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ELL COMMS PRESS RELEASE: Folio.YVR Issue 43 Leads with Holborn’s Skyline-Redefining Georgia + Abbott Tower, Chanel, Chaumet & Chan Hon Goh

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This Press Release was originally published via EINPresswire on 09-15-26:

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, September 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine announces the release of Issue 43, led by Holborn’s newly approved Georgia + Abbott development, a 315-metre hotel tower designed by Henriquez Partners Architects under Principal Gregory Henriquez that will stand as the tallest structure in Western Canada. The tower’s diagrid exoskeleton draws from one of British Columbia’s rarest natural formations, and the project introduces 1,783 homes, a year-round public plaza shaped by Indigenous art and cultural programming, and a formal commitment to net-zero operational carbon.

“Georgia + Abbott is not simply a new tower for Vancouver’s skyline,” says Helen Siwak, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Folio.YVR. “It is a signal of how this city, and the Lower Mainland around it, intends to build for the next generation. A project of this scale touches housing, culture, sustainability, and public space all at once, and it will shape how this region is seen for decades to come.”

Joo Kim Tiah, Principal at Holborn, describes the thinking behind the project: “This project began with a belief that a site of this significance presented a rare opportunity to contribute to Vancouver in many different ways. We challenged ourselves to respond to the needs the City has identified — housing, social housing, tourism, childcare, public space, Indigenous cultural representation and downtown revitalization and safety — while creating architecture that could become part of Vancouver’s identity. We are incredibly excited about what this project represents and its potential to make a lasting contribution to Vancouver.”

At Oakridge Park, CHANEL has opened its largest boutique in the city to date, a 750-square-metre space designed by Peter Marino and paired with the House’s formal target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Chaumet’s arrival at Oakridge brings the Joséphine collection to Vancouver for the first time, anchored by a tiara maquette wall built as a tribute to Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais and more than two centuries of documented house history.

Also featured is 91 E 40th Avenue, a five-bedroom, 2,744-square-foot home built in 2022 by Simplicity Homes, with architecture by b Squared Architecture Inc. and interiors by deVise Design. Set among the century-old character homes of a heritage Vancouver neighbourhood, the property is offered by the Sid + Jacqueline Real Estate Group of Oakwyn Realty Ltd.

Chan Hon Goh’s appointment as Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dance rounds out the issue’s real estate and appointments coverage, joining RAD President Dame Darcey Bussell in guiding an institution reaching more than eighty-five countries. A former Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and current General and Artistic Director of Goh Ballet Academy Canada, Goh brings four decades of experience to the role.

Stylist Michelle Addison is profiled following her departure from Holt Renfrew after fifteen years across three of Vancouver’s leading luxury retailers, marking the launch of her independent practice, Michelle Addison Style, spanning personal styling, wardrobe consulting, and creative direction.

Vancouver menswear label Champlain marks its third seasonal release with a fall Estate Collection spanning polos, cardigans, sweaters, and outerwear, now carried in more than seventy retailers across Canada, including Harry Rosen. Founder and Creative Director Jonathan Richard built the collection around British heritage fabrics and a wardrobe suited to both the office and the outdoors.

The issue’s CELEBRATE section spans two Lower Mainland venues: a wedding designed by Liting Chan of Paradise Events Inc. at Swaneset Bay Resort & Country Club, and Granville Island Hotel, recipient of a 2026 Travellers’ Choice Award and a placement on National Geographic’s list of the ten best hotels in Vancouver, whose waterfront setting and ground-floor restaurant, Dockside, serve as a wedding venue in their own right, recognized for an inclusive dining menu and one of the city’s largest waterfront patios.

Feature artist Danny Singer’s work appears on the front cover and throughout the issue. Represented by Gallery Jones, his Main Street Project has spent twenty-five years photographing the full main streets of small prairie towns, each panorama stitched from as many as one hundred and fifty sequential images and held in collections including the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Folio.YVR is published by EcoLuxLuv Communications & Marketing Inc., alongside partner publication Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine. As an independent, digital-first, ad-free publication, Folio.YVR was built to champion West Coast Canada to the world, showcasing the region’s strengths, is a member of Luxury Lifestyle Awards, and a contributor to World Luxury Chamber of Commerce.

ABOUT ECOLUXLUV COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING INC.

EcoLuxLuv Communications & Marketing Inc. is a Vancouver-based independent media and publishing company founded by Helen Siwak, specializing in editorial development, brand storytelling, media brokering, digital distribution strategy, and hybrid digital magazine production. Through its flagship titles — Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine and Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine — ELL Comms delivers narrative-driven content to engaged audiences across Canada and international markets, surpassing 5 million combined reads in 2025.

ELL Comms operates a media brokering division connecting brands and publishers with strategic placement opportunities across print and digital platforms, including a national content partnership with Retail-Insider.com, and both flagship titles licence content to news agencies in Korea and Asia.

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ELL COMMS PRESS RELEASE: Folio.YVR’s Summer CELEBRATE Issue Leads with Luigi Ronchi, Newly Promoted at VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, August 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/  Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine, Canada’s independent ecoluxury lifestyle magazine, announces the release of its Summer edition, themed CELEBRATE, and anchored by a feature on Luigi Ronchi, CFRE, who was promoted to Transformational Giving Advisor at VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation in Vancouver, British Columbia this April.

“This is our CELEBRATE issue, and it belongs to the people who cherish the elevated lifestyle that Vancouver and the surrounding areas afford them. Connection runs through every page, and every name in this issue belongs to someone who chose, deliberately, to build something here, together, with others.” — Helen Siwak, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Folio.YVR

The lead feature traces Luigi Ronchi’s path from organizing swimming competitions in Buenos Aires to guiding some of British Columbia’s most significant philanthropic commitments, culminating this spring in his promotion to Transformational Giving Advisor. A dual citizen who speaks multiple languages, Ronchi began his career in philanthropy at Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, where a friendship with classic car collector Kevin England became the catalyst for the Classic & Contemporary Car Invitational, now an annual West Vancouver fixture. At VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, Ronchi works alongside donors on the rare, defining gifts that shape what the hospital can offer, framing the work not as solicitation but as guidance rooted in listening.

“Fewer donors, bigger gifts, deeper relationships — that is the direction the whole field is moving, whether an organization is ready for it or not. The strongest donor relationships I have built took months, sometimes years, to develop, and they were built on real conversation rather than an agenda.” — Luigi Ronchi, CFRE

Paradise Events Inc. and designer Liting Chan bring two features to this edition: a full editorial on the wedding of Gavin and Wendy at The Vancouver Club’s Georgian Room, staged on the exact date of their tenth anniversary with a design concept honouring classical Chinese blue-and-white porcelain tradition, and a photo editorial of a citrus-bright, Amalfi-inspired terrace created for the Young Elite Vancouver golf tournament.

This edition marks the twentieth wedding anniversary of Phyllis and Shelby Lui, celebrated with family and close friends at their West Vancouver home, and arriving alongside a new chapter for Phyllis as founder of PippyLui Design Studio.

Community and philanthropy continue through coverage of QMUNITY’s inaugural Girls’ Night Out at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, co-hosted by Aleem Kassam and Sid Koshul, which raised two hundred and sixty thousand dollars toward the organization’s new home on Davie Street. The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra’s twenty-third season closing, led by Music Director Ken Hsieh, rounds out the arts and culture coverage.

Folio.YVR’s ongoing luxury travel partnership series with Nadine Paulo, Founder and CEO of The Solo Travel Collection, continues with its second instalment, featuring Costa Rica this time and journeying through the volcanic trails of Rincón de la Vieja to the rainforest calm of Arenal.

On the high jewellery and watchmaking front, this edition covers Global Watch Company’s new Rolex boutique at Oakridge Park in Vancouver, along with Brazilian high jewellery house Art’G’s Cherry Blossom Line, which chose Vancouver as the closing stop of the house’s Western Canadian expedition.

Two marques reworking the luxury automotive category close out this edition: Ferrari’s Luce, the brand’s case for electrified, family-oriented luxury, and Glenfiddich’s BEYOND activations alongside Aston Martin Formula One Team during the Grand Prix du Canada in Montreal.

On the cover and featured throughout this edition is Vancouver-based illustrator Julian Thom, the first illustrator to grace the cover and pages of Folio.YVR. A graduate of OCAD University with a master’s degree from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Thom brings a reportage-heavy illustration style to this edition, drawing on his design work with brands including Aritzia and Hills Dry Goods. His fascination with how people, places, and architecture shape one another runs throughout his contribution.

Folio.YVR is published by EcoLuxLuv Communications & Marketing Inc., alongside partner publication Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine. As an independent, digital-first, ad-free publication, Folio.YVR was built to champion West Coast Canada to the world, showcasing the region’s strengths and the stories often overlooked by mainstream, corporately owned press, while amplifying the province’s most influential voices and enterprises.

ABOUT ECOLUXLUV COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING INC.

EcoLuxLuv Communications & Marketing Inc. is a Vancouver-based independent media and publishing company founded by Helen Siwak. The firm specializes in editorial development, brand storytelling, media brokering, digital distribution strategy, and hybrid digital magazine production. Through its flagship titles — Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine and Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine — ELL Comms delivers narrative-driven content to engaged audiences across Canada and international markets, surpassing 5 million combined reads in 2025.

ELL Comms operates a media brokering division connecting brands and publishers with strategic placement opportunities across print and digital platforms, including a national content partnership with Retail-Insider.com. Both flagship titles licence content to news agencies in Korea and Asia, extending their reach across international markets while maintaining a refined West Coast editorial voice.

The company is committed to elevating independent publishers and entrepreneurs, building long-term media partnerships, and democratizing access to professional publishing infrastructure across Canada and beyond.