Schitt’s Creek Topped Social Media Charts After the Emmys
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![](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://fashionmagazine.com/culture/schitts-creek-emmys-social-media-charts/&title=<em>Schitt’s Creek</em> Topped Social Media Charts After the Emmys&picture=https://cdn.fashionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1199980291-800x526.jpg&description=Following their Emmys sweep earlier this month, Schitt's Creek shot to the top of global social media charts. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Canadian show reached No. 1 on its Social Climbers chart, a weekly list ranking the most popular TV personalities and shows on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
The chart's methodology "blends engagement to entities’ social media accounts along with weekly additions of followers/subscribers," and is based on global data provided by social media analytics company MVP. For the first time ever, Schitt's Creek snagged the top spot in THR's Top Scripted list, recording gains in all social metrics this past week. It received 3.4 million Instagram favourites, up 3,781{6004a87074b6c622dc8235a91da9458ab866e6fdfc5fa1d17c0db9383cb3e964}; and 982,000 Twitter likes, a boost of 3,239{6004a87074b6c622dc8235a91da9458ab866e6fdfc5fa1d17c0db9383cb3e964}.
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In addition, Dan Levy (who took home Emmys for writing, directing and acting that night) entered the Top Actors list for the first time. His social media metrics included 1.8 million Instagram favourites and 1.3 million Twitter likes, plus 98,000 new Instagram followers and 83,000 new Twitter followers. Other actors on the list dated September 30 include Dwayne Johnson, Viola Davis, Jennifer Aniston and Henry Cavill.
Though Schitt's Creek had been on the air for six seasons, it was only during its final season that it racked up a whopping 15 Emmy nominations (earning four nods but no wins in its prior season). Its 9 Emmy wins this year make it the only comedy to ever have taken home so many statuettes in a single season. The 2020 awards ceremony also marked the first time in Emmys history that one show swept all four acting categories—Annie Murphy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy and Eugene Levy all took home awards for their portrayal of the iconic Roses.
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Following their Emmys sweep earlier this month, Schitt’s Creek shot to the top of global social media charts. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Canadian show reached No. 1 on its Social Climbers chart, a weekly list ranking the most popular TV personalities and shows on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
The chart’s methodology “blends engagement to entities’ social media accounts along with weekly additions of followers/subscribers,” and is based on global data provided by social media analytics company MVP. For the first time ever, Schitt’s Creek snagged the top spot in THR’s Top Scripted list, recording gains in all social metrics this past week. It received 3.4 million Instagram favourites, up 3,781{6004a87074b6c622dc8235a91da9458ab866e6fdfc5fa1d17c0db9383cb3e964}; and 982,000 Twitter likes, a boost of 3,239{6004a87074b6c622dc8235a91da9458ab866e6fdfc5fa1d17c0db9383cb3e964}.
In addition, Dan Levy (who took home
![](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://fashionmagazine.com/wellness/essential-oils-canada-diffuser/&title=Essential Oils From Canadian Brands to Stock Up On This Fall&picture=https://cdn.fashionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/iStock-1134054641-800x533.jpg&description=As we make our way into fall and start spending more time indoors, it's more important than ever to create as relaxing a home environment as possible. Fragrance plays a key role in that, so read on for our roundup of essential oils sourced and bottled right here in Canada that would make a welcome addition to any home this season. In addition to creating a cozy environment, certain scents of essential oils such as lavender are often associated with relieving stress and anxiety, promoting restful sleep and more.
Vitruvi
Founded by siblings who grew up in a small seaside community on Vancouver Island, Vitruvi is known for its chic stone diffuser and array of wellness-focused essential oils. Users can choose from fragrances like grapefruit, eucalyptus and bergamot, as well as blends developed for certain targets like quiet, sleep and boost. The brand's latest limited edition offering—a Home Refresh Kit—contains four scents that promise to make your space feel "light and bright": fortifying Basil, grassy Citronella, spicy Ginger and invigorating Spearmint.
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Saje
In addition to a range of sculptural diffusers in soothing neutrals, this Vancouver company offers a series of essential oil blends based on target mood and objective: Pick-Me-Up, Happy Home, Good Health, Sweet Dreams and more. Their individual fragrances include scents like frankincense, patchouli, cinnamon and peppermint.
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Lohn
This Toronto-based candle company recently launched a range of all-natural essential oils inspired by a coast-to-coast journey across North America. Drawing from nature’s purest botanical offerings, they created "essential oil blends that soothe, rejuvenate, and renew." Fragrance options include Nord, which contains essential oils of balsam fir, black spruce, cedar leaf, pine needle and fennel; Este, which is chamomile, grapefruit, lavender, patchouli and petitgrain; and Este, with bergamot, black pepper, clary sage, rosemary and vetiver. The brand also offers a pebble diffuser made with bisque-fired stoneware, on to which 5-10 drops of the oil can be added.
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Rocky Mountain Co.
This Canmore, AB-based company’s focus is handcrafting 100{6004a87074b6c622dc8235a91da9458ab866e6fdfc5fa1d17c0db9383cb3e964} natural products made with simple ingredients. Their essential oil collection contains blends like Deep Sleep, a warm aroma of sandalwood mixed with floral notes of French lavender and ylang-ylang, and Vitality, a mix of cardamom, coriander, black pepper, rosemary and peppermint.
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Woodlot
Natural brand Woodlot offers unique blends like Cinder (vetiver, sweet orange and cinnamon essential oils), Wildwoods (fir, balsam, and clove essential oils) and Flora (lavender, cedar, bergamot and patchouli). In addition, the Vancouver-based brand offers pre-packaged sets such as the Enlightened Yogi Wellness Bundle, Amour Essential Oil Trio and Rest & Recovery Wellness Bundle.
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Fern & Petal
This BC company prides itself on its 100{6004a87074b6c622dc8235a91da9458ab866e6fdfc5fa1d17c0db9383cb3e964} clean products, with zero synthetic dyes, fragrances or preservatives. Its vast collection of essential oils includes ginger, lemongrass, neroli, geranium, vetiver and more. Bonus: with every purchase, they donate $1 to plant a tree in Canada.
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La Maison Simons
In addition to carrying other brands, Quebec retailer Simons also sells its own in-house range of essential oil blends, which includes Refreshing Breeze (sweet almond, bergamot, peppermint, grape seed, eucalyptus and orange essential oils), Northern Forest (cypress essential oil) and classic scents like lavender and grapefruit.
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![](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://fashionmagazine.com/style/capsule-tomo-koizumi-emilio-pucci/&title=Tomo Koizumi’s Capsule Collection for Emilio Pucci Has Been Revealed&picture=https://cdn.fashionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/382-e1601124136930-800x455.jpg&description="I really wanted to create a fantasy side to fashion, which people really need now," says Tokyo-based creative Tomo Koizumi shortly before his capsule collection for the Italian house of Emilio Pucci was unveiled this morning. Although Koizumi was experiencing jet lag–he’d flown into Milan just a day earlier–you’d never know from his affable, laid-back manner that he was about to debut a collection that contributes to the oeuvre of such an important brand.
The over seventy-year-old house of Pucci, best known for its wild print work that was a signature style of the free-spirited ‘60s, approached Koizumi to collaborate after he was named a finalist for this year’s LVMH Prize. (Instead of there being a winner this year, he and the seven other finalists received allocated funds from the total prize amount to assist in guiding their businesses through the COVID-19 crisis.)
Photography courtesy of Emilio Pucci.
“I always dreamed about working with a house that has great archives–I was really happy and excited when I got their email. It’s like one of my biggest dreams came true," says Koizumi, whose joyful work gained much adoration after being discovered by super stylist Katie Grand, and was subsequently shown at Marc Jacobs’ Madison Avenue boutique during New York Fashion Week in 2019.
Koizumi’s designs, which boast an eclectic sense of colour and feature a ruffle-making technique that gives them an undeniably playful silhouette, drew inspiration from the Pucci Spring 2021 collection's palette that includes shades of pink, orange, and yellow, and is anchored by stark white. He also found influence in the swirling Vetrate print from the house’s archives. “I was already familiar with their work, even before they contacted me,” notes Koizumi, adding that he collects archival Pucci items such as scarves and business card cases, and has a Taschen tome that explores its rich history of fashion innovation and boisterous motifs.
“Collaborations are so important, and this Emilio Pucci experience taught me so much because it has been a dialogue between [our] two worlds,” says Koizumi when asked why we’ve see so many novel partnerships within the industry over the past few years. “I had never worked with prints before, so I decided to recreate a sort of a print into [my] designs for this capsule collection; visually it looks like a print, but it’s actually just an effect that we created with a ruffle [technique].”
Photography courtesy of Emilio Pucci.
The result of this experimentation is an 11-piece collection filled with the unexpected silhouettes that have become Koizumi’s signature, in both solid and multi-hued iterations and done in fine organza; accessories and a t-shirt are also included in the mix.
“I really love to see fashion, not just clothes,” says Koizumi of how he approaches his design work, highlighting how uniqueness and meaning is something he longs to see in the fashion landscape, and that his own brand is focused on custom creations right now.
And he says that collaborating with Pucci, particularly during the last few months, has instilled a sense of purpose in his work. “This crisis pushed me harder to stay creative,” he says. “And this collaboration made me believe in myself. [We] tried really hard to make a beautiful masterpiece together.”
See Koizumi's Pucci capsule–as well as the rest of its Spring 2021 collection–in this dreamily escapist video.
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 for a 20-minute long conversation. They crowdsourced questions from across the world, which touched on a range of subjects including why they wanted to work together ("I think we've always been very interested in each other's work," said Simons), how it was to work with another designer ("It is easier, you can share more than you used to share.. and it's more interesting," Miuccia noted), whether anything is 'new' anymore ("I think fashion in general always hopes for the new and every designer wants to be new but I think when you are in it for a long time, it's important to be able to refresh your own body of work," Simons offered adding that the new generation are the ones who will bring the new ideas), if they are doing subtraction or addition ("Both" was the shared answer), what they drink in the morning (coffee for Raf, hot water for Miuccia), as well as what "Prada-ness" means to them, advice for aspiring fashion designers, personal uniforms and more.
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![](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://fashionmagazine.com/wellness/identity/bahia-watson-actress-handmaids-tale/&title=My Story: Actress Bahia Watson on <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>, BIPOC Representation and More&picture=https://cdn.fashionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MyStory_Bahia-800x500.jpg&description="The stage is the actor's domain," Bahia Watson was once told by an acting teacher, and the Winnipeg-born actress decided to make it her home, playing roles like Queen Elizabeth I in Kate Hennig's The Virgin Trial and Masha in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull for audiences in Stratford and Toronto. Of late, you're more likely to spot her on screen. Watson just began filming her fourth season playing Brianna on the Emmy-winning series The Handmaid's Tale, and also recently appeared on several episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Last week, The Archivists—a short film she co-starred in with Noah Reid about a dystopian world in which art and music are illegal—premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
We caught up with the actress to hear about her various screen roles, the need for greater diversity behind the scenes in the entertainment industry, and more.
On how she got her start as an actress...
I kind of stumbled into acting. I'd grown up doing dance and choir singing in Winnipeg, and when they started shooting films there and began casting for extras, I just decided to go. I was probably 16 and didn't know anything about the film industry at all. But I started going on auditions and took some acting classes, and realized I really enjoyed the challenge of acting and how personal it was. I moved to Toronto to work as an actor and kind of stumbled into theatre. I ended up working with this one teacher who said 'you learn to act on the stage, that is the actor's domain' so I was really encouraged to do that. Once I got that adrenaline rush of being on the stage, I pursued it. I also write and create my own shows for the stage as a playwright.
On her short film The Archivists...
A lot of the projects I end up working on are kind of futuristic and dystopian and they all paint a very different picture of what the future might look like. But the story [about art being made illegal] is definitely not out of the realm of possibility. I remember in 2012 when music was banned in Mali. They have beautiful musicians and music but because of the political situation, music was banned there for a period of time. So it is a real thing that happens and it's a scary thing. I wouldn't say the film is a cautionary tale but it does make us think about governing and what it's capable of in terms of limiting our access to the arts. Also, the role of music in the film was interesting to me. I write my own music so I was interested in having the chance to bring that part of myself into my work as an actor.
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On the themes she's drawn to as a playwright...
I'm interested in identity. One of the projects I worked on with a friend, Liza Paul, was all about Caribbean identity and womanhood and sexuality. My mom and my mom's side is from Guyana and my sister was born there too. So with my own solo projects, there's a lot about being a Black woman and identity and nuance. I'm always looking to make space for marginalized bodies to be understood as nuanced individuals.
On what needs to change in the entertainment industry...
The biggest changes will happen when inclusion happens in the writers room, and among the directors and the producers. It's easy to just add colour to the actors and what's shown on screen, but I think the biggest space for growth would be behind the camera or offstage... all the way to agents, managers, all that stuff that you don't see, that's where a lot of the power lies and the decisions are made.
On the problem with tokenism...
Even on crews on set, all of those arenas are very white. There needs to be more of everybody else. If there's just one or two people, you get locked into your identity. You have to be a representative of your identity and you don't get to just be a human being. Because there aren't as many Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour in these spaces, there's a lot of burden on the people that are there to do a lot with their work, to solve a lot of problems, and to speak for a larger community. My mom's Black, my dad's white, I grew up in Winnipeg in the Prairies... that's a very specific experience, very different than if you're Jamaican and grew up in downtown Toronto.
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On being typecast as an actor...
Earlier on in my career I definitely did get [stereotypical] audition requests. The team I work with now filters out a lot of those things but they're still there. One of my projects, this play I wrote called Shaniqua in Abstraction, started in response to being asked to audition for this character of 'Shaniqua from the hood.' That was the first time I said no to an audition and it really fuelled my writing because I felt that that was a way that I could create characters and language that I could connect with. There's still a lot of biases that exist. I think that there's a lot of well meaning people who see Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour as fundamentally different kinds of humans or something. I think there's work to be done there.
On her on-set experiences as someone with textured hair...
I always felt like I had to do my own hair because I just have a general distrust of most people, like 'oh they're not going to know how to do it or they'll be overwhelmed unless I do all these things to prepare my big hair and make it easier.' That's been my experience across the board in any show, theatre and everything. Every so often you find someone who gets it and is not afraid of your hair and it's like 'this is amazing, I can just come in here like these other girls and just have my hair done?' It's unfair. And the increased voicing of that is important. Now people can't act like it's not happening. It shows how important how all the [Black Lives Matter] protests are because they're pushing things in all these little ways. All the little ways in which we're diminished or othered or excluded.
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On the surge of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020...
It's been an intense time. I've had some difficult conversations with people. I've also been inspired by some people and their willingness to step in to the arena of the race problem in our society for the first time and, however imperfectly, start to do the work. It made me step back and reexamine a lot of my relationships to power—the times when I was giving up my power and leaving parts of myself behind, brushing off certain things and not letting the microaggressions bother me. So it was really stressful but strangely empowering, that collective voicing of everyone's pain.
On one of the shows I work on, The Handmaid's Tale, the lead started an email thread amongst the main cast and started the conversation about how things could be better on set and why our crew was lacking diversity. We discussed what the barriers were and what kind of mentorship opportunities might facilitate a more equitable environment that looks like the world around us. It was nice to talk about the actual world we're in outside of just our show. Those kinds of conversations give me hope.
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