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The Indigenous Fashion Design Breakthrough
I was travelling through India on my own when I finally decided I wanted to look like all the beautiful women around me. So I walked into a jewellery shop in Pondicherry and stood perfectly still as a burly man in a lungi pushed a stud through my right nostril with his bare hands. Today, […]
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Inside Park: Calgary’s fashion crowd hits Edmonton for a stylish industry party
Photography by Ngyoface Last month, Alberta kicked off a month of fashion weeks and events around the world with its own fashion gathering, unlike any fashion gathering the province had seen before. Hosted at Latitude 53’s new downtown Edmonton location, Calgary’s PARK (Promoting Artists, Redefining Kulture) debuted into new, northern territory.
For anyone who knows the history of the two cities, (hockey) rivalry is core to their relationship, but with FASHION as its official magazine sponsor, Edmonton’s fashion industry professionals—from designers, boutique owners, hair stylists and make-up artists, to photographers, bloggers, writers and media personalities—came together to mix and mingle with their local community and connect with their southern counterpart.
Calgary’s Jessie Li and Kara Chomistek, co-founders and producers of PARK, are looking to expand the organization’s reach and connect the fashion industry’s movers-and-shakers by hosting events throughout the province (and one day, they say, Canada). “The Edmonton fashion community has been incredibly supportive of what we’ve done in Calgary and we want to continue to build and develop the relationships between our two cities,” says Li. The two young producers, a chartered accountant and an engineer, respectively, co-founded PARK in 2008 as an effort to provide emerging artists and designers with greater opportunities to show and sell their works.
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Our top picks from Western Canada Fashion Week including Stanley Carroll, Angélique Chmielewski, Malorie Urbanovitch and more!
Photography by Winston Wan See the looks from Western Canada Fashion Week»
Running seasonally for eight straight nights since its inception in 2005, Western Canada Fashion Week (WCFW) offers a platform for both emerging and veteran designers alike to showcase their work in a province that is relatively new to the fashion scene. Alongside expert-affirmation from the Mercedes-Benz Start Up judges last week, we can certainly say that there is some sparkle out west.
From Edmonton darling Nicole Campre, this season’s WCFW Emerging Designer contest winner, to long-time mens and womenswear designer Stanley Carroll, WCFW is nurturing some exciting talent each season at the TransAlta Arts Barns—and here are a few to check out:
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Inside Western Canada Fashion Week’s kick off party: theatrical dresses, stylish bloggers and more!
Photography by Harvey Miedreich Western Canada Fashion Week kicked off its seventh year and 14th season last Friday night at Phabrik art + design, a warehouse-style studio space in south central Edmonton run by WCFW’s executive and creative director, Sandra Sing Fernandes. The venue was the original hosting grounds for Edmonton Fashion Week way back when in 2005.