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Andrej Pejic: Our cover shoot, interview, and behind the scenes video with the androgynous star

By FASHION Staff | January 3rd, 2012 | 1:30 pm

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FASHION Magazine | February 2012 | Andrej Pejic

Photographed by MOO. Styled by George Antonopoulos.

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He’s no lady. Boy wonder Andrej Pejic brings his dry wit and supermodel moves to the top Canadian designs for spring.

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100 photos of the top 10 trends from the runway and the street at Toronto Fashion Week

By Randi Bergman | October 27th, 2011 | 12:00 pm

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100 photos of the top 10 trends from the runway and the street at Toronto Fashion Week

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani and Lewis Mirrett

From the sporty styles spotted at Joe Fresh, Thomas Tait, and Amanda Lew Kee on the runway, to the furry vests and ombred hair already on the rise from outside the tents, Toronto Fashion Week was one fabulous trend flurry. Naturally, many of the top trends from the international shows made their comeback, including brights, must-have accessories, and vibrant prints. Get clicking and planning for next spring. Your shopping list should be at least 100 pages long.

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View by trend: 1. DRAPE DE CHINE | 2. FURRY FRIENDS | 3. GYM CLASS | 4. HAIR APPARENT | 5. IT ACCESSORIES | 6. LIGHT BRIGHT | 7. PRINTED MATTER | 8. ROUGH ‘N TUMBLE | 9. SECRET GARDEN | 10. SWINGIN’ SIXTIES

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TFW dairy: Micalla brings glitz, glamour, and Swarovski

By FASHION Staff | October 25th, 2011 | 3:30 pm

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Micalla Spring 2012

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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By Jessica Borchiver

For her Spring 2012 jewellery collection show, Micalla designer Camilla Jorgensen brought on the glitz and glamour. The larger-than-life pieces sparkled with Swarovski crystals, which had obvious undertones of: “Look at me!” The oversized, chunky, and bedazzling pieces may not be your everyday jewellery, yet the models could have easily persuaded us otherwise. However, there was one notable concern—I had to constantly remind myself that these pieces were designed for spring, not for winter. A heavy necklace embellished with frost-like crystals seemed fit for a snow queen, and the lack of bright colours left me confused. These winterized pieces seemed better suited for women accessorizing for the Christmas holidays or a New Year’s bash.
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Fashion » At the shows

TFW diary: Neo-Teenflo stylings at Judith & Charles

By Laura Kathleen Maize | October 25th, 2011 | 1:30 pm

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Judith & Charles Spring 2012

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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In its current incarnation as Judith & Charles, well-known Canadian contemporary brand Teenflo is looking good. Shown in presentation form, the Spring 2012 collection certainly got the eye-to-eye lookover, though it would have been nice to see the outfits in motion. I overheard more than one “I’d like to see the clothes move.”

The mostly neutral-hued collection used classic shapes—blazers, shift dresses, cardigans, boat-neck tops, and even a jumpsuit thrown in for good measure—to fill the mannequin-lined runway, and the murmurs from the crowd were pleased. This collection will certainly sell very well—the black semi-military-inspired jumpsuit was calling to me—but, as we’ve come to expect from this line, the items won’t exactly turn heads.

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Fashion » At the shows

TFW diary: Adrian Wu’s overwrought LG Fashion Week debut fails to impress

By FASHION Staff | October 25th, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Adrian Wu Spring 2012

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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By Leah Semple

Presented to an at-capacity studio and accompanied by none other than a string quartet, the LG debut show of 21-year-old designer Adrian Wu started promisingly. By the first look out, however, the collection had already failed to impress. (That look being entitled “Natural Beauty,” or, in simpler terms, a hairy-legged man in a short lace shift dress and Lady Gaga–style facial orbit.) In looks titled “orgasm” and “blue balls,” tulle-wrapped IKEA paper lanterns overpowered the designs, protruding off of models in shapes suggestive of breasts and other bodily lumps ‘n’ bumps. While the gowns themselves were quite striking in a palette of muted colours and constructed to Wu’s signature voluminous style, they were not the focus of the audience, and apparently not that of Wu’s either. On more than a few pieces, faulty zippers and rogue hem threads stuck out like sore sartorial thumbs.
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Backstage beauty: We’re charmed by the simple, just-out-of-bed style at Denis Gagnon

By Paige Dzenis | October 24th, 2011 | 5:00 pm

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Photo by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Keeping on trend with spring’s no-makeup natural aesthetic, the look at Denis Gagnon was intended to be as basic as possible. “He said to me, ‘I want [the models] to look like they just got out of bed,’” reported Eric Del Monaco, L’Oreal Paris’s official hair artist and colourist, about Gagnon’s direction for hair. “Because the clothes already have a lot of things going on, we didn’t want [the hair] to get mixed up.” The result was a so-simple-it-hurts style: Del Monaco applied a touch of Studio Line Architect Wax, roughed up the hair a little bit, and then pulled it all to one side in a loose folded half-bun with—quelle horreur!—the elastic showing.
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Fashion » At the shows

TFW diary: Did David Dixon deliver for Spring 2012?

By Caitlan Moneta | October 24th, 2011 | 4:00 pm

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David Dixon Spring 2012

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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Having an end-of-week time slot on the LG Fashion Week calendar is a good thing and a bad thing. Good because by this point, we’ve all honed our lenses to focus on important trends and notable details, but bad too, because the week’s shiny lustre has mostly worn off, and having seen a week’s worth of summer wares, we’re looking for newness to keep our sensory-overload interest alive. Did David Dixon deliver? Sort of. Staying true to his design sensibility, he showed a black, white, and lemon-curd yellow collection that was heavy on the springtime imagery—fluttery flower appliques, silver paisley lamé, and butterfly prints. While the stiff ‘50s cocktail dresses didn’t look particularly new, it was the seamed jersey dresses (the floor-length ones in particular) that looked most modern, and gave a defined body shape without veering into tricky body-con territory.
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TFW diary: Baby Steinberg’s vision was clear, but her execution faltered

By FASHION Staff | October 24th, 2011 | 3:00 pm

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Baby Steinberg Spring 2012

Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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By Jessica Borchiver

I have to commend designer Baby Steinberg on her unique portrayal of Spring 2012. It’s not often we see clothes made out of remnants of old fabrics and reprocessed materials. Her vision to create “something from nothing” is creative, however, when boundaries are pushed too far, there often comes a downside. Rather than looking like a runway collection, Steinberg’s execution felt like an episode of Project Runway, in which contestants are challenged to create clothing from scraps. Looks such as an unzipped skirt with a cropped fringe black and white top came off too sloppy, and a long black woven one-shoulder dress proved to be too difficult for a model to walk in. I cringed at times, just hoping these pieces wouldn’t rip apart at the seams, especially a stencil-cut top made of tissue paper. More like art pieces than couture, this collection is hardly practical, except for, maybe, the skin-tight knitted red mini dress with pink and white roses.
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