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

fashion in berlin? how ideal!

This is one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Ann Gilpin, a Montréal-based clothing designer, featured here in a photo taken on the weekend at the fashion tradeshow, IDEAL, and posted on the streetwear blog, Stil in Berlin. Jennifer's wearing her own garments here and the ones hanging on the rack behind her are also from her most recent (and brilliant) collection which, I happened to do the styling for. Her collections are the perfect symbiosis of the stylish and the conceptual. Here are two of my favorite pieces from the new collection - a black jumpsuit with adjustable leg length, and a morphable dress/shrug/cape in stretch twilight gray.



Photographs by Jason Sanchez & Elena Willis.