August 16, 2016 As many ponder retail’s future, venerable Canadian fashion retailer Simons is really pushing the envelope and exploring what our nation looks like now and where we’re going with technology. With stores in seven cities, CEO Peter Simons has been working with Vancouver artist Douglas Coupland and 3D printing expert John Biehler on a mega 3D portraiture project …
Garance Dore
November 2015 The blogosphere has bred its own small galaxy of innate fashion stars, but none shine as brightly as 40-year-old Garance Dore. Growing up in Corsica, her passion for style took her to Paris, where she worked as both an illustrator and photographer before launching her now famous ‘streetstyle’ blog ‘garancedore.com’ in 2006. Revered for her personal candor and …
David Downton
October 2015 While fashion illustration has taken a backseat to photography for decades, there have been rumblings in recent years that artful drawings are about to make a comeback in style circles. And judging by the recent excitement surrounding the work of David Downton, it looks like there is indeed a renewed interest in illustration. And that’s great news for …
Donald Robertson
April 2015 With fast fashion becoming so rampant, it’s no wonder that style circles are obsessing with the notion of fast art too. And few do that better than Toronto native Donald Robertson, a New York based illustrator who’s become a superstar on Instagram (@Drawbertson) with 135,000 followers, thanks to his wonderfully cheeky takes on fashion’s major movers and shakers. …
Philip Treacy
The impending royal wedding will be a heady affair – and no one’s more aware of that than Irish-born Philip Treacy, commissioned to create the headwear for the royal wedding party. One of Europe’s top hat makers since his discovery by the late fashion editor Isabella Blow in the 1990s, Mr. Treacy is a long-time favourite of Camilla Parker Bowles, …
Arthur Elgort
Until the early sixties and long before street style took off, fashion photography was largely confined to studio spaces with controlled lighting. Then along came Arthur Elgort, a Brooklyn-born art student who pushed the perimeters of the fashion photography of the day by capturing his subjects on the move and in natural light. His snapshot approach revolutionized the art form …
Stephan Caras and Matthew Gallagher
With eclecticism the operative word in fashion today, Toronto’s World Master Card Fashion Week promises to be right on trend. Some 27 disparate labels will be vying for the attention of media and buyers, each designer eager to make an indelible mark on the burgeoning Canadian fashion landscape. And while some of this country’s brightest fashion lights may not be …
Daphne Guinness and James Gager
Of all the artistic wonders I luxuriated in during Miami’s recent Art Basel fair, few were more inspiring than Daphne Guinness herself. The 43-year-old British heiress and haute mode aficionado, who turned herself into a virtual work of art with her sublime sense of aesthetics and brave creative choices, swooped into Miami to launch her latest project with MAC: a …