Tag: toronto fashion week

The best way to open a fashion week is by honouring those who have impacted the industry in a big way. The Fashion Group International (FGI) knows how to do it right, as they did just that with their luncheon on Monday, March 23rd, when they celebrated the many achievements and successes of Bonnie Brooks by awarding her with FGI’s International Award of the Year.

“The better you dress – the WORSE you can behave” – was one of the closing lines in an email Jay Strut sent a few weeks before Toronto Fashion Week outlining his plans to host a week of events this season. And his series of events were some of wild fashion week after-parties and on that Jay Strut certainly delivered.

“A well known ritual for the past twenty years, after every fashion show David Dixon has stopped and picked up a hamburger on the way home” and on Tuesday March 24th guests were invited to join in David’s tradition at Wahlburgers following his Joan of Arc themed 20 year anniversary show.

After presentations and semi-final runway shows across the country searching for the next generation of talent, the short list of Mercedes-Benz Start Up fashion designers have been announced. The program is Canada’s platform for emerging fashion designers with a total of 8 finalists in the group runway show with Spring/Summer 2014 collections to be featured at World MasterCard Fashion Week on Tuesday, October 22 at 7pm. With Carlos Fogelman from HIP AND BONE announced as the 8th and final designer…

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