Queen of Hearts – Thurs. Feb. 11, 6-9pm

This Thursday!

After last year’s roaring success the Queen of Hearts Stroll is back! Valentine’s Day is nearly here and the shops along Queen West are heating things up… here’s how it works:

Visit one of our 15 participating shops (look for the attached poster in the window) and pick up the Queen of Hearts passport. Have a drink, get your passport stamped, and move on to the next boutique. Once your passport has 10 stamps, you can receive the special gifts or promotions offered by all of the shops (valid until Feb 28, 2010). Not bad for a night of festive fun!

The Queen of Hearts Boutiques are:
Greenshag, Cabaret, Simon Carter, Cat Tilt, Preloved, Tealish, The Spice Trader, Olive Pit, Ziliotto, Carte Blanche, Charlie, Robber, Heel Boy, Neat, and Type.

At Robber, your reward for taking part in the Queen of Hearts is a pretty sweet one: spend $150 or more, get $50 off, until the end of February!

Hope to see you Thursday night!

New lines for Spring!

Wiarton Willie says we have six more weeks of winter, but we say spring is here! Big news at Robber – we’re bringing in three new lines that you are going to love! Let me introduce you to our new friends (with info mostly cut and pasted from their websites!)…

Filippa K
By combining timeless simplicity with contemporary edge, Filippa K makes distinctive fashion for modern urbanites with personal integrity and an eye for good design. Plus, whenever we see our rep Emma, she plies us with Swedish chocolates. Everybody wins.

Karen Walker
Karen Walker is a brand from New Zealand with a reputation for its original, effortless and unpretentious style. Karen Walker collections are high casual with one foot in tailoring and the other in street wear. The reoccurring theme is taking extremes and pushing them together – masculine and feminine, tailored and street, luxury and non luxury, dark and super-cute. This season, her prints are nautical, girly and whimsical all at the same time. I love it.

Lover
Susien Chong and Nic Briand’s Australian line has long been a favorite of ours. With a unique approach to feminine fashion, the label’s pop culture references, quirky detailing and intimate fabrication have seen in placed on numerous “One to Watch” lists. Be prepared to like Susien and Nic even more after looking at their profile on The Selby.

We’ll let you know when pieces start to arrive in the shop, but thought you might need some good news to get you through the next few weeks!

New from Alternative Apparel

Just got a couple gigantic boxes of new Spring basics from Alternative Apparel! Here’s a sampling…

Molly crop burnout tee in tomato (we have this in black too):

Modal silk boyfriend tee in cairo (and we also have navy):

An old favourite in new colours – the deep V burnout tee in violet (plus washed navy):

And the Tootie deep V floral tee, shown here in white but we have the black version (see swatch below):

Start getting excited about Spring, you guys! Lots more shipments coming soon.

Valentine’s Day cards

Not only do we have tons of perfect gift ideas for your lady-friend, but our very own Caitlyn (aka Lemonade) has also made us some awesome hand-drawn cards that are perfect for both boys and girls! Here’s a sneak peek:

We’re back!

And with a few more new things from Dace!

Joelle top

Jordane dress

Winter Vacation

Robber will be closed for a brief winter holiday from Monday Jan. 25 to Thursday Jan. 28, reopening Friday Jan. 29 at noon. Wooooooo, giant sweaters and cozying up by the fire and stuff! But don’t worry, still lots of time to shop this weekend…

A few new things

Spring pieces are slowly starting to trickle in! We just received the beautiful new Brielle dress from Dace (shown here in blue, but we have black):

And for those of you who saw this article in the Toronto Star and have been pining away for a campfire necklace ever since, your prayers have been answered! Lots of new Bonfire pieces now in stock.

Further markdowns

Still so much great stuff left, and it’s now even cheaper! Up to 40% off Fall/Winter stock, and up to 65% off remaining pieces from Spring/Summer. Hurry hurry!

Aww shucks, thanks guys!

We came in #2 in the BlogTO poll for Best New Fashion Stores in Toronto, 2009! There are tons of other great shops on the list too – check it out here.

New(ish) jewelry

Since accessories are 15% off today, I thought I’d show you some of the new jewelry we got around the holidays that you may not have seen yet…

KOF etched leaf earrings

BonFire wolf necklace

ChainChainChained feather lariat

ChainChainChained Indian sun necklace

BonFire teepee necklace

Tons of other gems in the shop too!