Four years and growing, the Cabinet Éphémère, that roving popup of Quebec designers, has moved into Rockland Centre. The store is a delight, festooned with flowers and pink planter pots, with a beige carpet that has been brought to life with the graffiti-esque scrawlings of Ojo. Fitting rooms are art installations – garden scenes, giant [...]
The Festival Mode & Design, the annual celebration of fashion on the street for the people, came to a close Saturday night. There was something for everybody in this 16th edition – 20 conferences from lofty names like Hervé (Leger) Leroux, Scott Schuman and Charlie Le Mindu, catwalk shows from our high street brands – [...]
I’m back! For two weeks and counting, my online activity involved posting pictures of sunsets on Lake Champlain, checking the weather and GPS routing. And maybe a touch of Facebook and Instagram trawling. Now the countdown is on to the Festival Mode & Design, Aug. 15-20, when fashion takes its place at the Quartier des [...]
Who doesn’t like a slash of hot pink brush strokes on silk? Vivid colours painted on silk adorn the new collection of silk scarves and clothing by Marie-Andrée Wallot. The line, called Wallo – without the “t” in the designer’s name – is one of several new arrivals at the Cabinet Éphémère, the pop-up shop [...]