Edie's Article Archive

When I first met Don McLeod on a busy weekend at Edie Hats, we connected instantly. Since then, our mutual passion for music, hats and mentoring young people has led us to develop an incredibly rewarding, nurturing collaborative friendship.

Live performance is a gift. It is a magical, fleeting experience that can never be duplicated or exceeded.Not even by the most advanced digital wizardry or precise cinematography. If performance is so momentary, so transient, so impossible to recapture, what on earth makes people want to work so hard to do it?Why spend all that [...]

I love Vogue for inspirational purposes. The imagery is always so intentional…meant to be challenging, meant to be inspirational, or even in the case of the advertisements, meant to stand out. I was flipping through the February ’08 issue and happened across these full-page ads for Mochino and Mulberry. I love how the Mulberry ad presents a [...]

Having earlier exhausted my trusty male assistant at the Paris Flea Market, (he not possessing the killer instinct or endurance needed for shoe shopping). I like a lioness on the plains of Africa set out to hunt. I ventured out alone as I did not have any women companions, nor gay compadres to continue this ritual, in the Mecca  of  one of the [...]

Ohhh… Paris and Shopping. What a place to perform this basic animal instinct of hunting and gathering.    One of my goals here in Paris, is to hit the fleamarkets, and hunt for treasures  for the Edie Hats renovation to start in January when we get back, and with Paris being the main inspiration of the design…we have a budget set for “Paris things”. Paris [...]

For the almost 20 years that Edie Hats has been on Granville Island, we’ve had the honor of being regarded as one of Vancouver’s Best Landmarks. We have a cherished community of local and worldwide customers/Edie Hats lovers. Many of our “customer family” grew up with the store, having been brought here since they were [...]