jackets, wraps, cover-ups, vests and more, which allow you to dress quickly and beautifully. Our jackets offer the career woman an easy way to stretch an existing wardrobe, plus the flexibility to wear the jacket with or without lapels, cuffed or uncuffed (some jackets have 3 sleeve length options). All our garments are made in Canada and most materials are sourced in Canada. All Harobed Designs creations are designed by Deborah Sawyer, a long-time artist and designer based in Toronto.
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Icy Jewellry

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Icy Jewelry has been designing and creating jewelery pieces for over 15 years. She loves to create unique and fresh pieces and is very passionate about her work. She strives to use the best materials to ensure the durability of the piece and is currently working on pieces that have multiple functions for everyday use. 

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Illyria Design

Illyria Design has dresses for any occasion.
If you don't see a dress that suits you Illyria can designs a custom dress for you.
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Jennifer Glasgow Design

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It is the sweet smell in the air that creates the colourful joy we wear.  The sun hits our shoulders and we raise our eyes to the sky.  Spring is upon us and the gorgeous prospects are pushing us forward.  Unwrapping our bodies from months of solemn Winter garb, we feel the intense need to become… Spring.  With love in the air and a spring in our step, Glasgow tempts you to take it further with her invigorating Spring collection.

Jennifer Glasgow has created a precisely joyful collection of separates and dresses that encompass the attitude she aspires to in the season of new beginnings.

Inspired by the 1960’s, the decade of women’s burgeoning freedom, Jennifer explores their optimism through youthful colour and refined shapes.  Bold hues and tones converge with feminine silhouettes.  Inspired by that era but not restricted to it, Glasgow offers a more casual combination of form and colour.  Soft draping, perfect pleating and curvaceous gathering are formidable friends through out this season.

Concentrating on the natural, Glasgow’s use of linen, organic cotton, bamboo and silk voile makes Spring 2010 integral to any woman’s wardrobe.  That intoxicating feeling of fresh cotton and the beautiful drape of bamboo are woven into sumptuously designed pieces.

Blossoming optimism, a sense of joy in the world and the new decade upon us, make this collection primordial.  Through nature friendly textiles and woman friendly designs, Glasgow serves us the blossoming excitement for the new era.

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Kaleida Eclectics

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Vicki Gregory, owner of Kaleida Eclectics is a self-taught jewelry designer with an artistic background based in the rolling foothills of  Western Quebec.

Her creations are earthy and organic with a little sparkle - designed to last with balance, comfort and quality
materials in mind.

She is a magpie for all things shiny and colourful and can often be found in her home studio surrounded by wire, metals and beads. Passionate about metals - Brass, copper or silver find a way into all her designs.

Vicki believes in supporting handmade, and will often incorporate artisan made or fair trade beads
and charms into her designs.

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Kali Clothing

Kālī ( काल ी ) n. is the Hindu Mother Goddess who personifies nature’s duality. She represents life-giving creative processes as well as life-taking destructive processes. Long misunderstood as merely a symbol of death and destruction, Kali is a destroyer of human ignorance but also a Goddess who brings creativity and preserves world order. 

Kali Clothing is focused in providing unique designs, on sweatshop and cruelty free apparel that isn't your generic silkscreened tee!
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Karen Prokopec

Karen Prokopec creates beautiful acrylic painting on canvas. Karen describes her paintings as an exploration of color, never knowing what will become of them as they evolve. Karen can often be found painting in her third floor studio in the wee hours of the morning with a cat (or two) on her lap.
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Kitsch

Kitsch... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Letitia Henville

Letitia Henville is a graduate student of English Literature in Toronto. She incorporates items that she finds on her various travels with vintage and glass beads to create a fun, flirty sense of romantic jewelery.
Her pieces are the perfect splash to a summer outfit.
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Melisma

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  “Turn, give me a glance, and lay thy bright long eyes upon me
                                                Asakda Mala, 6th century Sri Lankan poet.

Melisma invites you to step into the sensual luxury of bygone times. Inspired by ancient patterns from the royal courts of Sri Lanka, Melisma creates intricate wire work designs in 18 carat gold, sterling silver and copper, embellished with fresh water pearls, gemstones, Swarovksi crystals and vintage beads. 

Designer Aparna Halpé brings an eye for detail, and a command of the poetry of color and texture to her wire work. Using traditional and innovative wire work techniques, she creates pieces that nudge your imagination down the most delightful paths.

Go ahead, create your own story – custom work is welcome!

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My Belle Bijoux

My Belle Bijoux creates pendants, rings, bracelets, earrings and broches from wood and wire. A must see!
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Nina

Nina... Bio & Pic coming soon

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Noisy Butterfly

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  The artistic spirit behind Noisy Butterfly is Raquel Timmerman.  This self taught designer has been creating her whimsical pieces since 2005.  A Guyana native, she has called Toronto her home for the past 30 years.  She started to design and create jewelry for herself.  However, working in the financial district of downtown Toronto, Her pieces soon started to capture the attentions of many of her co-workers, many of her peers and even her friends and family.  A new passion was born.

Raquel’s inspiration derives from many different aspects of her life; her, travels, her friends, the people she meets, nature and of course, current fashions and trends.  She takes great pleasure in producing pieces that are contrived of Sterling Silver, Semi-precious Stones, Crystal, Brass, band many unique findings. 

"I like to challenge myself to experiment with color and texture in order to create distinctive, playful, sexy affordable pieces.  I strive to capture elegance, beauty and diversity in each and every single one of my creations”.


Look for this up and coming designer.  As the pieces are a form of expression for Raquel, they also become a form of expression for the client who wears it.


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Osez Josephine

Osez Josephine... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Samantha S

Samantha S... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Sarah Smile

Sarah Smile... Bio & Pic coming soon

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Sassy Peacock

  Sassy Peacock designs are inspired by the modern woman - dynamic and charismatic yet classy and fashionable. Sassy Peacock's jewelry is stylish, hand-made featuring European and Swarovski crystals, and an array of unique beads and findings as well as a collection of sterling silver and sterling silver overlay products.  

Their products are hypoallergenic and nickel free with customers' satisfaction guaranteed.   Sassy Peacock welcomes requests for custom designs.  Whether it's for your bridal party or a loved one, they will work with you to create something to meet your special needs.
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So-Fine

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  So-Fine™ began its endeavors in Vancouver, B.C in 2001 and has been growing steadily ever since. In October of 2006, the company expanded east to make its mark on the legendary Montreal fashion scene.

The inspiration for So-Fine™ is rooted in being fashionable, functional, comfortable and fun. These qualities are key in having a garment that satisfies on many levels. So-Fine™ clothing is extremely diverse and has styles ranging between fashionable day-to-day attire, black tie finery and funkadelic party wear.

Integrity and soulful intentions are the basis of So-Fine’s™ business ethics and standards. So-Fine™ is 100% Canadian owned and operated and all So-Fine™ products are manufactured with the highest integrity in
Canada.

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Skarce

Skarce... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Sue's Designs

Sue's Designs... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Sugarloaf

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Experience handmade soap from scratch made with premium oils and emollients such as olive oil and shea butter to gently clean and condition your skin.   Not only are cold process soaps 100% biodegradable, but they are naturally free of detergents, sulphates, and phosphates which makes them a good move for your skin and the environment.  Choose from over a dozen scents to soothe, invigorate or escape.  It's an affordable luxury you'll soon wonder how you lived without!
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Tickle Me Fashions

Tickle Me Fashions... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Tiffany

Tiffany... Bio & Pic coming soon
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Tiny Modernist

Tiny Modernist... Bio & Pic coming soon

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Wendy

Wendy... Bio & Pic coming soon
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