CAREER TIMELINE

 

2014

• Dubbed "Countess of Canadian Fashion" by PRESS The Fashion Magazine 

• Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI) [mentor] 

• Fashion Publicity & PR workshop instructor at Youth Employment Services and Toronto Fashion Incubator‘s Passion For Fashion program

 

2013

• Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI) [mentor] 

• Guest of Honour at the St. Andrew's Annual Ball

• Guest Speaker for QFFBI

• Guest model for Daniel Leather‘s “12 Days of Danier” holiday campaign

• Judge for Faze Magazine‘s Be Empowered Style Event

• Judge for the prestigious P&G Beauty and Grooming Awards

• Fashion Publicity & PR workshop instructor at Youth Employment Services and Toronto Fashion Incubator‘s Passion For Fashion program

• Guest model for 3.1 Philip Lim for Target campaign

• RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award nominee

• CANFAR Kiss Award Winner: Volunteer of the Year

• Launched Stylist Box [founder, co-owner with Christian Dare] 

• Judge for Passion For Fashion Awards, Fashionista's Den Competition at Youth Employment Services

 

2012

• Judge for the prestigious P&G Beauty and Grooming Awards 2012

• Listed as one of Scotland’s Top Tweeters by Herald Scotland, one of Scotland’s top ten fashion Twitter accounts, alongside Jonathan Saunders and Tali Lennox

• Interviewed top fashion personalities and celebrities at the Scottish Fashion Awards for FLARE.com, including Alexa Chung, Hilary Alexander, Christopher Kane, Karen Gillan (Doctor Who), and more.

• Included in Citizens, a photo exhibit by Natalie Castellino. The exhibit featured 20 prominent Torontonians, including Aleksandar Antonijevic, Edward Burtynsky, Roberta Bondar, Anita Clarke, Schuster Gindin, Debra Goldblatt, Susur Lee, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Phyllis Novak, Luis Pacheco, Jason Palma, Laurie H. Pawlitza, Jonah Schein, Dr. Sandy Skotnicki, The Society (Amanda Blakley, Martina Stritesky, Yvonne Ng, Ashleigh Dempster), Philip Sparks, Lyba Spring, Lisa Tant, and Ivan Tchohlev.

• Revive Magazine [contributor]

• RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award nominee

 

2011

• Nominated as Communicator of the Year at the Scottish Fashion Awards in association with VOGUE.com

 

2010 

• TDot TV [fashion host] 

• Coordinator for Passion For Fashion program for at-risk youth, a partnership between Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI) and Youth Employment Services YES

• Magnet Creative Management [founded] 

 

2009

• Inducted into the TFI Hall of Fame

• Featured in FLARE Magazine‘s She’s Got Flare column

• Named one of ‘Toronto’s Fashion Heroes” by NOW Magazine

• The Style Box [co-founded] until December 2009

 

2008 

• Selected as one of Toronto’s Mille Femmes at Luminato

 

2007

• Plutino Group [artist representative, special projects manager] until 2009

 

2003

• B&M Models [senior agent, marketing and promotions director] until 2007

 

2002

• Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI) [program & communications coordinator] until 2003

 

2000

• The Casting Sheet (a division of Armstrong Models) [talent director] until 2002

 

1998

• Graduated from Humber College‘s Fashion Arts Special Events & Promotions Management with honours

 

1997

• Armstrong Models [model agent, men's division] until 2002

 

1990

• Awarded the Fanny Hislop Award

 

1989

• Moved to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland on October 25, 1989