FASHION Magazine
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Inside JNBY’s pre Toronto Fashion Week party: Models in Miley buns toast the Chinese label’s Canadian debut
Photography by Kayla Rocca Amidst the homegrown talent, one very cool and far away brand will be making its Canadian runway debut next week during World MasterCard Fashion Week in Toronto. JNBY (Just Naturally Be Yourself) is big in Japan…and Thailand and Singapore and France as well as China, where it hails from. A week before its reveal at fashion week (and we’ll save the oohs and aahs till then), JNBY previewed its Spring 2014 collection to an ultra trendy crowd at a pre-fashion week party hosted by The Collections. The stellar clothes were shown alongside a large photo print by Cory VanderPloeg of a model wearing Laura Siegel‘s spring collection..
Regular scenesters like Amina Said, Sarah Magwood, Parris Gordon, Jay Strut and The Collections threesome Dwayne Kennedy, Mel Ashcroft and Brian Richards lined the walls as well as fresh faced models in Miley buns and off duty sweaters. As with any cool kid party, there were plenty of new faces to creep in true Cinderella form. We’d like to crown a new style princess, but we don’t know her name. You! Got the other glass slipper?
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When bikes become art: Toronto gallery Hermann & Audrey pays tribute to the two-wheeler with a stylish photo exhibit
If you weren’t already aware, June doubles as Toronto’s Bike Month. So what are you doing to celebrate one of the city’s most celebrated two-wheeler friend?
If art bring people together emotionally and bikes do physically then why not combine the two? That’s exactly what west end gallery Hermann & Audrey are doing with the presentation of Life Cycles, an interactive, engagement-based art showcase and community event program about bicycles and the people who ride them.
The weekend-long showcase involves nine participating artists who will be displaying a variety of installation and interactive artwork at the Hermann & Audrey space. The artworks explore the bicycle as a vehicle for expression of personal style, as well as an action towards a sustainable future and unifier of community. Among the artists involved in the event includes photographer Steve Carty, whose portrait photography includes subjects such as Colin Firth to Michael Sheen. Joining Carty is internationally published fashion photographer and filmmaker Cory Vanderploeg, whose work has recently been shortlisted for Milan’s International Upcoming Fashion Filmmakers. Danielle DaSilva, the woman behind Photography Without Borders, is also on the list of participating artists. DaSilva’s not-for-profit organization sees the arts as an effective strategy for sustainable development and tool for communication. Other artists on the roster for the three day affair include Blood of the Young, Max + GNA, Doug Brown, Wade Hudson, Chelsea Roisum and Susie Julia Zmyslowski.