Kudos to Emanuela Lolli for keeping Fashion Preview, a showcase for Montreal design, up and running for 10 seasons. It can’t be easy. It has moved from its early editions at the Phi Centre and Ogilvy’s Tudor Hall, on to the Agora of the Coeur des Sciences at UQAM, and now to the Edifice Wilder, [...]
Jam-packed, raucous and buzzy. Soignée, elegant and bubbly. Those were the moods at two back-to-back shows at different events to close out a week of fashion in Montreal. Quelle semaine! Fashion Preview, the showcase for emerging Quebec designers and fashion schools, took to the catwalk for its ninth edition Monday through Wednesday. On the final [...]
The buzz about Mark Antoine has been building since his student days at UQAM just two years ago. This week, fans packed the closing show of the seventh edition of Fashion Preview for a rousing finale to the week. Bursts of orange from burnt to bright and neon green stood out, as did touches of glitter (sleeves [...]
Fashion Preview, Montreal’s semi-annual showcase of fashion and accessory design, is two weeks away, and Daniel Beaudet will once again be one of the ones to watch with his Leinad Beaudet collection, titled Outremont, ma chère. Always poetic and evocative, Beaudet’s words match the mood of his fashion. From the invitation to the upcoming show: [...]
In the runup to Fashion Preview, a three-day showcase of Montreal labels, I asked: Is this the new fashion week? Well, it is trying hard, but there was not enough exciting content for a three-day event. First, on the negative side, everything was slow, excruciatingly so. When Fashion Preview launched six seasons ago, it was [...]