FASHION Diaries
FASHION goes to the shows
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Check out our behind-the-scenes blog from the Spring 2009 international runways.
Our FASHION editors are going to New York, Milan, London and Paris to get the first look at Spring 2009. Check out the behind-the-scenes scoop, runway photos, reviews and more.
October 2008 Archive
Toronto: Janet Hill, Eugenia and Nada Yousif
Posted on October 28, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett
At the Janet Hill show Friday, Ryerson fashion students rushed to fill the front row seats (likely vacated by too-tired journalists), self-consciously snapping photos of each other and wide-eyeing the cluster of real photogs at the end of the runway.
Continue...Toronto: Denis Gagnon
Posted on October 27, 2008 by scasselman
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By Sarah Casselman
The final day at the tents was an air kissing, Peroni-sipping good time. Yours truly spent time in the sponsor lounge talking accessories (Hermès H bangles) and lingerie (think naughty and nice) with the Agent Provocateur PR rep, Elyn. Despite the long week, I felt energized and could feel the electricity in the air for the long awaited Denis Gagnon spring collection.
Continue...Mellinda-Mae Harlingten, Lucian Matis, Afshin Feiz
Posted on October 27, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Vancouver’s Mellinda-Mae Harlingten just showed her sixth season of cute ultra-basics, so someone must be buying them. They’re certainly wearable.
Continue...League of Lovers, Evan & Dean and more
Posted on October 24, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett
At League of Lovers and Thieves, a collaborative interplay between Toronto designers Sonja Den Elzen (Thieves) and Dana Kiyoko Takeda (League of Lovers), hearts were stolen with ease and grace.
Continue...Toronto: Morales and Rudsak
Posted on October 24, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Casselman
This season, everything is coming up roses for designer Renata Morales who sent models down the runway in an array of ethereal, candyfloss frocks.
Continue...Carlie Wong, Zoran Dobric, Evan Biddell and more
Posted on October 23, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Fifteen minutes late is no longer fashionable. This I learned the hard way, arriving to Carlie Wong’s sophomore outing just in time for her standing O. It wasn’t hard to see where that came from, once we caught up with runway footage of the “Glamourous Gangster” collection.
Continue...Toronto: Thien Le, Andy Thê-Anh, Joe Fresh Style
Posted on October 23, 2008 by scasselman
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By Sarah Casselman
Today at the tents people are talking about:
- The Toronto Star article about FDCC prez Robin Kay’s rather, er, foggy moment
- Sore feet
- The K-Swiss shoes in the Evan Biddel gift bag
- Which after party to hit (The answer? Joe Fresh Style at Fashion House)
On with the shows...
Continue...Jason Meyers, Karamea, Aqua di Lara and Nada
Posted on October 22, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Let's start at the end: when Jason Meyers closed out his Spring 2009 collection with a wedding dress in bright white silk the rest of the show suddenly made sense.
Continue...Toronto: Joeffer Caoc, Bustle and David Dixon
Posted on October 22, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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Spotted: Editors looking chic despite the cold wicked wind of the west: lots of fur, chunky knits, coloured ribbed tights, croc-print boots, trenchcoats, skinny jeans tucked into boots, bejewelled flats and elbow-length leather gloves.
Now, on to the shows...
Continue...Toronto: Alfred Sung, Pink Tartan and Mango
Posted on October 21, 2008 by scasselman
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By Sarah Casselman
Alfred Sung’s bridal collection officially kicked off L’Oréal Fashion Week at the Nathan Phillips Square tents. Models walked down the aisle, er, runway, swathed in countless variations of white gowns. Tons of tulle, delicate lace, light-as-air chiffon, strings of pearls and rhinestones that shimmered like fireflies in an evening sky.
Continue...Toronto: Desperately Different
Posted on October 20, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Opening the new-this-season Studio at L’Oréal Fashion Week—an intimate space to showcase up-and-coming designers—Katya Revenko presented the Spring 2009 installment of her blossoming brand, Desperately Different.
Continue...Toronto: Greta Constantine
Posted on October 20, 2008 by scasselman
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By Sarah Casselman
The Greta Constantine Spring 2009 show brought a packed house to Circa nightclub for a glimpse of the duo's gorge, goddess-inspired gowns. The beefcake male models (think Speedos and less than one percent body fat) are just the icing on this no-cal cake.
Continue...Paris: October 5
Posted on October 6, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
By Rebecca Voight
Wow, it’s Sunday and it’s almost time to say ‘That’s all folks!’
Marc Jacobs had Edith Piaf singing her heart out for one of the best Louis Vuitton collections ever. The mood was titi Parisienne and the models with poodle dos did have what the French call “du chien.” But by the end of the show it was clear Jacobs had set Parisian cheeky chic to an African beat.
Continue...Paris: October 4
Posted on October 6, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
By Rebecca Voight
Paris is noisy, but Australian designer Martin Grant is so calm, cool and collected you might miss him. This is a man who knows where a woman’s waist is and he manages to highlight it in almost every silky dress.
Continue...Paris: October 3
Posted on October 6, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
By Rebecca Voight
Requiem’s design duo, Italian Rafaele Boriello and French/English Julien Desselle, are, along with Christophe Decarnin at Balmain and Giambattista Valli, Paris’s next big things. Inspired by christening dresses and Truman Capote’s 1966 Black and White Ball—in other words couture and dressy baby clothes—the show was full of desirables. Requiem’s elegant little dresses, especially the first one they showed featuring ruffles, mini pleats and puffy sleeves in white with a trompe l’oeil black vest, has just the right amount of delicacy.
Continue...Paris: October 2
Posted on October 5, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
By Rebecca Voight
Thursday began with Stella McCartney, and she has fantastic friends. The artists Dinos and Jake Chapman painted a bright collage of children and animals as the backdrop for her show. She also has three young children. I mention that because she doesn’t seem to be trailing nannies 24/7 and you have to wonder how she does it.
Continue...Paris: October 1
Posted on October 2, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
By Rebecca Voight
Pixelated prints, cinched waists and thigh high skirts are de rigueur in Paris for spring. Say what you will about morosity dictating a more sombre stance, fashion is marching to its own saucy beat.
Continue...Paris: September 30
Posted on October 1, 2008 by FASHIONMagazineFashion
By Rebecca Voight
Who needs colors when you have great lighting? At Nicolas Ghesquière’s futuristic show for Balenciaga, fabrics changed color as they were hit by overhead light beams. The shimmering collection of sequin tube dresses, metallic fringe and tiers of iridescent, crinkled ribbons sewn together for a bubbly effect, had a chic Barbarella quality in simple shifts with space-uniform seaming and drop-waist tank dresses. The glitter factor was balanced by narrow, matte trousers with intricate insets in an intriguing mix of fabrics. And Ghesquière has seen the future of the handbag as well. Balenciaga’s square clutches in shiny croc and lizard spell the end of the big, messy bag.
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