Beauty refreshments: 5 ways to revitalize and hydrate your skin this weekend
Kate and Laura Mulleavy on Sequoia trees, Frankenstein and why there are no people on the Rodarte moodboards
Online Store of the Week: This is Not a Mall brings you the best from South & South East Asia without the cultural-mislabels or the price gouging (plus, we’re getting an extra 10% off!)
It’s official: BryanBoy is joining America’s Next Top Model!
Did you know that skinny jeans can cause nerve damage?
All posts under ‘Denis Gagnon’
By Patricia Gajo | May 9th, 2011 | 3:00 pm
Photography by Sebastien Roy
From the opening of his new boutique to his upcoming collaborations, it seems that Montreal titan Denis Gagnon (along with his signature thick black Lanvin frames) is just about everywhere these days. “You certainly are a man with vision, just how strong are those glasses anyway?” I asked him last week at the opening party for his new boutique in Old Montreal. Be it modesty or my seriously awful French, Gagnon just shrugged.
Read more »
By Patricia Gajo | March 25th, 2011 | 1:00 pm
Ssense. Photography by Jane Heller.
Old Montreal is sizzling these days. Whether it’s for cinq-à-sept cocktails, gallery-hopping or moonlit dinners, I often find myself there and invariably my credit card gets a workout.
By Patricia Gajo | February 15th, 2011 | 3:52 pm
Montreal fashion week is strutting an eager new February time slot (sayonara March!) that puts the city’s Semaine de la mode literally at the forefront of fashion ⎯ starting the 2011 fashion cycle ahead of New York. From a packed schedule of shows, presentations and parties, I’ve distilled my top moments. Here are the highlights.
By Patricia Gajo | January 11th, 2011 | 3:07 pm
Denis Gagnon. Photography by Sébastien Roy.
Montreal designer Denis Gagnon (www.denisgagnon.ca) gave FASHION the exclusive inside scoop that he has created the new uniforms at Le Place d’Armes (www.hotelplacedarmes.com), one of Old Montreal’s most stylish boutique hotels.
By Patricia Gajo | November 18th, 2010 | 2:18 pm
When I first received the invite for Travis Taddeo‘s spring and summer show and saw a picture of a noose, two things popped into my head. First, “This is going to be interesting.” Second, “How very Travis.”
The young designer’s show was held last month in Griffintown, a barren albeit “up-and-coming” area. By the time I arrived, all the other usual suspects had already been seated: Eva Friede from the Gazette, a slew of French and English bloggers, as well as Taddeo’s eclectic entourage that included Denis Gagnon, Yso, and Cary Tauben. As I read the designer’s press statement, I learned that Taddeo’s inspiration drew upon “slain celebrities where spirits of tragically erased stars reappear to haunt the designer’s new titillating collection.” That explained the T-shirts printed with River Phoenix’ face – and the noose. I don’t make this stuff up.
Read more »
By Patricia Gajo | November 2nd, 2010 | 2:53 pm
Cult fashion designer Denis Gagnon recently showcased his avant-garde Spring 2011 collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The show was in celebration of spectacular exhibit, Denis Gagnon Show All (until February 13, mbam.qc.ca), which features work from the artist’s 10 years in fashion. FASHION‘s Montreal editor, Patricia Gajo, attended the show with her Flip video camera and spoke to Gagnon about the collection and being the first Quebec designer to have an exhibition at the museum.
View a gallery of the full Denis Gagnon spring collection at Toronto Fashion Week»
By Jennifer Campbell | October 25th, 2010 | 2:12 pm
DENIS GAGNON Spring 2011. Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani
To say that Denis Gagnon‘s Spring show is fringed would be a 100 per cent accurate and yet far too simple description. This is not cowboy fringe. The strands of silk spilled down like a waterfall, were swagged like drapery, or snaked down mesh panels. The opening look featured a pair of pants that looked almost sinewy. In addition to the silk, Gagnon used fine metal chains to form delicate shoulders or an overlay on lace sleeves. For the finale, he made a shimmering dress with bare zip-away shoulders. There were a handful of pieces done in Gagnon’s signature draped and knotted leather that in any other show that week would have been the standout, but here they served as moments of stillness in show that was fully in motion.
By Jennifer Campbell | October 19th, 2010 | 1:52 pm
A look from Jeremy Laing's Spring 2011 collection at the Holt Renfrew Presents show. Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani
It takes a certain amount of guts to co-opt Diana Vreeland’s famous line, “Pink is the navy blue of India.” Holt Renfrew turned that on its ear at last night’s LG Fashion Week opener, casting magenta–their signature shade–to fill that role in Canada. Well it was, at least for the night, when the luxury department store brought nine designers from their stable of homegrown talent to the runway. It was a blockbuster ticket that included five looks each from Jeremy Laing, Lida Baday, Line, Pink Tartan, jacket specialists Smythe, glamour veteran Wayne Clark, Mikhael Kale, menswear label Wings + Horns and Montreal designer Denis Gagnon. With a few of the designers, it was a bit of an appetizer–Pink Tartan and Line show tonight and Gagnon presents on Friday–but the show also served as a crib sheet for some of our country’s brightest fashion lights (and a handy-dandy walking catalogue for Holts’ customers).
See a gallery of looks from last night’s show»
Josh Matlow decides maybe Toronto’s street hockey ban should stand after all
ANNIVERSARY: Youth education program Insight Theatre turns 30 — and celebrates with a gala
One fine photo: Photographed by George Whiteside for FASHION’s Summer 2001 issue
Film noir: Osez le noir et blanc avec les robes et accessoires du moment
