Globe and Mail Style columnist Karen von Hahn is the country’s pre-eminent voice on trends in the art of consumption. As host and producer of the groundbreaking television program The Goods, she introduced a whole new way of looking at social trends through the material world. A contributing Style editor at More magazine, she also writes for a number of publications, and is a regular commentator on lifestyle trends for television and radio. Karen is also the author of one book, The Hip Guide to Toronto.
Fear of contagion is catching on
Why are we all so obsessed with the idea of contagion?
Crisis creates opportunity? Yeah, whatever, sounds good
Are these the worst of times or the best of times?
Mama, don't take my Polaroid away
The world is looking instantly brighter thanks to the Impossible Project
The originals, R.I.P.
While the culture appears to revere and admire innovation, the truth is that we seem to be doing everything we can to limit it
Just the facsimiles, ma'am
How crazy is it really to propose that we are all, to some degree, under a Capgras delusion?
My favourite tourist destination is someone else's life
Part of the magic of adventuring in other people's cottages is that they are an anthropological compost of relics
Call in sick, uncork the rosé and take a Roman Holiday from the recession
In this summer of staycations and grey skies, try curling up with any of these high-style film gems
Space: the boring frontier
I am the first to admit that space has always left me cold
Why I'm feeling so trashed
All I think about now is garbage.
In our Photoshop world, Jacko was the consummate self-made man
The endless TV loops documenting Jackson's physical transformation over the decades will never be buried
