CONTRIBUTORS

ANDREW LY HAIRSTYLIST The gig “All I did was add a bit of salt spray and shake their hair out and call it a day,” says native Calgarian Ly of the au naturel tousled waves on the models in “Coat Tales” (p. 90). Fading out “I’m over pastel hair. I don’t even know why it was a thing—I never understood it.” TASHA TILBERG MODEL The gig Tilberg, who was born in Chilliwack, B.C., but has lived all over the world, felt right at home in the eye-catching pop-art threads for our “Off the Wall” shoot (p. 79). “When clothes are intense, they’re all the more fun.” Shopping list “For spring, I’m looking for some cool prints. I also work on a farm, so my go-to is denim. I can dress it up or down, and it’s rugged.” MARIA QAMAR ARTIST

The gig Toronto artist Qamar, a.k.a. @hatecopy, was inspired by “[her] mother’s style in the ’70s and Jackson Pollock” when she designed and painted a pop-art jacket for “Off the Wall” (p. 79). On the road “I’m looking forward to travelling more. I’d love to attend design conferences in South Africa and India—then maybe escape to Bali. I’m addicted to surfing Airbnb and dreaming of where I can fly to next.”

EMILY TAMFO WRITER

The gig Toronto-based Tamfo wonders why we feel so unsatisfied even when we seemingly have it all in “The Young and the Restless” (p. 69). Oprah 2020 “I used to watch Oprah religiously after school. I can’t help but dream that one day I will possess a fraction of the qualities that have made her the woman she is today.”

ALEXANDRA KIMBALL WRITER

The gig In “Pregnant Pause” (p. 74), the Torontonian tackles the stigma around talking about infertility. TMI 4ever “I’ve always been pretty shamelessly confessional in my writing, and it does make me a target for some trolling. But the more I do it, the less it bothers me.”