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February is Black History Month. Although we at FASHION celebrate diversity all year round, we’d like to take this opportunity to specifically highlight the exceptional talent of Black designers, who still face barriers to entry, marginalization and a lack of representation in the world of fashion. It’s been over a year since protests against policy brutality […]

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Sometimes you’re witnessing history in the making and you don’t even know it. Say, when you’re watching the unexpected pairing of players or teams at a high-stakes sporting event (there were a few notable ones this past weekend, right?). But other times, like with the case of the Pyer Moss haute couture debut on July […]

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After receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just last week, costume designer Ruth E. Carter has yet another reason to celebrate with the release of Coming 2 America on Amazon today. Carter, who’s also the first Black woman to win an Oscar in the costume design category for Black Panther, was brought […]

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Dr. Liza Egbogah, a Toronto-based manual osteopath, fell in love with the flair of Nigerian dressing before she started wearing it herself. “I loved looking through my mom’s old pictures because everyone was wearing traditional wax print dresses,” she remembers. “I’d ask my mother how I could get those kinds of pieces and she’d say, […]

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Inclusion, representation and Black excellence are the cornerstones of celebrated designer George Sully’s newly announced initiative. In collaboration with his own foundation, Black Designers of Canada (BDC), Sully is set to acknowledge the triumphs of 100 Black Canadian designers from coast to coast with the Inaugural Black Designer Award of Excellence. After successfully launching BDC, […]

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In an effort to help a new generation of creatives gain the insights and skills need to thrive in the fashion world, Off-White founder and chief creative director, Virgil Abloh, has launched an online offering called Free-Game. Described as a “resource center for brands in their earliest phases”, the video-driven content boasts advice ranging from […]

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When Kimberly Jenkins, assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Fashion in Toronto, first launched The Fashion and Race Database website in 2017, it was part of a pedagogy the she was crafting to foster a critical understanding of the cultural contexts that she felt were lacking in fashion education. Now, in the midst of […]

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For its 2020 showcase, Fashion Art Toronto is streaming runway shows every Monday and Friday evening through the summer, beginning June 22.

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