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Our Parkdale, Toronto office is usually open 12am-6pm Monday thru Thursday and Saturday (closed Friday and Sunday) 416-531-3145

WORNETTES

Editor-in-Pants & Publisher
Serah-Marie McMahon has most of a BFA in Fibre Arts that she fully intends to complete one day. Her art practice concentrates on quilt making techniques and DeWitt Clinton. She is a sometime contributor to Broken Pencil and Shameless Magazine, and published the 2008 Puces Pop Program and A Very Basic Introduction to the Sewing Machine zine. She has taught crafty workshops in Montreal but now lives in Toronto and is sadly much less crafty. She keeps house with her three cats and husband Ted.
serahmarie @ wornjournal.com

Managing Editor
Coco Buck (aka G. Stegelmann) wrote her first book, The Girl Who Had Long Hair, at the age of six. A poignant story of loss and redemption, it was readily mimeographed by Mrs. Dorothy Ledgley, and added to the permanent collection at Our Lady of Lourdes elementary school library in 1978. After almost graduating high school, she left her home in Delaware, Ontario, to pursue many prestigious retail service jobs before, during, and after completing her undergraduate degree in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Coco is also a very successful part-time secretary and video store clerk, occasionally taking on fashion styling and photography projects for personal fulfillment, but almost never financial gain. Now at the end of a well-deserved thirty year break from serious literary endeavour, she is furiously working on thinking about the follow-up to her first book. She is undaunted by the current slump in the mimeograph publishing industry. Coco Buck lives, works, and rides her bike in Toronto, Canada.
g @ wornjournal.com

Senior Editor & Academic Liason - New York
Sonya Topolnisky is currently a PhD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City where she recently completed her MA thesis; What That Hillbilly Cat Dragged In: Elvis Presley’s Transgressive Self-fashioning 1954-1958 focusing on the relationships between dress, subculture and identity construction. Her current research interests center around mid-century America and the intersections between fashion, art, and popular culture. She has worked extensively with early fashion periodicals, with the costume collection at the Museum of the City of New York, and is employed at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. sonya @ wornjournal.com

Senior Editor & Books Editor - Montreal
Emily Raine is a Montrealer, a freelance writer, a freedom fighter, a 45 collector, a compulsive reader, a freakbeat connoisseur, a foodie and, above all, a lady. She is also a PhD candidate in the Communications program at McGill University, where she studies political economy and philosophy, music and noise theory, and service labour. While she likes to pretend that she’s really into fashion, Emily is really just one of those people who buys the same four dresses over and over with slightly different details, but the other Worn staff kindly pretend not to notice. She mixes a mean caipiroska cocktail. emilyr @ wornjournal.com

Assistant Editor
Sara Forsyth grew up in rural Nova Scotia. Over the years she learned how to play the French horn (badly), plié (badly), and make skirts from old jeans (of which she has about a dozen). She went to journalism school on a whim and graduated in 2007. Since then she’s had a successful career as an intern. Sara’s first fashion moment occurred on her fifth birthday, April 10, 1990. She wore: black leggings; an oversize purple tee-shirt, tied in a knot at the waist; pink, peep-toe heels with magenta gems; and her hair was crimped. She’s never been trendier.

saraf @ wornjournal.com

Head of Events
Meagan Allison-Hancock began throwing soirees at the tender age of seven when she organized her birthday party aboard a riverboat, complete with an elaborate seating plan and formal dress code. She first encountered the publication at a Canzine event, and after tearing through a three-pack cover to cover, she was determined to get involved. After all, Worn events may be the closest Meagan ever comes to her dream job: planning parties in the Roaring Twenties, with a perfect finger wave and a collection of cloche hats. Stay tuned for a Great Gatsby-esque glamorous affair - she’s determined to make it happen before 2020. events @ wornjounal.com

Copyeditor
Kate Schweishelm’s childhood fashion icon was Annie – post-Daddy Warbucks, of course – after whom she would obsessively style herself so that she could sit on the window sill and wistfully lip-sync along to the film’s soundtrack. She was also the kind of kid who once forgot it was Easter morning because she was too busy filling out a particularly enthralling phonics workbook. When she grew up she got a couple of degrees from McGill and Ryerson in English and Cultural Studies, started a vintage clothing business, and began compulsively collecting examples of the word “everyday” being used incorrectly in an array of high profile ad campaigns and copywriting. She was born and raised in the heart of Toronto, but her own heart belongs to Montreal and Berlin. kate @ wornjournal.com

Regular Contributor
Rea McNamara’s relationship with style began in junior kindergarten according to her mother, Anne Marie McNamara (an early patron of Trinidadian designer Meiling and former owner of a pair of dark denim Maggie T’s), “I use to try and lay out her clothes the night before, but she always had a very fixed idea of what she wanted to wear. We had our biggest fights because she knew what colours and accessories were right for her.” Since then, she’s been published in the National Post, Shameless Magazine and Sway Magazine, and writes a monthly style column for EYE Weekly. She lives in Toronto, and curates an exploration of the city’s closeted fashion history for Century 66. Her fashion icon? Anne Marie McNamara. rea @ wornjournal.com

Current Interns:
editorial: Esme Hogeveen, Stephanie Herold & Hillary Predko
website: Sarah Phillips & Carmen Vicente
events: Chelsea McBroom & Alexandra Barton

Past Interns:
Kate Schweishelm
Anna Fitzpatrick
Victoria Rumi
Laura Hensley
Melissa Kuril
Adey Farah

Wornettes at large:
Joanna Rankin
Mackenzie Lashbrook
Pascale L. Giorgiev
Lola Lamb
Emily Paige
Ted Kulczycky
Tessa Gold-Smith
Risa Dickens
Bella B.
Bonnie DeKuyper