THE SCENE: Legendary models and Toronto’s fashion elite at Joe Mimran’s bash at the ROM

By Karolyne Ellacott | October 22, 2012

By Karolyne Ellacott | 10/22/2012

Leave it to Joe Mimran to throw the ultimate pre-Fashion Week shindig. A private screening of Versailles ’73 at the ROM on Saturday eve drew Toronto’s most notable dressers, along with legendary models Pat Cleveland, Alva Chinn and Karen Bjornson. The flick revisits a fashion show held at Versailles nearly four decades ago, in which a swarm of American models, many of whom were black, wowed the stuffy Parisian establishment. Following the screening, we trotted upstairs after Catherine Nugent, director Deborah Riley Draper, and the Beckerman sisters (both dressed in sparkly floor-length numbers) to a room outfitted with a runway and macaron trees in white and orange (this was a Joe Fresh event, after all).

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Model Liisa Winkler headed straight for the bar, while Zoomer’s Suzanne Boyd did the rounds in a fantastical feather headpiece. Hello Canada’s Lisa Tant hobnobbed with Shinan Govani and The Room’s creative director Nicholas Mellamphy. Meanwhile, the ever-ebullient artist Andrea Bolley kicked up her heels to the ‘70s tunes spinning overhead, playing the muse to socialite Nolan Bryant’s lens. Cleveland—whose evocative reminiscing made her the star of the doc—swanned around the room in a graceful swath of lime green. Here’s hoping this week’s Joe Fresh runway show is just as effortless.

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Versailles ’73 Canadian premiere at the Royal Ontario Museum — (Image: George Pimentel)

2 thoughts on “THE SCENE: Legendary models and Toronto’s fashion elite at Joe Mimran’s bash at the ROM”

cathie says:

October 23, 2012 at 5:26 pm

Jeannie Beker, you look fabulous! So chic, age-appropriate, the handbag, everything, you’re gorgeous. Now, Sara Handreke, we all know that fur adds 20 lbs and 20 years, so your vest needs to be donated to a ice fisherman in Parry Sound. Pat Cleveland, why are you wearing a hot air balloon? Liisa Winkler, your hair is limp and unhealthy looking, start with cutting 6″ off the bottom. Cameron Silver – you are just perfect.
JoJo says:

October 24, 2012 at 9:04 am

boring boring boring