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Nicola Formichetti made his Thierry Mugler debut in Paris earlier today to the curated and all-new sounds of Lady Gaga. Watch the video! [V Man] No this isn’t exactly news, but did you know that Cristobal Balenciaga’s first model was his cat? Meow! [Nymag] For those of you who shed tears for when Andy Thê-Anh […]

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News broke yesterday that Montreal designer Andy Thê-Anh‘s four-year-old label is no more. Financial backers CATSIMA pulled the plug on the line, closing the Yorkville boutique in Toronto and turning the Cours Mont Royal location into liquidation centre for the remaining $2.8 million in stock. The sale starts today and is said to be continuing for several months. (The Montreal Mountain Street location closed earlier this fall.) Twenty people will lose their jobs.

Montreal designer Andy Thê-Anh showed his Fall 2010 collection in Toronto on Thursday. Thê-Anh was inspired by tango dancers in Buenos Aires and our beauty editor Lesa Hannah went backstage to see how the beauty team reinterpreted the look for the runway. See the full Andy Thê-Anh Fall 2010 collection. Click the images below to […]

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Last night, a big crowd came out to support Montreal designer Andy Thê-Anh–the front row was filled with all the clients who will pick up pieces from his tango-inspired fall collection at one of Thê-Anh’s two Toronto boutiques. Patricia Gajo caught the collection when it walked in Montreal in February. Read the review here and see the full collection after the jump.

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Andy Thê-Anh’s “cocktail” show last summer at the Marché Bonsecours was a crowded, on-tip toes affair (thank goodness for platform boots). So his recent presentation for Fall 2010 in the airy atrium space of Excentris was a breath of fresh air. An intimate gathering of thirty or so of Montreal’s fashion editors and bloggers loaded up on appies from next door’s Café Méliès and giggled like little girls after a round (or two) of white wine spritzers.

A hometown prelude to the big production in Toronto at the very end of March, the Montreal-born Vietnamese designer greeted guests as they arrived and then proceeded to emcee his own show while slick-haired models strut out one by one.

Toronto’s LG Fashion Week has found a new home. After living in tents at Nathan Phillips Square (a few short blocks from our office), then last season at King and Shaw, the show is moving to an indoor spot with 40-foot ceilings in nearby Liberty Village. FDCC prez Robin Kay told The Toronto Star that the runway will be inside the building, which will also have a tent erected outside.

The FDCC has also released a roughed in schedule with a start date of Sunday, March 28. (The shows close Thursday, April 1.)

This season, Andy Thê-Anh eschewed the runway for a more intimate, presentation-style show.  We slipped past the doormen into a dramatic room featuring wall-to-wall zebra patterned carpeting, oversized chandeliers dripping with crystals and benches upholstered in black faux fur.  The low-lying platform gave way to a parade of sophisticated day wear: stiff, silky, zippered dresses, slim tailored pants and tucked and pleated jackets.  Crisp white was a clever counterpoint to a palette of bright cerulean blue and a paler sky blue.  The quintet of flowing, champagne evening gowns that closed the show are sure to delight Thê-Anh’s loyal following.

Check out the gallery after the jump.

The Marché Bonsecours overflowed with Montreal’s fashion crowd who teetered in high-heels over St-Paul Street’s cobblestones to take in three days of Montreal Fashion Week.

On day one, Andy Thê-Anh’s “cocktail” presentation unraveled more like a schmoozy happy hour social than a spring and summer preview. Latecomers tiptoed to catch glimpses of the central stage that doubled as a mini-runway while P&G Beauty reps (in coral mini-togas) served skincare samples on trays like canapés. Known for his sophistication and architectural details, Thê-Anh’s show sparkled (even from a distance) with various shades and intensities of blue paired with neutral white and black.

It’s 6 o’clock on Wednesday evening and the scene backstage at Andy Thê-Anh is relatively calm. Working to a soundtrack of Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga, the L’Oréal Paris team tends to the lead models as Thê-Anh watches closely.

Packed schedule on the LG roster with some of Toronto’s most well-known labels – Comrags, Andy Thê-Anh, Pink Tartan and Joe Fresh Style.  Time to rev up those fashion batteries and re-gloss those air-kissers…

Comrags [watch our interview] designers Joyce Gunhouse and Judy Cornish delivered a strong Fall 2009 collection.  And if the wool plaids, printed knits and florals didn’t wow you (as if they wouldn’t…) then surely the large bouquets presented to the designers by the Comrags’ kids during their runway bow would have touched your haute little heart.

Montreal designer Andy Thê-Anh does a party ready collection (complete with bejewelled leggings!). View the collection: ANDY THÊ-ANH

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{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}

By Sarah Casselman

Today at the tents people are talking about:

– The Toronto Star article about FDCC prez Robin Kay’s rather, er, foggy moment – Sore feet – The K-Swiss shoes in the Evan Biddel gift bag- Which after party to hit (The answer? Joe Fresh Style at Fashion House)

On with the shows…