Online impossibles retailer Bubble Bean Boutique knows just the must-have item of clothing youre looking for and theyve made it easier to get it. The founder, Maggie Ma, landed in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»more than a decade ago and quickly found herself surrounded by fashion. My mom always had a great sense of style, and since I was in my early teens, she would take me shopping for hours and hours and I wore a lot of her pass me downs in my high school years, Ma explained. I find that a lot of fashion lovers tend to end up designing, modelling, collaborating in some way, but Im the kind of fashion lover who is just purely attracted to the product.
Bubble Bean Boutique was launched in August 2011 but the idea of an international-brand online boutique in Canada was planted back in 2005. Tired of expensive shipping fees, customs fees, higher Canadian retail prices, and that coveted item not being able to cross the border, Ma decided to bring brands from around to world to Canada, while doing her best to maintain the original local prices and charging cheap-to-free shipping. The online store carries talking-point labels like J Brand Jeans, One Teaspoon (pictured on model Alessandra Ambrosio, supplied photo), Winter Kate by Nicole Richie, For Love and Lemons, Finders Keepers, LnA, Pencey Standard and more. ()
