Recently Vancouver designer Jacqueline Conoir unveiled her Spring/Summer 2012 collection at, what I assume was, a fantastic runway show in her new 9,000 square foot showroom (I wasn't able to attend). But today I'm not interested in thinking ahead to spring. I want to think about fall/winter, and some great dresses. Rozemerie Cuevas has been [...]
Menswear is creeping back into our wardrobes for this fall. It will be interesting to see how that mixes with the continued lady like trend. Hopefully it doesn't come off like a scene from Victor Victoria (which is one of my favourite movies and if you haven't seen it download it on netflix TODAY. Julie [...]
Spring finally seems to have arrived - well until tomorrow when it changes its mind. No matter what the weather man decides, the magazines and blogs are all talking about what is hot for spring. Frankly almost everything seems to be in this year. And many of them seem to overlap each other. But here [...]
One of the good things about the fashion seasons is you can see what is going to be on trend for fall before you start buying your spring clothes. It lets you know which silhouettes are going to be around for a while - well at least 2 seasons. I'll leave the many downsides to the [...]
I haven't done an eco-Wednesday post for a while. So it seemed a good time to highlight another great designer from Vancouver Eco Fashion Week (EFW). Dahlia Drive is interesting to me on two accounts. A very pretty femine line of upcycled designs. A story of career re- invention after 40... This post is longer than usual, but [...]
I was only able to attend one night of the Vancouver Eco Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011 shows. But I was excited that the evening included one of my favourite local designers Margarita Angelatos. Margarita designs two lines Red Jade and Peridot Kiss. And once again she didn't disappoint. The Red Jade's Fall Winter 2011 line was [...]
This fall Vancouver Fashion Week was the same week as the Women in Leadership Foundation gala, so I was only able to attend one night. I picked opening night with Jacqueline Conoir, Valerio Moda, Michel Tudour and Patricia Fieldwalker. Jacqueline Conoir opened her show with some gorgeous black and camel jersey outfits. They had those unique JC details, [...]
First off I realize that this is Thursday, but I was only able to post part 1 of my Eco Wednesday post yesterday. So here is the late Part 2 on Designer Baby Steinberg. As with Sarah Stevenson, this was her first LG Fashion Week show. The show's theme was Salvage - reclaim. repurpose. refresh. [...]
Sometime timing is a bitch and sometimes it just works out. In my 48 hours in Toronto last week I was able to catch 2 new designers, who each take their own unique approaches to producing sustainable fashion. Today I'll feature Sarah Stevenson and tomorrow Baby Steinberg. Sarah Stevenson To set the stage for Sarah's first collection [...]
I love Joe Fresh. It reminds me of the good old days of Gap classics. And their show at LG Fashion Week was a HOT ticket. It was crazy crowded. But somehow that just made the show more exciting. The show started with a video of what looked like a 1950s Italian vacation - pretty, [...]
