La Semaine de Mode - Montreal Fashion Week SS12 Looks

DENIS GAGNON

UNTTLD (design duo comprised by my chums Jose Manuel St. Jacques & Simon Belanger)

TRAVIS TADDEO

 Images source: Bureau de la mode de Montréal | Photographe : Vincenzo D'Alto

Montreal Fashion Week - SS 10 - DENIS GAGNON

Montreal Fashion Week wrapped up last night with its most anticipated show - Denis Gagnon. Body con, slick, Balmain-esque silhouettes. It was refreshing to see pale pastels in the mix, given that the designer's religion has been black-on-black for the last several collections. The bold, chunky, mishapen bracelets worn by the models were provided by my favorite Montreal jewelery designer, the very talented Harakiri. As expected, all attendees looked like they had paid great attention to what they themselves wore to the show. The sharpest-dressed gentleman there was photographer, Sylvain Blais, in his white suit and black bow-tie in the front row. I wore an obscenely large-shouldered vintage fur myself, and got my photo taken by a few magazine photographers present at the event. If I happen to come across any snapshots of it online, I promise to share! Photo credit: Gazette Montreal.

Rad Hourani

Montréal-raised designer, Rad Hourani's, collection for Spring 2010 screams, 'Montréal'. I remember the first time I met Rad in 2006 (then, a stylist) at a fashion party in Montréal and looking around me at all the 'fashion types' and noting the Montréal fashion-elite uniform in full-swing. Everyone looked like they could have modeled in Hourani's runway show; skintight black silhouettes, angular elements mixed with the soft; each harbouring an appreciation for Rick Owens' assymetry and imperfection, Helmut Lang's androgyny, and Denis Gagnon's sense of proportion. Hourani's latest collection assumes the best aspects of the Montréal design and style scene and manages to articulate them in an original and exciting way. Photos: Style.com

Montreal Fashion Week

Montréal Fashion Week / Semaine de Mode de Montréal kicked off today. Another gig made sure that I missed out on the Press Cocktail this afternoon, but tonight I'll be attending Marie Saint Pierre's show as well as the curated, fashion in short films series, FLY. Both events will take place at the Imperial, a theatre originally opened in 1913 and first used for vaudeville acts. How fitting for a fashion show to be brought (literally) to the theatre!

On a controversial (and sad!) note, some of Montréal's best and most innovative designers are not showing this year. Here are the Montréal designers who unfortunately will NOT be showing this season...

• Renata Morales (on tour with her boyfriend in Arcade Fire)
• Phillipe DuBuc (financial woes)
  
• Denis Gagnon (M.I.f.A. - Missing in Fashion Action)

A bientôt mes amis,
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