NYFW Fashion Edit: Public School RTW SS16

This post is a part of Youth Are Awesome’s coverage of New York Fashion Week 2015.  In just handful of years, Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne have seen incredible development of their brand. Public School has garnered top industry praise, winning the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2013, the CFDA Award for Menswear Design in 2014 and the first-ever International Woolmark Prize for menswear in 2015. Known…

Leaving A Mark

Rocks… because they take forever until they begin to break down. Names… because they belong to you, and only you. Some like to write names on a padlock and lock it onto the Pont des Arts, me included. However, there’s always a less expensive yet meaningful way: rocks. We can carve a part of ourselves…

Morningside Music Bridge: Celebrating International Musical Greatness

When I first heard about Mount Royal Conservatory’s Morningside Music Bridge (MMB) program from friend and participant Yan Li a few years back, I thought, “Wow, that sounds too good to be true.” That was back in my unseasoned days of both musicianship and citizenship so I decided to sit back and listen to her stories of…

5 microwave hacks for food

No time to cook? Why not use the microwave to quickly make some delicious food? Society has a preconceived idea that microwaved food is bad for your health, however that is not always true. Skip out on packaged microwavable food and use some fresh ingredients. It barely takes any time to microwave, as well as creating far less…

Homemade apple jam

Homemade Apple Jam I had some leftover apples from my most recent attempt at making apple pie, and they were becoming soft. Wondering what purpose I could put them to, I scrounged around a little on the internet, and found a number of uses for old apples. Looking at the ingredients I currently had, I decided…