Jason Meyers doesn’t do office. His girls are party girls wrapped up in taffeta, bright colours and big ruffles. Though this collection had its issues (inexpensive-looking fabrics, a ghastly print, shorts that cut into the model’s thighs and some fairly obvious nods to Jil Sander Fall 2009) it was a big step up from the [...]

Canadian-style promoters Gail McInnes and Amanda Brugel set up shop at the Hazelton Hotel during TIFF to outfit celebs in homegrown design. Their just-launched red-carpet rentals service, The Style Box, is aiming to get Canadian-made clothing and jewellery onto high-profile names going to high-profile events. At TIFF, their list of wins was long: Kristin Booth, [...]

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO} 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. It had been a rather electric romp, with ruffled and bow-tied frocks in hot turquoise, daffodil [...]