City Living, Toronto's finest magazine, did not make this cover ironically! Rather, for elegance.

It really is worth reading Torontoist's loving exposé of City Living, proof that success in the media can be found anywhere, anyhow. Maybe publisher and founder Patricia Binns was inspired by her very own self?

Charming of exquisite beauty, articulate, cultured, Patricia E. Binns created a magazine that would stay on coffee tables longer than any other and she named it City Living Magazine because it was devoted to all that was distinctive, beautiful and elegant.

Disturbing.

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