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Halifax: Musicians take the stage at Off the Cuff, Week 4

Nadine LaRoche — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:21:22 +0000

Challenged to dress a local musician for the stage, the four remaining Off the Cuff competitors were back with new work on on August 2. Heather Rappard dressed her musician, a harpist, in a floor-length midnight blue gown–but was again warned by judges to step up her technical game. Bree Mackin, paired with Mary Stewart, [...]

Halifax: Off the Cuff Week 3–The designers tackle avant-garde outerwear

Nadine LaRoche — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:15:50 +0000

Last Sunday’s challenge in Halifax’s Off the Cuff, a fashion competition and runway show presented by Argyle Fine Art gallery, couldn’t have been any more inappropriate. The designers were assigned the task of making a garment that was inspired by Halifax’s tempestuous weather and that could be transformed in some way. And so, on one [...]

Halifax: NSCAD’s Wearable Art block party

Nadine LaRoche — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:34:55 +0000

I’ve got five words to say about NSCAD University’s 19th annual Wearable Art Show: thank god it was good. Taking a turn from the bar venues WAS has occupied as of late, organizers Sarah Roy and Bree Mackin brought the AIDS Coalition of NS fundraiser to the streets, piling the event’s hundreds of guests under [...]