Canada’s Style Identity Is Finally Emerging 

D’You Know What I Mean? is a column on style and culture where writer Ben Kriz weighs in on taste, trends, and what it all means.

Much like how Canada tends to define its identity, both culturally and politically, by what it isn’t — “We’re not American” — we’ve often described our style the same way. We know we’re not as sharply tailored as the Italians. We don’t do the ultra-minimalism of Scandinavia. We’re not effortlessly nonchalant like the French. Canadian style existed in the space between other...