Funmi Odeniyi learned to sew by studying her family members cranking fabric through machines—just like the Italian master of glamour and the bias-cut, Gianni Versace, learned the craft from his dressmaker mother. Odeniyi launched her label, the Dartmouth-based Michnat Fashion House, while pregnant—just like Paris’s 1970s queen of knitwear Sonia Rykiel. Her favourite things to […]
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Maggie Jayne spring/summer 2017 collection launches tonight
The 2017 spring/summer collection from Halifax-based designer Maggie Jayne launches tonight at Lion and Bright. The Maggie Jayne clothing line is a collaboration between locations: Halifax and fair trade garment manufacturers in Pushkar, India. The one-woman operation is run by Maggie MacCormick, who travels between Halifax and India to oversee production. The new collection features […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week’s strong finish
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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Mayann Francis and the fashion secrets of a role model
The Dress: Mayann Francis and Gary Markle in conversation Thursday, Sept. 29 The Dress: Mayann Francis and the Call to Serve To November 27 Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue free Sitting on a black bench, surrounded by accent lighting that seems to add extra drama to what she’s saying, Mayann Francis is tackling big […]
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Local fashions plus Jeanne Bekker
Prepare for an epic Epoch. At the Saturday night fashion gala, members of the senior class of NSCAD’s fashion/textile department will showcase their spring collections on a 100-foot runway at the school’s Port Campus. Designers and lines include Toban Ralston’s line BLKWRK, Leanne Hansen’s Tatamagouche Pines (pictured), Maggie J. MacCormick, Chelsie Coles, Matthew Brown and […]
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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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Holiday fashion special
Cute as an Elf? Buttoned up like Scrooge? Before you head out, click through our slideshow for local styles that reminded us of our favourite holiday films.
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Video: Katrina Tuttle’s spring/summer collection
For those of you still whining that Halifax is a fashion wasteland, it’s time to get over it. A few weeks ago, national fashion media were losing their knee-high boots over Katrina Tuttle‘s spring 2010 collection at Toronto Fashion Week (here she is on Fashion Television). Twenty-one-year-old Tuttle made history as the first Atlantic Canadian […]
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Video: Off the Cuff finale
Despite the threat of more rain, a large group of style-minded Haligonians gathered this afternoon at Historic Properties for the Off the Cuff fashion competition and show. After the outdoor runway was wiped off (thank god—MC Eureka Love was sporting a pair of mile-high heels), the show kicked off with a collection by Brandt Eisner. […]
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Off the Cuff rocks out and dresses local musicians
Winner week three: Akshay Tyagi’s reconstructed outerwear. Photo: Shaun Simpson If you haven’t made it out to an Off the Cuff fashion competition yet, strap on those gladiator sandals and go to Argyle Fine Art this Sunday at 1pm for the final elimination round before the big fashion show on September 13. This week’s theme […]
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Off The Cuff with Argyle’s fashion police
Make it work, people. As Project Runway enthusiasts cry into their designer hankies over the fashion competition’s uncertain future (still no word whether the TV show will make it through its legal business—-for once in your life Mr. Weinstein, do the right thing!), there is a much better, homegrown solution that will get you off the couch: Off The Cuff. Hosted by Argyle Fine Art, the four-week competition pits local designers against each other in a series of weekly challenges. Each Sunday in July (starting on July 5) at 1pm, there’s a mini-fashion show at the gallery, where the final