Atlantic Fashion Week—Showcase 6 Saturday, December 10, 8:30pm The Village Shops at Dartmouth Crossing 174 Hector Gate $25 The work of Halifax-based designer Anthony El-Cid feels a million miles away from the north end cafe where we meet to talk about fashion. Dreamy silks and velvets the NSCAD graduate dyes himself—in order to “capture the exact […]
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AFW 10 years strong
Atlantic Fashion Week showcases 3 and 4 Friday, November 25, 8pm Saturday, November 26, 8pm 174 Hector Gate, Dartmouth Crossing, $25 Showcases continue until December 10, for a full event lineup see: atlanticfashionweek.com Atlantic Fashion Week’s creator and director Angela Campagnoni isn’t interested in reminiscing about the past 10 years—how the event has grown from […]
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AFW 2012 recap: Cut outs, coral, cuties
Having last been in Casino Nova Scotia’s Harbourfront Lounge for a depressing night where I found myself being stared down by an old boss before the night devolved into me trying to be the biggest bitch I possibly could be (pretty big), I welcomed a chance to cleanse that horrible night from my memory with […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week is on like Kreayshawn
Currently pumping this jam more than usual in anticipation of the 2011 Atlantic Fashion Week‘s first show, the Emerging Designer Showcase, this Wednesday at 8pm at Casino Nova Scotia. AFW sent out a very compelling press release that wrote, among other things, about the make-up trends for the 2011 AFW. They are as follows: “The […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week falls down
Late Tuesday Atlantic Fashion Week, which disappeared without a word this season, announced it will return in spring 2011. Posted on its Facebook page: “During the fall we will be helping to promote any designers having solo shows.” A wise move. Familiar AFW faces such as Katrina Tuttle, Akshay Tyagi and Chloé Comme Parris (critical […]
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Raw-fabric talent
Wanna dress like the cool kids? Atlantic Fashion Week‘s Emerging Designers Showcase (Thursday, April 15, 8pm, O’Reagan’s Mercedes Benz) always presents some of the city’s best young alternative fashion talents—this time, 15 take the stage, mostly from NSCAD‘s fashion and textile program, though that’s starting to change as the scene becomes more established and designers […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week night one recap
Last night, the Mercedes Benz showroom on Kempt Road was driven by another type of power: the exceptional talent of young, east coast fashion designers. Now to me, Kempt Road might as well be New Brunswick (pretty happy tonight’s at Hunter Street), but I’ll admit that the industrial, high-ceilings and steel beams work well as […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week night two recap
Night two of Atlantic Fashion Week is always dedicated to professional or established designers, as compared to Wednesday night’s emerging talent event. This season though, we felt the absence of Katrina Tuttle, who wowed them at Toronto Fashion Week, deux fm (Anna Gilkerson has a new addition that doesn’t involve eco-fabric) and Turbine, who has […]
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Akshay Tyagi debuts his first solo fashion collection
Shaun Simpson Akshay Tyagi is in the middle of putting on snaps and sewing zippers, the tedious but crucial tasks he enjoys least about fashion design. He has 16 outfits to prepare in time for THAW, his first solo collection, which debuts Saturday, 7pm at Bus Stop Theatre. But this isn’t your typical runway show: […]
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AFW Recap: Runway memories
The second Atlantic Fashion Week was much more focused than October’s event. Gone are parties, and blending of retailers and national designers; instead, two nights highlighted local fashion designers. Perfect. Friday night, the Olympic Centre was almost completely full, as crowds gathered around the runway under lightly billowing white sheaths. Most of the five NSCAD […]
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Fashion forward
While the world anxiously speculates about a dire economy, and Judd Apatow’s posse smugly appears on the cover of Vanity Fair wearing nothing but undershirts and barrels, Nova Scotian fashion designers continue their creative business as usual. This weekend, at the second Atlantic Fashion Week, nine of those designers, plus a group of talented NSCAD […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week guide
October 30-November 2atlanticfashionweek.comTickets at ticketpro.ca or through any Ticketpro retail outlet. THURSDAYEmerging Designer ShowcaseMercedes-Benz (3585 Kempt), 8pm, $20Emerging designers and students, couture designers, tailors and jewellery designers. FRIDAYBlack & White Masquerade BallCunard Centre (961 Marginal), 9pm, $30 High-end retailer show with a focus on Canadian lines from Mills Brothers, Winchester’s and Debut. SATURDAYDesigner ShowcaseOlympic Hall […]