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Lesley Hampton’s Collection Honouring Indigenous Women & Other Highlights From Day Two of Toronto Fashion Week
Lesley Hampton’s show at the Gardiner Museum opened with a powerful performance by Indigenous singer and musician Iskwe. Wearing a spectacular feathered capelet, the Juno-nominated artist performed two original tracks with a live band, ending with a call to the entire room to join in on a song titled ‘The Unforgotten,’ which she says is […]
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Menswear report: The best Fall 2014 shows from Toronto Fashion Week
Photography by George Pimentel See the top menswear looks from Fall 2014 fashion week »
By Derek Lall and Jacky Le
Men’s fashion was given some much-needed attention this season at World Mastercard Fashion Week, as a handful of shows were dedicated to style-enlightened gentleman. In Toronto, we saw a range of menswear styles that were worthy of coveting—from modern contemporary at Thomas Balint to the bespoke luxury at Christopher Bates, we’ve compiled the highlight menswear shows from this fashion week for your viewing pleasure.
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Designers, models and cool kids toast fashion week at Soho House
Photography by Mauricio Calero It was a busy start to World Mastercard Fashion Week in Toronto on Monday. Not to be outdone by a show-packed schedule, the trio behind promo team The Collections threw an opening night party at Soho House. Drawing their usual west end crowd, cool kids in toques, cornrows and dark lips filled the elegant space with attitude to spare. The company’s troupe of represented designers including Beaufille’s Chloe and Parris Gordon, Sid Neigum and Thomas Balint’s Michael Thomas all came by to toast the week ahead. Photographer Renata Kaveh went for early spring megawatt, opting for head-to-toe white. Meanwhile, several fresh-off-the-runway models infiltrated with glass cutting cheekbones.
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Toronto Fashion Week: The 4 new designers on our radar for Fall 2013
At long last the fashion-week train has pulled into Toronto. The 10-day (or so) extravaganza kicks off tomorrow night with The Shows before moving to King West on Monday for World MasterCard Fashion Week at David Pecaut Square. A truly Canadian affair, both of the Toronto Fashion Week enterprises bring a wealth of global experience and influences home, and for the Fall 2013 season there’s no shortage of world-class newcomers on the roster.
In addition to our tried-and-true favourites (Chloé Comme Parris, Jeremy Laing and Pink Tartan), we’ve got our eyes on four promising Toronto runway first-timers: Steven Tai (who presents his latest collection at The Shows fresh from its debut at Paris Fashion Week) and Lacerda, Maison Matthew Gallagher and Thomas Bálint, all to be featured in the tents. Put together, these labels have combined experience in São Paulo, New York, Milan, Berlin, London and Macau. For some, this season will be their international coming-out party, though one of them has already found a fan in influential Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto.