Happy Halloween! Whether you celebrated this weekend or tonight, I hope that you’ve had a great time!

With November on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking about holiday parties! (If you haven’t
been already.) Holiday is one of my favourite fashion seasons with its lush textures and
dramatic design. It’s also a fantastic excuse to wear sequins and sparkles. This season, I’m
focused on my feet and can’t wait to shop for new glittery shoes. Here are a couple of my
illustrated picks from Stuart Weitzman and Jimmy Choo. Have a great weekend!

I’m very excited to announce that my work is being shown at one of my favourite
restaurants, Sima Sushi in downtown Kingston. The show will be up until January and
features some of my most recent work, including the “Summer’s End” painting shown
above. Sima is located between at 66 Princess St., between Wellington and King. The
food is fantastic and well worth a visit. Have a great day!

I have just wrapped up an amazing week, taking in the shows at LG Fashion Week with good
friend and owner/buyer for Bicyclette Boutique, Paige Boersma. There’s a lot to look
forward to in Spring 2012. Some of my favourites are the sleek silhouettes, sheer fabrics,
polka dots and more stripes. There is so much colour with bright red, chartreuse, bold blue,
and orange. I can hardly wait to get back to my paints to start channeling all of this new
inspiration! Until then, I will leave you with some fashion week links and a few of my personal
shots from the week. Have a fantastic weekend!

- Great show and backstage videos at BlogTo .
- For trends on and off the runway visit Toronto Life’s Blog .
- Check out She Does The City for fantastic photos and show reviews.
- And don’t forget to visit the official LG Fashion Week Blog .

I am so happy to see colour in stores this fall, and not just red, but amazing citrus colours and
pinks that are usually reserved for Spring and Summer. These colours were the inspiration for
this new piece. This week I’m at LG Fashion Week in Toronto scoping out the Spring 2012 collections.
I’m so excited to see what’s coming next and can’t wait to share some of my favourites. Hope that
you enjoy the new illustration and have a great day!

Flowers are the starting point for many of my illustrations and designs. When I saw these
roses, I fell in love to the bright marigold colour and couldn’t wait to design an invitation
with it. I hope that you like the end result! If you’re interested in these invitations for your
own event, contact me at alex@alexperlin.com.

I hope that you are having a good week back to work and real life after Thanksgiving!
I always find it tough to buckle down and get “serious” after a holiday, but yesterday a
good friend gave me a great tip that’s had me hard at work all day and night. She suggested
working with glitter and now I’m glittering absolutely everything! While I was never big on
glitter as a kid, I am an avid admirer of Martha Stewart and she is, as you may know, the
Queen of glitter. There are many more paintings to come!

So what do you think, do you love glitter as much as I do? Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you have all enjoyed a fantastic long weekend. Mine
was packed, but today I spent the day experimenting with my new watercolour set. I love
it! So, in the spirit of the holiday, here’s an illustration of one of my favourite Thanksgiving
treats. Hope that you ate lots of pie and that your weekend has been great!