LG Fashion Weak, Spring 2011

As tradition holds, my most fashionable friend and I ventured to the Heritage Centre, Exhibition Place to catch Toronto's trendiest @ LG Fashion Week, Spring 2011 Collections last night. This year's cliched theme: The Style of Power - A clever switch from last season's The Power of Style... are we already running out of creative fuel in our 12th year?

Unlike last year we arrived fashionably early and caught Rachel Mara's Spring line, "Stolen." The Winnipeg native delivered a collection of flouncy silk and stripes. Wearable and boring. However, I was kept on my toes with the tunes, impressed with the choices: Hot Topic Le Tigre, Gold Guns Girls Metric and Mass Romantic The New Pornographers.

My whole love for fashion sparked with the sheer theatricality of John Galliano and his bizarro themes oozing outlandish creativity. I adore the shock factor, the artistic boundaries forever extended beyond anything you could have ever imagined and nothing more beautiful and more impossible to perceive or deem realistic, and yet it's a real life dream come true - impossible turns itself inside out and into the form of a Christian Dior runway show. Mara's collection was lovely sure, but it's no reason to fall in love at a fashion show, not for me at least. 

The main event of the evening was Mr. Joe Fresh, however, we opted to get caricatures sketched and our makeup did at the L'Oreal hair and makeup station, instead. Oh and a photograph with Ken.

After the show we made our way over to Parts & Labour for DIScONNECT: A MEDIUM EXPERIMENT.


It went something like this:


PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS INVITE ONLY HOT ON THE HEELS OF CURRENT TREND, FASHION VIDEOS ARE NOW MORE FLUID THAN EVER. PHOTOGRAPHERS REALIZE THEIR ROLE AS 'DIRECTOR' BUT INSTEAD OF A SCRIPT FOR ACTORS, IT IS A WHOLISTIC SCRIPT FOR GREATER ELEMENTS TO COME TOGETHER AND INTERPRET DESIGNS AND LINES IN UNIQUE WAYS THAT MAKE YOU, THE VIEWER, WANT TO EXPERIENCE LIFE ON A HIGHER PLANE. THIS IS OUR 'DISCONNECT'--OUR INABILITY TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF WHAT IT PRESENTED. CLOTHING, TEXTURE, DESIGN, LINES, LACK THEREOF--WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL? FASHION, SO LONG CONSIDERED FRIVOLOUS, EXCESSIVE, MEANINGLESS...SO WE CHALLENGE OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS, THE EYES OF TORONTO FASHION, TO STEP OUTSIDE OF THEIR MEDIUM OF RECOGNITION AND INTO FILM AND CREATE MOVING IMAGES THAT CONVEY THE THEME OF 'DISCONNECT' WHILE INFUSING THE FASHION ELEMENTS THAT DRIVE THE INDUSTRY. AND WE INVITE YOU, THE VIEWER, TO STEP OUTSIDE OF THE FAMILIAR AND EXPERIENCE 5 SHORT FASHION FILMS, INTERPRETING THIS THEME BY: MIGUEL JACOBMAXIME BOCKENRENATA KAVEH MOO KING & CARLY BANGS WITH PERFORMACE BY TRUST @ PARTS & LABOUR || 1566 QUEEN STREET W || TORONTO ON || WED OCTOBER 20 2010 ||  S | TART: 10:00 PM SC | REENING: 10:30 PM TRUST | PER | FORMS: 11:00 PM EN | D: 12:00 AM  IN | FO P&L


Since I ranted on my lust for Mr. Galliano - here's a glimpse of the first runway show I fell in love with via this masterful genius.