Toronto Fashion Week: 18 incredible looks from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
Toronto Fashion Week: 18 incredible looks from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
Held each season just before Toronto Fashion Week proper, The Shows celebrates the work of Canadian talents who have graduated to bigger, splashier ponds, like New York, London and Paris. The Fall 2014 edition, held over two days at the Storys Buildings, included shows by Montreal-born suit specialist Antonio Azzuolo and New York-based Kaelen Haworth, plus repeat performances from design duo Bellavance and Vancouverite-turned-Londoner Steven Tai, who traded last season’s sporty, geek-chic looks for feminine pleats and voluminous fringes. Below, the highlights from each collection.
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- <strong>Steven Tai </strong>departed from last season’s geek-chic aesthetic with feminine pleats, dropped waists and demure hemlines. (During the post-show Q&A, moderator <b>Alexandra Palmer</b> noted that Tai’s fall collection was “actually kind of normal”) <br />
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Tai also played with a repeating embroidered floral motif, similar to<strong> Prada’</strong>s <a href="http://www.shop4jewel.com/images/Flats/2014-Exquisite-Prada-Women-Black-Patent-Leather-Flat-Shoes-Flower-Pattern-For-Cheap_001.jpg">signature blooms</a>
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The Vancouver expat rounded out his collection with a handful of moody indigo looks, like this blue knit top overflowing with jacquard fringe. (“It’s the idea of girl who broke up with boyfriend and she’s keeping his clothes and slashing them up,” he explained)
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The pleats go all the way to the floor in this black and white ensemble
- (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani)
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- <strong>Kaelen Haworth </strong>is known for her urban, all-black apparel, so this collection’s pastels and ruffels were something of a surprise. Masculine shapes—like this slouchy jumpsuit—kept the line from looking too frou-frou
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Haworth wasn’t afraid to mix patterns and textures, or to clash colours, as she did by pairing this tomato-red mohair jacket with a pale pink fox-fur stole
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Brooklyn-based natural dyer <b>Audrey Louise Reynolds</b> coloured some of the collection’s pieces with squid ink and berries
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- This slouchy violet coat provided one of the collection’s few pops of bold colour
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Ryerson grad <b>Antonio Azzuolo’</b>s debut womenswear line combined the bespoke taylor’s impeccable suiting with feminine touches, like fitted trousers and belted tunics
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Other pieces played with volume, like this textured oversized sweater
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The same chunky knit showed up on a bold violet vest in the menswear collection
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The Montreal native accented his menswear line with traditionally feminine colours, like the bright fuschia of this draped sweater
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- <b>Nolan Bellavance</b> and <b>Ava Hama </b>called this pleated black material “garbage-bag fabric.” Their collection was inspired by “uniforms that aren’t quite right,” as moderator <b>Alexandra Palmer </b>put it.
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Bellavance and Hama also played with pattern: this simple argyle design is based on the interlocking spokes of a chain-link fence
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The cropped, layered blouse gives this demure look a youthful, modern edge
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- Hard, undistressed denim was a running theme in the collection. Hama spent hours sanding down the seams, to give each one a soft blue glow.
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The Parsons grads played with girlish uniform shapes, adding unexpected features, like skin-revealing cutouts
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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- The chain-link pattern also showed up on white pleated garments, like this feminine mid-length skirt. The pattern was applied over the pleats, so it broke up as the model walked, giving the piece a slightly distorted appearance
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- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
- Toronto Fashion Week: Fall 2014 highlights from four Canadian designers who have hit it big abroad
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Held each season just before Toronto Fashion Week proper, The Shows celebrates the work of Canadian talents who have graduated to bigger, splashier ponds, like New York, London and Paris. The Fall 2014 edition, held over two days at the Storys Buildings, included shows by Montreal-born suit specialist Antonio Azzuolo and New York-based Kaelen Haworth, plus repeat performances from design duo Bellavance and Vancouverite-turned-Londoner Steven Tai, who traded last season’s sporty, geek-chic looks for feminine pleats and voluminous fringes. Below, the highlights from each collection.
See all 18 looks »
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