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Label: pedram karimi Designer Name(s): Pedram Karimi Hometown: Tehran, Iran Zodiac sign: Gemini Year you created your label: 2012   Describe your label in three words Forever changing, gender-free, playful What made you first want to be a designer? A program to study fashion design & marketing somehow just fell in my lap after finishing […]

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Label: CHRISTOPHER PAUNIL Designer Name(s): Christopher Paunil Hometown: Scarborough, Ontario Zodiac sign: Libra Year you created your label: 2010   Describe your label in three words Modern, romantic, refined. What made you first want to be a designer? I used to watch my grandmother sew for herself when I was young. I remember watching Fashion […]

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Label: Tara Rivas Designer Name(s): Tara Rivas Hometown: Toronto, ON Zodiac sign: Gemini Year you created your label: 2015   Describe your label in three words Timeless, versatile and empowering. What made you first want to be a designer?  I constantly used to “edit” clothes and have them altered to my taste. While in university, I designed my own clothes for special […]

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Label: ALEX S. YU Designer Name(s): Alex S. Yu  Hometown: Born in Taipei, Taiwan, raised in Vancouver, BC Zodiac sign: Aquarius Year you created your label: 2014   Describe your label in three words Whimsical, chromatic, girly-vibes. What made you first want to be a designer? Flipping through fashion magazines at a young age introduced me to the world of […]

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Label: Hilary MacMillan Designer Name(s): Hilary MacMillan Hometown: Toronto, Canada Zodiac Sign: Cancer Year you created your label: 2013   Describe your label in three words: Contemporary, Vegan, Canadian What made you first want to be a designer? Hanging around West Queen West when my sister and I owned a jewellery store there, seeing the incredible love of […]

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Label: ZOFF Designer Name: Michael Zoffranieri  Hometown: Mississauga, ON  Zodiac Sign:  Gemini sun, Aries rising, Gemini moon  Year you created your label: 2012, relaunched in 2017   Describe your label in three words  Feels like home, tailored, badass bitch What made you first want to be a designer? I’ve always loved fashion and its relationship with storytelling but for a […]

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Label: NARCES Designer Name(s): Nikki Wirthensohn Yassemi Hometown: Toronto Zodiac sign: Aries Year you created your label: 2011   Describe your label in three words Glamorous, whimsical, body-jewelry   What made you first want to be a designer? Apprenticing while very young for my mother who was also a designer When you decided to become designer, what is one […]

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Label: Namesake Designer Name(s): Rosa Halpern Hometown: Toronto Zodiac sign: Taurus Year you created your label: 2015   Describe your label in three words Empowering, enduring, inclusive  What made you first want to be a designer?   I learnt to sew at age 10 because I couldn’t find clothes I liked that fit me… After going to art school with an […]

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 Label: M A N I  J A S S A L Designer Name(s): Mani Jassal  Hometown: Brampton  Zodiac sign: Scorpio   Year you created your label: 2014   Describe your label in three words Eclectic, Rebellious, Diverse What made you first want to be a designer? Since I could remember, I had always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I […]

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Label: Victoria Hayes Designer Name(s): Victoria Hayes Hometown: Toronto Zodiac sign: Libra  Year you created your label: 2017   Describe your label in three words Feminine, Subversive, Celebratory  What made you first want to be a designer?  Watching Fashion Television with Jeanne Beker as a kid. When you decided to become designer, what is one thing you had no idea you’d […]

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Label: MIKHAEL KALE Designer Name(s):  Mikhael Kale Hometown:  Toronto Zodiac sign:  Aquarius Year you created your label:  2008 What made you first want to be a designer? The sewing and development of something from nothing. When you decided to become designer, what is one thing you had no idea you’d have to do? Work. Very […]

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Leather jacket atelier, NAMESAKE is no stranger to making one-of-a-kind pieces. Each item is hand-crafted in Toronto and made to order. For NAMESAKE, there’s just no other way… They know that a leather jacket is all about identity and how can anyone truly express themselves when they’re buying off-the-rack? This September, the brand will continue […]

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