All that glitters is not gold and the decor of the 24th Toronto Fashion Week looks like Liberace covered in crystal. Light glitters from white walls and couches, the VIP tent is draped with white voile, ladies flock to the style area to have their hair and makeup done in a shimmer of mirror and metal, and the media room is an ode to transparency, wide open with Lucite chairs and lamps. Above the sea of whiteness a mysterious black room complete with a black chandelier towers silently above the maddening crowds. And the crowds are maddening. Beautiful, elegant, to be sure, but this is not the place for the claustrophobic.
Ezra Constantine @ the Holt Renfrew Presents “Can’t Live Without Canadian Fashion” Show
Izzy Camilleri and Adrian Mainella’s IZMA (via Brill Communications)
We get down to business with the Holts show. Ezra Constantine’s snug pants and snuggly cowl sweaters in rainy greys are gorgeous on diverse male models (why did it take designers this long to figure out we need more First Nations men on the runway? Yum!), and the Greta Constantine boys use black to springboard lush amethyst and garnet. Izzy Camilleri and Adrian Mainella marry wit and wisdom in their ultra-luxe IZMA collection of acid cut velvets in burgundy and chocolate, shot with gold and layered with fur (note: it’s definitely a bad year to be a fox).
This is just a taste of what’s to come – the rest of the week offers collections by the likes of Denis Gagnon and David Dixon, and as always, it’s exciting to watch for young designers.
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