From an article on Model Resource:
Archive for March, 2010
The Advocates "Clever"
Monday, March 29th, 2010Top Stylists On Canadian Fashion
Sunday, March 28th, 2010TORONTO, ON (March 26, 2010) – Event and social media video producers, The Advocates, have released a short online video this morning in celebration of LG Fashion Week FW’10, which kicks off this Sunday.
The video features behind the scenes interviews with top Canadian stylists speaking about Canadian designers and trends. The video also offers a sneak peak at several FW’10 Canadian designer collections, including Evan Biddell, Andy Thê-Anh and Denis Gagnon.
Renata Kaveh For Poor But Sexy
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Hey All,
Here’s a video teaser that Renata Kaveh just released for Poor But Sexy Magazine. Check it out!
Fashion Week is Upon Us… Well Sort Of
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Spring is in the air and you know what that means… another season of fall/winter fashion from our country’s finest purveyors of style is upon us. Although, It feels like fashion week has been spread across a three week stint starting with last Tuesday’s Halston Heritage launch.
We’re busting our asses to prepare for our second installment of WOMEN x WOMEN which includes an industry and media reception on April 1 and a public exhibition on April 2 (Good Friday). We hope you will be pleasantly surprised by the slew of visuals from this year’s show- I know we are pretty effing stoked about it.
Mind you, we of course, will find the time to attend events every night leading up to the big show. Why, you ask, would we put ourselves through such straining schedules? Because we’re young, unmarried, no babies, no divorces, no mother in laws, obligatory brunches, potluck lunches, and we’ve just got to dammit!
So last Thursday we hit The Courthouse to check out Breeyn McCarney in a sweaty room filled with hipsters and Toronto who’s whos. Breeyn presented her new collection “Hard Boiled Wonderland” to an intrigued audience.
Then Friday, we raced as fast as my little Mazda 3 could take us along the Gardiner to make it out to the middle of Bayview and Where the Fuck Am I Street where the Audi dealership is not-so-conveniently located. This is the second season that Greta Contstantine has shown their collection in the converted industrial garage in the basement. And can I just say, ‘Wow. Now THAT is a fashion show. Seriously.”
The show included Toronto’s top models including my hometown favorite Elise Helene Gatschene strutting along the seemingly never-ending runway in long gowns that were intricately draped and tailored in deep rich hues.
I was holding my friggin breath as they marched confidently in 6 inch stiletto heels while the fabric draped just at floor level, danced dangerously close to what could have turned into a complete runway disaster. Luckily no models did any face plants on the sure to be less than forgiving concrete floors. I think I had fingernail marks dug into my palms from clenching my hands while watching. Geez! Good thing there was a well stocked bar full of Stoli upstairs where we could calm our nerves and fawn all over the sensational pieces from visionary Greta Constantine designers, Kirk Pickersgill & Stephen Wong. Good show.
PHOTO BY: AYM PHOTOGRAPHY
Saturday Kate and I took it easy… and by took it easy I mean Kate and TK polishing off a magnum of Jackson Triggs Cabernet and me getting into a snifter glass full of Los Arangos and then, feeling “inspired” at 4am, staging a fashion show in our bathroom.
Ah yes, fashion is indeed in the air. People are busting out their leather jackets in lieu of parkas, Kate’s been wearing her cut off jeans and striped Tshirts, and strolling through Yorkville last week, I saw some eleventeen year olds walking around in short shorts, spaghetti strap tank tops and flip flops. All I could think is, patience young grasshopper, there’s plenty of time left in the year and your preteen life for you to solicit inappropriate attention from older men. Sometimes less isn’t always more… sometimes more is… more… or whatever. Either way, put it away ya skank. You’re pasty legs are blinding me.
Nada 3-D Fashion Film Premiere
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Nada screened what has been coined, the first 3-D fashion film IN THE WORLD this evening at Scotiabank Theatres in Toronto. Both screenings were packed with fashion enthusiasts eager to see the short film. The film featured seven minutes of a kung fu inspired fantasy video game where two models choose their weapons and fight to the death. Fashion kills. I dig it.
This screening, and yesterday’s Halston launch mark the beginning of a couple busy weeks of fashion crap, so yea, don’t expect much on the writing front because all creativity will likely be squeezed out of the narrow eye of a hangover haze.
Cheers.
Glen Baxter was the evening’s MC, representing CTV’s In Fashion!
Lily & Lilac and Super Stylist (Ya I just coined that!) Alexis Honce.
The Return of Glamour: The Halston Heritage Launch
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Penny Lane and I hit the Halston Heritage Launch hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker (her awesomeness to the rest of us) last eve, and needless to say, we hit it hard. We wore vintage dresses that we scored at Frou Frou on Queen West (Roncy) and I vote them a total success. We were a little underwhelmed by the lack of creativity expressed at what should have been a fabulous throw back event in honour of the King of Disco attire- Halston.
I was a little disappointed in my picture taking skills as I was only able to get a pic of the back of SJP’s pretty head before a host said my camera would be confiscated if I took another snap. Dick.
Toronto’s own Fritz Helder & the Phantoms (or at least two parts of the group) performed a racy act involving face decals and ass floss *ahem* American Apparel Disco Shorts – whatever werk it if you got it girrrrl.
Then came out the dancers in the dresses which I thought were totally lack luster compared to Kat’s vintage find for a fraction of the price. The girls were dancing on the lit disco-esque stage and trying to coerce the gawkers to come on stage and bust their moves. But in typical Toronto fashion, every one was too cool or chicken shit so the stage stood empty except for the disco queens who danced while exchanging stink eyes with each other over the lame crowd and the attendees watched awkwardly- and it was awesome. I have it on good authority from a cater waiter who I knew, that they were instructed to leave their posts and go dance on stage in an effort to try to get a dance floor going. Ha. Fail.
This dusty pink cape dress was the one stand out piece from the show last night. Kat and I both want it in our closets. $325 at Neiman Marcus
And of course, as per usual, it’s not a party until Kat starts eating. Woot. Go mini burger.
Meet Our New Friend: Dash Roberts
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Dash- meet everyone. Everyone- meet Dash. Dash was made by Roncy artist Iner Souster and he is not the first nor the second, but the FOURTH robot I have acquired from his studio.
You see, he has this studio full of junk and Iner is kind of like a mad scientist working away there all day. He makes absurd instruments, fauxbots and all kinds of interesting little trinkets that are bound to spark up conversation in your otherwise boring living room.
So before you think about getting a dog, or a cat, or a baby to keep you company for christssake, consider heading down to Queen St W to get a robot of your very own- and they’re affordable ya cheapskate.
Ciao
i want/need… love him. umm mark fast designs that is.
Monday, March 15th, 2010Mark Fast & Anita Cane… be careful.
its really hot.
Designs by Mark Fast
Photographer. Norman Wong
Model. Jessica Lewis
Wardrobe. Leigh James
Makeup & Hair. Anita Cane for The Artist Group
really all that needs to be said.
C’est tout ! x
Miss Chantal.
Monday, March 15th, 2010
pick a colour and engage the extreme. follow the trends. working with colour, texture, and the art that surrounds her… Miss Chantal believes in minimalism and the use of fantastical pieces. two words. hair extensions.
you may have seen Miss Chantal’s work grace the pages of Flare, EyeCandy, Wish, Chatelaine, enRoute, Viva, Glow, and More. check out how hard Miss Chantal rocked it on set in this month’s issue of Bello Magazine, entitled “Yin & Yang.”
shot by the young and often risque shooter Matthew Lyn. styled by Annie Lam for PLUTINO GROUP. the makeup and hair is Chantal Hubens for The Artist Group Limited.
what a babe ! x
"Wearing It" by Penny Lane – Icon Profile – Twiggy: A Life in Photographs
Monday, March 15th, 2010
The world’s first supermodel (and my personal idol), Twiggy Lawson (born Leslie Hornby) turned 60 this past fall. An icon worldwide, known for her slender frame, Bambi eyes and the ability to serve as a flawless clothes hanger for designers and magazines across the globe, Twiggy is one of those rare supermodels who has only become more graceful, refined and lovely as the years have gone by. Having enjoyed international success through her modeling, television and literary careers, she also describes herself as an dedicated supporter of breast cancer research and animal welfare. At 60 years old, she is beautiful, accomplished and needless to say, fierce.
People have often asked me why I’ve chosen to admire a stick figure with a boy haircut over say, the curvy, tanned, golden-haired Brazillian goddesses of a Victoria’s Secret catalogue. Well, I suppose it’s because I’m none of those things. Growing up, I struggled with my self-image by attempting to go tanning, wearing push-up bras and teasing my thin locks into oblivion, believing that the accomplishment of all these things will help me feel more like the girls in the magazines, more like the popular girls in my school, more like the type of girl I thought I should look like.
Fashion has always been my passion. I’ve religiously studied every ad and article in monthly Vogue issues for as long as I remember being able to afford buying magazines. But as much as I’ve been (in the words of others) blessed with a slender figure, I could never quite relate until I discovered Twiggy.
Studying her life through photographs, articles and interviews, I fell in love with her image and her persona, thus becoming a little more comfortable with coming into my own. I realized I didn’t need to feel that my lack of curves or bouncy blond curls made me any less beautiful than girls who had these attributes. I also realized that style, elegance and fashion individuality didn’t come from showing off too much skin, wearing the trendiest clothing or conforming.
Twiggy started a revolution in fashion and modeling. Her signature side swept short cut and an endless array of 60s shift dresses inspired not only my look and closet, but it brought me out of the box in terms of thinking, “What will look good on me?”, not “How can I look like I fit in with others?”. So my love for vintage
shopping turned into an obsession. The Swingies Sixties took over my bookshelf, my closet, my music collection. I looked to a time when things were more simple to declutter the complications of the culture I was served today.
Media has long blamed Twiggy for eating disorders and a distorted self image of other models and non-models, young girls worldwide, trying to fit the ultra skinny model mould represented by the phenomenon she started. But to be quite honest, it’s just as difficult to be told that “real women have curves” when in fact, you don’t. Does it make me less of a woman because I’m not a C-cup? It works both ways. In looking up to Twiggy, I felt more ok being me. Her version of sexy was understated. She never showed too much skin or made overtly erotic poses to the camera. She always looked comfortable with looking exactly like who she was.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has been hosting a show of her work entitled, “Twiggy: A Life in Photographs” (http://www.npg.org.uk/). This is the last week of the exhibition, ending on March 21st. If any of you readers and fashionistas happen to be in London, I highly recommend going and checking it out. As I won’t be having that chance, I’m opting for option B. The NPG has released a hard cover book of the images featured in the exhibition, available online at http://www.amazon.ca/.
The book contains an impressive collection of over 100 images, including Twiggy’s photos, chronicling a extensive period of time in her career, as well as her insights about the photographers with whom she has worked. It’s surely to become my favorite coffee table read for years to come.