Canada News | Fashionable Press Review of The Toronto Lg Fashion Week

Yolkobsens wait with impatience for Toronto LG Fashion Week to unwrap its Canadian designs on an excited fashionista nation.

We have said a number of times in this blog space that there is not enough notice or notoriety given over to Canadian fashion and style and we applaud the efforts of the Fashion Design Council of Canada for bringing it rollicking to our attention.

At fahionablepress.com we try to devote at least 25 percent of our editorial space to Canadian fashion’s current and next great wave of trend makers and visionaries. It’s not always easy since Canadian designers are a modest breed; too busy designing to pay attention to good social media practices. But we will persist in our quest.

In the lead-up to the Toronto Fashion Week size-zero romp, we have done some research of our own on the bold, provocative and experimental designers whose wares will not be gracing the spotlighted runways this year. But we expect to see them in other prominent fashion iterations in the near future.

A visit to the Toronto Fashion Incubator is a good start if you want to find emerging sensibilities and many silhouettes, from the coy to the daring.

Let’s start with gentle stylings of Sophie Taylor who impresses with fabrics of her own imagination and which she navigates to excellent effect in her gouache colour infused creations. Our favourite is her musings on floral fabrics arranged in summer sundress bouquets, which she presents in a kind of paper doll fantasy come real.

Next, let’s look at the pencil sharp discourse of ready-to-wear house Batina Lou, headquartered in the imagination of designer Marie-Eve Emond. Blending shop girl with 1950s art student on an Italian bender, the almost nostalgia targets something we recognize and yet slips away as soon as we try to pin it down. Reminiscent and unknown at the same time, the collection, dominated by tailored skirts and flirty blouses, is a throw forward to the woman who knows she’s been there before, wearing it shorter for her mother.

Resurrection of Romance by Jessica Rose is also on our standout list of prêt-a-porter currently firing out of the TFI roster. Her stylist’s gestures are softly romantic with minimalist up tones as her signature. These are clothes for those who appreciate what flowing draped jersey fabrics can do for any figure or for the cautiously euphoric woman.