Style Exchange and Little Burgundy have teamed up to create a new shopping experience for consumers in the Montreal area. They were kind enough to bless me with a couple $100 gift certificates to share with you guys for this new partnership. These gift cards can be redeemed at the Little Burgundy / StyleXchange boutiques located at Rockland Centre, Champlain Mall (Brossard) or Place Montréal Trust (that locations opens on August 21) Check below to see how you can win.
HOW TO WIN $100 GIFT CERTIFICATES FROM STYLE EXCHANGE X LITTLE BURGUNDY SHOPS
1. Share my blog & this contest with your followers on twitter
2. Convince them to start following me (twitter.com/marcustroy).
3. Once they’re a follower, tell them to send me an @reply in the following format:
“@marcustroy, I just started following thanks to @your_name_here – Little Burgundy x Style Exchange Contest!”
NOTE: “@your_name_here” should be YOUR twitter name.
EXAMPLE: If your twitter name is @iloveshoes and you convinced @iloveclothes to follow me by showing him my “blog and this contest” you would tell @iloveclothes to send me this @reply to get credit:
“@marcustroy, I just started following thanks to @iloveshoes – Little Burgundy x Style Exchange Contest!”
MAKE SURE THEY SEND AN @REPLY SO I KNOW YOU SENT THEM!
4. Each person you send must have at least 10 followers (to help make sure they’re real twitter profiles).
5. The first couple of people whose name gets credited 15 times gets a $100 gift certificate from Style Exchange x Little Burgundy Shops in Montreal.
Thanks for your help promoting www.marcustroy.com & twitter.com/marcustroy. I appreciate you!
* Both Shops combined carry some of your favorite brands for Men and Women: Converse, Vans, Canada Goose, Diesel, Adidas, Puma, Marc by Marc Jacobs to name a few.
* Learn more about the partnership here
* Contest available to Canadians only
Canadian Footwear retailer Little Burgundy Introduced a new partnership with Canadian fashion retailer StyleExchange.
Beginning in August, select StyleXchange locations in Montreal will feature branded Little Burgundy boutiques, giving shoppers the opportunity to experience two popular fashion retailers within one storefront.
The new boutique launches will take place on August 14th at Rockland Centre and Brossard’s Champlain Mall, and on August 20th at Place Montreal Trust.
Operating within another retailer’s facilities is a new business model for the ALDO GROUP developed to be mutually beneficial and set the tone for future business opportunities. Hosting Little Burgundy’s collection will extend StyleXchange’s retail offerings and generate additional revenues for the apparel chain.
About Little Burgundy
Little Burgundy, a subsidiary of the ALDO GROUP, carries some of your favorite brands for men and women such as Marc by Marc Jacobs, Frye, Vans, Converse Adidas, UGG and Creative Recreation to name a few, Little Burgundy carries over 60 brands, all carefully chosen to represent the best in branded style. Little Burgundy currently operates eight stores in six Canadian cities, including Montreal, Toronto and an upcoming store in Calgary.
About StyleXchange
StyleXchange stores offer an impressive array of denim from the specialists in LA and Italy, including 7 for all mankind, Rock & Republic, True Religion and, of course, the ultimate jean maker, Diesel. The company offers collections from Europe’s strongest fashion houses, including Miss Sixty and Energie, J.Lindeberg and Scotch & Soda and Canada Goose to name a few. StyleXchange currently operates eight stores in five Canadian cities, including Montreal and Toronto.
All this good news is making me want to give away some $100 gift certificates to these 3 new locations!
Check My Life section for contest rules and regulations.
Official Jay-Z Blueprint 3 Tracklisting
This is a very highly anticipated album by GOD HOVA aka Jay-Z, I figured I would throw some questions out there into the world that people may be asking themselves. I don’t even know the answers to some of these questions but I know that people would love to know. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while or even been a fan of wrgmag I always said that Drake reminded me of a young Jay-Z and that he was going to blow 1 day. I even wanted to manage the kid back when I first heard him, because I really thought he was lyrically unbelievable. It is amazing to see that he has landed on the album of my idols Jay-Z.
Mad props Drake!
1. How does a kid from Toronto get himself on a legends album?
2. Do you get yourself on a Jay-Z album by having a good team?
3. Do you think getting yourself on a Jay-Z album is purely about lyrical ability?
4. How does Jay-Z chose which artist are going to end up on his album?
5. How does Drake get himself on a Jay-Z album if he doesn’t even have an album of his own?
6. How does Drake get himself on a Jay-Z album off of 3 mixtapes?
7. So many established rappers have only dreamt of being on a Jay-z album, do you think they will be pissed?
8. Does being on a Jay-Z album elevate Drake to another plateau?
9. Did Drake will all this to happen by prophesying it?
10. How Far gone is drake?
“How is Jay & Dame gon break up, before they meet Drake? I’m sure that it can be resolved I’m just hoping that they make up”
image via rapradar
The folks over at DT89 hit me up for an interview a couple weeks ago and it went a little something like this:
“Blogging ain’t easy but somebody’s got to do it.” – words of Mr. Troy. From visiting great places around the globe, eating gourmet food, spending nights in luxurious hotels in NYC, or just kickin’ it with some Monopoly and Carlberg…Marcus Troy break’s down everything from fashion to culture to ‘females matching his fly’ on his self-titled blog.
89: How long have you been down with the blogging game? What made you want to start?
MT: I started blogging about five years ago. I started out of share passion. I always liked sharing with people or putting people on to new things, so blogging was a natural transition.
89: Your blog mainly incorporates the fashion world, have you always beenso affiliated with fashion and it’s trends?
MT: I started off my career working in retail fashion, so I guess I’’ve always been as you say affiliated with it. I try and pay attentions to what is going on in the world of fashion and trends. It is what keeps me in the loop and what keeps me valuable to some.
89: What brands are included in your favourite outfit?
MT: I always struggle with these type of questions, because I don’t like to stick to one brand. I really like things that are interesting, well designed, functional or just simply dope. My taste changing often as things progress but I would always love brands that have heritage. Some of my favorite brands are Ralph Lauren, Visvim, NSW, Y3 to name a few.
89: If you were to get a shoe deal, which shoe company would it be with and why?
MT: It would have to be a company that understands my vision and has the resources for good R&D so we can do something that hasn’t really been done before. I would love to incorporate fashion with a strong element of function. I’m assuming this shoe deal would be for multiple collections and not just a one time thing. I would need to spend some time in mountains of Tunisia for inspiration.
89: Can you elaborate on fashion in Montreal/Canada?
MT: Montreal has European sensibilities but it also has a progressive street culture. People are pretty much up on things that are happening in the street culture. I just feel sometimes it takes a little longer to translate because most of the communication about fashion, products and new brands happens in English and the majority of the population in Montreal is French. When you travel throughout Canada, that’s when things start to change a bit. The mega cities like Toronto and Vancouver would are very similar to the rest of the mega cities in the world but when you get into smaller towns sometimes they are a couple of seasons behind on what is going on, but you can always find inspiration there.
89: Where in the world is fashion on a another level?
MT: I haven’t been all around the world yet but some places that are very progressive is Japan and Korea.
89: What is your most current advice on today’s trend that you can give our readers?
MT: Don’t worry about being trendy! Not everything that is a trend is a good thing. Being comfortable in what you are wearing is a lot more trendy that anything else.
89: Very well said.
89: Is there any place in the world you havn’t been yet but would like to go?
MT: I would love to visit Africa! I would love to get in tuned with the homeland and experience its culture.
89: Well we hope you can get to visit Africa soon. Thanks for your time Marcus, any last words?
MT:Thanks for speaking with me. Shout out to all my readers from over the world I truly do this for you guys.
The homie Chris over at Life After Midnight wanted to get my top 15 songs on my play-list at the moment. If even when to the trouble of making a download link of my top 15 songs. He also said some really kind words about the kid! Check out his site here.
“For those of you unfamiliar with this weeks Monday Morning Playlist feature – Marcus Troy is a fellow Canadian who bases a lifestyle blog out of Montreal, QC. Marcus spent the past five years honing his skills and fueling his passion for writing and blogging while working on his online magazine project WRG Magazine. Roughly a year ago he started MarcusTroy.com which has become a highly respected blog focusing on everything from gadgets and music to trend hunting and hotel reviews. The vast amount of content provides something for everyone from the hardcore sneakerhead to the couture shopper. Marcus describes the site as “a digital space of lifestyle and fashion journalism” and describes his focus as “main street culture as well as cutting edge and urban sub culture”.
Where he finds time to continually update his site with new and unseen content, I am not sure but he was gracious enough to take time out of blogging to provide us with a very appealing Monday Morning Playlist with a handful of Canadian content”.
1. Drake- Successful
2. Jay-Z- Can I Live?
3. Kanye West- Street Lights
4. Drake- The Presentation
5. Drake- Where to now?
6. Drake- Closer
7. J-Cole-Split you up
8. Daft Punk- Face to Face
9. Robin Thicke-Superman
10. Little Dragon-Twice
11. MGMT-Electric Feel
12. Rochester aka Juice-Ex-Factor
13. Nina Simone-Sinnerman
14. K-OS-4321
15. NNeka-Heartbeat
You can download it here.
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