Lucian Matis will not show at Toronto fashion week next season
According to a piece in the Ryerson student weekly The Eyeopener, Toronto-based designer (and Project Runway alum) Lucian Matis will skip LG Fashion Week’s fall season and show in New York instead. The designer recently presented his fall collection in Toronto, but it must not have created the buzz he was looking for. Indeed, his show was given an early 5 p.m. time slot, and the venue wasn’t exactly packed. “You have to be international, you have to grow continuously,” Matis told the paper. “I feel like it’s a little bit slack right now. I feel like it’s not moving forward, so I need to move forward.” Maybe Matis read Amy Verner’s recent Q&A with André Leon Talley, in which the Vogue editor agreed that Canadian designers might have to leave the country in order to get attention. At any rate, fashion week just lost one of its best shows.
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That’s ok – he is ripping off JohnGalliano/Dior again. We need originality, not copy cats!
It is sad to see all the great talented leave the country, but Lucian is much better off. What is Fashion Week for anyways? Arent there too many of them…Canada alone has so many!!!!!
As for FDiva: not sure what copying you are referring to, but you are completely out of loop with reality. Just because he is at a Galliano caliber doens’t mean that he is knocking him off. It is the European sensitivity that maybe Lucian and Galliano have in common, but either then that…It really makes me angry when I see ignorant/uneducated people making statements like these
I am stunned that Lucian is leaving Toronto…and SAD! that was the only show that mattered to me. Can FDCC intervene?
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Congrats Lucian!!!! I am 100% in agreement with Norma.
Lucian’s work is AMAZING! By far best show of the week!!!!
Peace!
those damn ignorant/uneducated peasants know nothing!!!
Lucian in NY???? I don’t get it?… Lucian in Paris makes more sense to me.
Why does everyone fail to recognize that the FDCC is the problem. Designers have to leave if they actually want to become part of the global market. If the organizers of LG Fashion week would up their game by executing a stronger presentation for once and make a commitment to a location (which would be nice). If they would just bring in some fresh talent and stop showing the same stagnant show year after year, we might actually attract international buyers and media. Then people like Mikhael Kale and Jeremy Laing wouldn’t have to launch their lines in NYC in the first place. Don’t get me wrong there are some bright points at LG, but the majority of it can be yawn inducing.
They need to stop catering to the small pocket of rich old ladies and make use of the mass marketing capacity of the new global media. If the big names can’t find time to come to Toronto for the big show, well make them feel like they are missing out on something, by getting the big names in on web over here.
Let’s make LG fresh, fun, and forward thinking. Challenge Canadian designers to achieve success and to further push their skills up to an international level. For too long Canadian designers have been starving both figuratively and literally, it is time for a change. All I have left to say is good for you Lucian, I wish you all the best, and don’t worry it is the smart thing to do.
F Diva – Do you actually have to make that same lame comment in every article about the man? Are you in love or something?
Also, has any news pub that reprinted this story actually contacted LM for verification? Or would that be too much work?
Agree with “Evan Biddell” or whoever is posting with that handle (apart from his rude tone); Paris makes more sense than NY.
This is ridiculous. I have been waiting for his show ever since I saw him on project runway and now that finally I have the money and am of age, he is not going to show anymore. That is really disappointing.
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This is very sad. Lucian has always been innovative. All of his shows have been spectacular. But the Toronto mainstream press coverage of his work has generally been awful. It is of little surprise then that he has moved on.
It’s sad, but he will come again does he?