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  • TFW diary: A spellbinding neo-Victorian spring at Chloé Comme Parris

    by Randi Bergman
    Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani

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    I shouldn’t pick favourites, but I’ll do it anyways. Maybe it’s because we share a fondness for all things Victorian, or maybe it’s just because the clothes were that good, but halfway through LG Fashion Week, I was already utterly spellbound by Chloé Comme Parris Spring 2012. After a similarly stellar LG debut last season, sister duo of Chloé and Parris Gordon took us back to the late 1800s, minus the wasp waists and lack of gender equality. “We were really looking at raised necklines and detailing and interesting ways of cinching in a waist or pleating and draping, but looking at how to reduce these silhouettes that can’t really be worn today because they are so voluminous and so ornate,” said sister Chloé when we visited the studio last week. The sisters’ look at the era was apparent, from delicate woven lace-like trousers and jumpers, to the William Morris-like print appearing on several dresses (the finale dress was a dead ringer for a neo-sack dress à la Pre-Raphaelite muse Jane Morris). Updated with interesting cropping (a jean jacket cut just below the collar comes to mind), sexy slits, and cross-body pearl necklaces, it’s without any sort of hometown inhibition that I can honestly say—if there was such a thing as a thousand star rating, this collection would have it. In my books, at least.

    Posted in Chloé Comme Parris, Chloé Gordon, Fashion Week, Jane Morris, Parris Gordon, Spring 2012, Style, Toronto Fashion Week, Toronto Fashion Week Spring 2012, Victorian, William Morris

  • Let’s digest: Five things you didn’t know about Kate’s wedding day outfit

    by Randi Bergman
    Kate and her sister and maid of honour Pippa (also in Alexander McQueen) shot by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

    Our minds, hearts and eyes were proverbially blown this morning by the dizzying spectacle that was the royal wedding. Cementing her place amongst fashion royalty as well as the real kind, Kate showed real foresight by choosing Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen to design her dress and sending the fashion folk along with the rest of 3 billion viewers worldwide into an equally spellbinding tizzy! Recalling a little Grace Kelly (hand-cut English lace and French Chantilly lace bodice) and a little Queen Elizabeth II (nipped waist, full skirt and train), Kate’s dress just radiated regal romanticism. Simply put, there was nothing negative you could possibly say about that dress! We’ll have more coverage a little later today direct from London, but in the meantime, lets digest some of the details surrounding Kate’s (or should we say Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge’s) wedding day outfit:

    Posted in Alexander McQueen, Arts and Crafts, Cartier, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Celebrity, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Grace Kelly, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth, Royal watch, Royal Wedding, Sarah Burton, William Morris