City Style and Living - Winter 2007/2008 - (Page 4)

Inside City Style & Living W From the Editors ON THE BRINK the edge of a giant cliff graduating from university. Instead of elation, we felt a pang of bewilderment. It is strange too, to be launching a magazine when every day, new media are being created. It begs the question, what is a magazine? Does it really matter? Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple read about how to make a computer in a magazine. Benjamin Franklin and most of the great novelists such as Charles Dickens had their works first published in magazines. We want this magazine to be about beauty, truth and inspiration, yet we want to translate those lofty ideals into practical reality. We can call it the brink, the cliff, the edge, Winter. Ultimately, we have learned, it is a threshold - a portal into another realm, another phase that all of us encounter. Like the captivating closet from the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe this leap takes you somewhere else. We hope that the excitement that we, together with all of our contributors, feel in preparing the photos, finessing the layout, and writing the stories is palpable in these pages. We want to share ideas and knowledge with our readers on the topics of Food, Fashion and Travel in Calgary and around the world. Our goal is simple. We hope that inside the pages of City Style and Living: will truly inspire, captivate, and transport you. CSL Here we are on the brink, happy and proud to be bringing you the premier issue of City Style and Living. Only a few years ago, it seemed like a faraway dream, a discussion and nothing more. Now all the elements have come together. Sometimes, we have learned, you have to wait for the right time, you have to be bold. “What a weird time to be launching a magazine,” said a friend, “I mean with the holidays, and the year ending.” It is ironic to be launching the premier issue of City Style and Living when all around us winter is raging. Winter is a time of withering, of hibernation, when everything appears to slow down or sleep. Traditionally, it is a time of endings. We celebrate old year’s day and we say goodbye to the things that were, to all the plans and ideas we envisaged 364 days ago. Yet, it seems we’ve been writing this magazine our entire lives. Whether in words, or pictures or video, or audio, it did not matter, the story was always paramount. In E.C.S, we remember getting into trouble for writing stories rather than playing with toys. It was a trend that would continue through high school and University - writing notes to the teacher on a final test in High school Math, explaining the reasoning behind the faulted calculations, or writing an Economics term paper on the creative pressure that Haute Couture designers face to become a profitable business entity (anyone?). Needless to say, these resulted in mostly unfruitful ends. Then, there we were again on elcome HAVE A QUESTION, COMMENT OR SUGGESTION FOR CITY STYLE AND LIVING? WRITE TO US AT EDITORS CITYSTYLEANDLIVING.COM. WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! 4 | WINTER 2007/2008 | citystyleandliving.com Kailash and Shivana http://citystyleandliving.com

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City Style and Living - Winter 2007/2008 Contents Editor’s Note Website Behind the Cover Contributors The District Calgary’s Holiday Storefront Windows: Through the Looking Glass Need it Want it Fusion Culinary Adventure Champagne 101: Tiny Bubbles Covet Prêt-à-porter Fashion Adventure Resort Wear Enchanted Evening Passport 24 Hours in Paris Anatomy of... Costa Rica: In Search of the Resplendent Quetzal Final Thought

City Style and Living - Winter 2007/2008

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