Canada’s First Lady Creates Style Waves

TORONTO — Ever since Justin Trudeau became Canada’s 23rd prime minister in late 2015, he and his Rapunzel-haired wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, have made ho-hum Canada seem, well, kind of cool to the rest of the world. “For years people have thought of Canada as that ‘nice’ neighbor living north of the U.S. But suddenly this country has shed its conservative persona and become a hip, creative place to be. That shift in the public’ perception has everything to do with this young power couple,” according to Canadian designer Lucian Matis. Matis felt the true impact of Canada’s newest style icons first hand. In March 2016, the Toronto-based fashion designer was himself sitting in a meeting with a client when his phone began pinging and ringing. “Naturally I thought some emergency had happened with my family so I rushed out of the room to learn what was going on,” he recalled. Instead, it was a pivotal moment in his 10-year-career as he discovered a slew of images capturing the 42-year-old Grégoire-Trudeau in his red day dress embellished with orchids, which she wore as she joined her husband on a state visit to Washington. Wearing Lucian Matis to the state dinner the White House in Washington, D.C.  Shawn Thew/Epa/REX/Shutterstock “The

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