NMA 2015 Nominees: Top 9 Fashion Spreads in Canadian Magazines

The nominees for the 38th annual National Magazine Awards have been announced, and in one of the most popular categories the jury selected 9 finalists for the NMA in Fashion. The Gold and Silver winners will be revealed at the National Magazine Awards gala on June 5 at the Arcadian Court in Toronto. [Tickets & Gala Info].
And the nominees in Fashion are…

Alvaro Goveia, Photographer
Brendan Fisher, Art Director
Sheri Stroh, Hair & Makeup
Catherine Franklin, Fashion & Beauty Editor
Bundle Up: it’s Sweater Weather
Chatelaine

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Eng Lau, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
Double Double
Fashion Magazine

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Eng Lau, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
Heroine Chic
Fashion Magazine

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Eng Lau, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
Human Touch
Fashion Magazine

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Eng Lau, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
Track & Heeled
Fashion Magazine

Norman Wong, Photographer
Jed Tallo, Art Director
Tiyana Grulovic, Stylist
Cody Alain, Hair
Simone Otis, Makeup
Jillian Vieira, Assistant Stylist
La Clique, C’est Chic!
Flare

Norman Wong, Photographer
Jed Tallo, Art Director
Rita Liefhebber, Stylist
Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Props
Warm Bodies
Flare

Arkan Zakharov, Photographer
Daniel MacKinnon, Art Director
Juliana Schiavinatto, Stylist
Mishal Cazmi, Writer
Dream Weaver
Glow Magazine

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Caroline Bishop, Art Director
Tara Williams, Stylist
Alison McGill, Editor
Grace Lee, Makeup
Sheri Strough, Hair
The Icons
WeddingBells

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You can view the complete articles of all National Magazine Awards nominees at magazine-awards.com
Tickets are on sale for the 38th annual National Magazine Awards gala, Friday June 5 at the Arcadian Court in Toronto.

Magazine Industry, News & Events

Happy 30th Anniversary Weddingbells

We’ve been together 30 years, but it feels like just yesterday we met.
This spring Weddingbells turns 30, and the award-winning magazine is celebrating with a special anniversary issue on newsstands now. The magazine also sports one of the most go-to Pinterest pages on the web, perfect for ideas for every wedding.
Over its three decades Weddingbells, published by St. Joseph Media, has won 6 National Magazine Awards for its art direction and wedding fashion and style spreads, from 16 nominations.
The magazine will host an invitation-only 30th anniversary party on April 1.

“This event will showcase some of our incredible wedding and party ideas. From live performances and innovative décor concepts, to an on-trend party menu of cocktail foods, an epic candy table and a very special wedding cake; this will definitely be a celebration to remember.” — Alison McGill, Editor-in-Chief of Weddingbells

Congratulations to the team at Weddingbells and best wishes for another 30 years!

Gala, Integrated Awards, Magazine Industry, News & Events, NMA Winners, Nominees, Visual Awards, Written Awards

Announcing the Winners of the 37th annual National Magazine Awards!

The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) is pleased to announce the winners of the 37th annual National Magazine Awards.
At this year’s gala on June 6, presented by CDS Global and hosted by humourist (and award-winner) Scott Feschuk, the NMAF presented Gold and Silver awards in 47 categories representing the best in Canadian magazines from the year 2013.
Complete list (PDF) of all winners
Full-text of all nominated and winning articles
Twitter highlights
La version française

SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

Magazine of the Year
Sponsored by RBC Royal Bank
Cottage Life

Magazine Website of the Year
Macleans.ca
14720

Tablet Magazine of the Year
Sportsnet

Best New Magazine Writer
Sponsored by Reader’s Digest Foundation
Catherine McIntyre

Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement
Kim Jernigan

Top Winning Magazines at the 37^th National Magazine Awards:

Magazine	Gold	Silver	HM
*The Walrus*	7	6	22
*Maclean’s*	4	1	13
*Maisonneuve*	4	1	9
*L’actualité*	3	2	18
*Report on Business*	3	2	16
*Cottage Life*	3	1	9
*Eighteen Bridges*	3	1	7
*Legion Magazine*	2	0	1
*Western Living*	1	3	4
*Sportsnet*	1	2	7
*The Grid*	1	1	12
*Hazlitt*	1	1	8
*Flare*	1	1	2
*United Church Observer*	1	1	2
*enRoute*	1	1	1
*Malahat Review*	1	1	1
*Torontoist*	1	1	1
*Toronto Life*	0	2	16
*Jobboom*	0	2	0

See the complete list of winners at magazine-awards.com.

INTEGRATED AWARDS – GOLD WINNERS

Best Single Issue
Tenth Anniversary Issue
The Walrus

Magazine Covers
Larry Fink
Report on Business

Infographics
How Much Does a Street Cost?
The Grid

Editorial Package (Web)
Canada’s Best New Restaurants
enRoute
13628

Online Video
Boy Genius
Maclean’s

Single Service Article Package
Calendrier de l’avent
Ricardo

Words & Pictures
Sponsored by CDS Global
Water
The Walrus

WRITING AWARDS – GOLD WINNERS

Arts & Entertainment
Curtis Gillespie
Rebel Without Applause
Eighteen Bridges

Best Short Feature
Paul Wells
Boy Genius
Maclean’s

Blogs
Jamie Bradburn, Kevin Plummer, David Wencer
Historicist
Torontoist

Business
Sponsored by Accenture
Charles Wilkins
This Little Piggy Went to Market…and the Farmer Lost Money
Report on Business

Columns
Sponsored by Impresa Communications Ltd.
Chantal Hébert
Politique
L’actualité

Editorial Package (Print)
Sponsored by Canadian Society of Magazine Editors
Marine Corniou, Dominique Forget, Joel Leblanc, Raymond Lemieux, Chantal Srivastava
Août 2013
Québec Science

Essays
Curtis Gillespie
In The Chair
Eighteen Bridges

Fiction
Jess Taylor
Paul
Little Brother Magazine

Health & Medicine
Ann Silversides
First Do No Harm
Maisonneuve

How-To
Jane Rodmell, David Zimmer
Best Flavour Ever
Cottage Life

Humour
Scott Feschuk
Assemble ingredients. Pause dramatically.
Maclean’s

Investigative Reporting
Adam Day
One Martyr Down
Legion Magazine

One of a Kind
Craig Davidson
The Marineland Dreamland
The Walrus

Personal Journalism
Liz Windhorst Harmer
Blip
Malahat Review

Poetry
Karen Solie
Conversion
Hazlitt

Politics & Public Interest
Lisa Fitterman
The Avenger
The Walrus

Profiles
Omar Mouallem
The Kingdom of Haymour
Eighteen Bridges

Science, Technology & Environment
Sponsored by GE Canada
Alanna Mitchell
Losing the Hooded Grebe
United Church Observer

Service: Health & Family
Sharon Adams
Lest We Forget: The Shocking Crisis Facing Our Wounded Veterans
Legion Magazine

Service: Lifestyle
Valérie Borde
Vive le poisson éco!
L’actualité

Service: Personal Finance & Business
Sponsored by Manulife Financial
Denny Manchee
The Hand-Me-Down Blues
Cottage Life

Society
Dan Werb
The Fix
The Walrus

Sports & Recreation
Jonathan Trudel
La machine à broyer les rêves
L’actualité

Travel
Taras Grescoe
Big Mac
The Walrus

VISUAL AWARDS – GOLD WINNERS

Art Direction of an Entire Issue
Sponsored by The Lowe-Martin Group
Paul Sych
Issue 1
fshnunlimited (f.u.)

Art Direction of a Single Article
Underline Studio
Not in the Age of the Pharaohs
Prefix Photo

Beauty
John Van Der Schilden, Photographer
Brittany Eccles, Art Director
Juliana Schiavinatto, Stylist
Vanessa Craft, Beauty Director
Masterpiece Theatre
ELLE Canada

Creative Photography
Paul Weeks
Wall Candy
Azure

Fashion
Petra Collins, Photographer
Jed Tallo, Art Director
Corey Ng, Stylist
Pastels Take Shape
Flare

Homes & Gardens
Martin Tessler, Photographer
Paul Roelofs, Art Director
Nicole Sjöstedt, Stylist
Bright Idea
Western Living

Illustration
Selena Wong
Old Wounds
Maisonneuve

Magazine Website Design
TheWalrus.ca
The Walrus

Photojournalism & Photo Essay
Sponsored by CNW Group
Brett Gundlock
El Pueblo
Maisonneuve

Portrait Photography
Anya Chibis
Larry Fink
Report on Business

Spot Illustration
Gracia Lam
The Elite Yellow Peril
Maisonneuve

Still-Life Photography
Liam Mogan
Set Pieces
Sharp

ABOUT THE 37^th ANNUAL NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS
More than 500 members of the Canadian magazine industry—publishers, editors, art directors, writers, photographers, illustrators, circulators and more—joined esteemed sponsors and other guests at the 37th annual National Magazine Awards gala on June 6, 2014, at The Carlu in Toronto, presented by CDS Global.
This year, from nearly 2000 individual entries received nationwide, the NMAF’s 238 volunteer judges nominated a total of 376 submissions from 92 different Canadian magazines for awards in 47 written, visual, integrated and special categories.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The National Magazine Awards Foundation acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, as well as the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
The NMAF thanks its corporate sponsors Accenture, GE Canada, Manulife Financial, RBC Royal Bank, The Lowe-Martin Group, Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, Penguin Random House and Reader’s Digest Foundation for their generous financial support of the National Magazine Awards.
The NMAF thanks its media partners Cottage Life Media, Impresa Communications Ltd., Masthead, Rogers Media, TC Media and Toronto Life for their generous support of the National Magazine Awards.
The NMAF thanks its event partners CNW Group and Media Vantage, The Carlu, Daniel et Daniel, Relay Experience, KlixPix and Michèle Champagne for their generous support of the National Magazine Awards.
The NMAF gratefully acknowledges all its suppliers and its contributors who donated gifts in kind to support the awards program. We thank them for their generosity, interest and expertise. Thanks also to our hard-working event volunteers.
And thanks again to our wonderful Master of Ceremonies, Scott Feschuk.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS FOUNDATION
The National Magazine Awards Foundation is a bilingual, not-for-profit institution whose mission is to recognize and promote excellence in the content and creation of Canadian print and digital publications through an annual program of awards and national publicity efforts.
For more information, visit magazine-awards.com and follow us on Twitter (@MagAwards).

Visual Awards

Top 7 Fashion Spreads in Canadian Magazines

The 37th annual National Magazine Awards are barely 2 weeks away. The nominations have been announced, and the Canadian magazine industry is getting ready for the annual awards gala on June 6. [TICKETS]

This year the jury has selected from magazines across Canada 7 finalists for the award for Fashion. Gold and Silver winners will be announced on June 6.

Which do you think is best? Leave a comment or tell us on Twitter: @MagAwards | #NMA14 | #Fashion

Click on each image to view the complete spread.

Wild at Heart

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Sylvain Blais, Art Director
Cary Tauben, Stylist
Wild At Heart
Dress To Kill Magazine

Grey Zone

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Eng Lau, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
Grey Zone
FASHION Magazine

High Contrast

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Maarten Sluyter, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
High Contrast
FASHION Magazine

Passing Time

Chris Nicholls, Photographer
Eng Lau, Art Director
Zeina Esmail, Stylist
Passing Time
FASHION Magazine

Artists in Residence

Norman Wong, Photographer
Michèle Champagne, Art Director
Rita Liefhebber, Stylist
Artists in Residence
Flare

Pastels Take Shape

Petra Collins, Photographer
Jed Tallo, Art Director
Corey Ng, Stylist
Pastels Take Shape
Flare

Neoteric

Evaan Kheraj, Photographer
Mark Reynolds, Art Director
Luisa Rino, Stylist
Neoteric
NUVO Magazine
Check out all the finalists for Fashion on our Facebook page. Which do you think is best? Leave a comment or tell us on Twitter: @MagAwards | #NMA14 | #Fashion
See also:
Top 10 Canadian Magazine Illustrations
Top 9 Infographics in Canadian Magazines
Top 6 Canadian Magazines for Art Direction
How Did They Create That Cover?
Top Magazine Videos in Canada

NMA Winners, Off the Page

Off the Page, with The Coveteur

Off the Page is an exclusive series produced by the NMAF that reaches out to former National Magazine Award winners to find out what their awards have meant to them and what they’re up to now. Off the Page will appear each Thursday on the Magazine Awards blog during the fall of 2012. This week we catch up with the 2011 winners of Best New Visual Creator: The Coveteur. The Coveteur are designer Erin Kleinberg, stylist Stephanie Mark and photographer Jake Rosenberg.

NMAF: At this year’s National Magazine Awards The Coveteur was named Canada’s Best New Visual Creator for your spread “Strictly Top Shelf” in Report on Business magazine. First of all, what is The Coveteur, and where does it make the biggest impact on the world of fashion and style?

The Coveteur: Erin Kleinberg, Jake Rosenberg and Stephanie Mark

The Coveteur: The Coveteur takes you into the closets of today’s celebrities and fashion icons so you can discover their unique style. Our site features exclusive photography and videos and provides a behind the scenes community for fashion lovers. Our followers can collect and share their favorite images in their own “closet” and then shop the look of Coveteurs from around the globe—from New York to Paris, London and beyond.

We make an impact by redefining the way people shop and the way they view the still-life by showcasing the styles of today’s tastemakers in a new light that is also shoppable.

NMAF: How did you get involved with Report on Business, and how did you develop your winning piece—which the judges lauded for “magnifying the desirability of objects”; “a perfect balance of style and composition”—for the magazine?

The Coveteur: We are loyal readers of Report on Business and we were thrilled and honoured when they approached us to contribute. We created a holiday gift guide in signature Coveteur fashion and arranged the products in such a way that brings them to life and makes each one appear as a character in an environment.

Our community enjoys the quirk of an image—a stuffed monkey wearing a pair of designer glasses styled amongst other great products—as it highlights the product when showcased in an unexpected, eccentric way. Keeping the sophisticated Report on Business reader in mind, we chose exceptional, high-end products for the feature.

National Magazine Award-winning layout from The Coveteur, in Report on Business magazine

NMAF: Your online “curations” (coveteurs) seem to borrow a bit from traditional fashion magazine layouts while also being remarkably innovative in tapping the power of social media, digital publishing and e-commerce. What have been some of your influences from the world of magazines—fashion, style, design, etc—while developing this unique approach to exhibition?

The Coveteur: We have all had individual and unique experiences working in these different yet connected areas. Erin worked for W Magazine alongside director Alex White who taught her to push stylistic boundaries, which catches the reader off-guard and calls for a second glance. She recalls a photo shoot with model Doutzen Kroes staged in a field and littered with teddy bears—a consistent quirkiness that has remained an integral part of her styling since.

Stephanie, who went to Parsons [School for Design] for fashion marketing and interned with Kate Lanphear at Elle Magazine, has a keen eye for picking great product from across the globe and is our in-house e-commerce wiz.

Jake’s visual inspiration comes from the work of Ben Watts and his vivid editorial imagery as well as Raymond Meier’s ability to bring product to life through editing. His photography is bright, vivid and intimate, adding a certain “glow” which tells a unique story about each subject and their personal style.

The Coveteur have profiled dozens of styles, including that of Miss Piggy!

NMAF: Do you have any other current or upcoming projects in magazines to tell us about?

The Coveteur: We just shot an exclusive, eight-page spread for the October/November 2012 issue of Air France Madame magazine filled with the best accessories of the season and shot in our distinct stylistic approach. As for what else is coming up? You’ll just have to stay tuned!

Check out all of fantastic curations of Stephanie, Erin and Jake at thecoveteur.com.