The 1664 Iconic Accessories Showcase, presented during Fashion Art Toronto this month, brings together three of Canada’s most promising emerging designers for a singular runway event curated by Montreal’s influential fashion incubator Lignes de Fuite. Known for fostering experimental fashion and hybrid aesthetics, LDF’s ON SHOW series returns to Toronto May 30th to spotlight bold and genre-defying talent: Saint-Isidore, Rachel Sudbury, and Beautopie.
In anticipation of the event, LIMINUL has collaborated with 1664 and Lignes de Fuite to produce a visual prelude; an editorial imagining Rebecca-Jo Dunham, resident Canadian fashion connoisseur, as the down town fashion protagonist moving through Toronto’s layered terrain: the corporate, the subterranean, and the absurd. Across each vignette, she wears the designers’ garments with her essential fashion accessory in tow, a blue 1664 beer bottle reframed through custom holders designed by each label. Less product than proposition, these sculptural carriers act as miniature manifestos, translating brand DNA into objet, exuding both form and function.
Raphaël Viens, the designer behind Saint Isidore, brings a deeply referential and conceptual approach to garment-making. A staple of LDF’s On Show series, his collections draw from ritual, distortion, and the emotional residue of historic form. Silhouettes are interrupted and reformed: asymmetric, layered, sometimes with an intentionally unfinished edge. His custom 1664 accessory, a leather skirt fitted with a side-release buckle, operates as both adornment and constraint, merging formality with subversion in a way that mirrors his broader practice.
Where Viens builds around collapse and structure, Julia Beauparlant of Beautopie moves from the inside out. Rooted in a slow fashion ethos and grounded in one-of-a-kind pieces, Beautopie designs for the radically femme. Her garments resist fast consumption, favouring tactile exploration and non-linear construction. Her beer holder, here, is a melange of fishnets and leather, juxtaposed against metallics. Like her garments, it is steeped in a logic of femininity deconstructed and reassembled.
If Viens builds tension and Beauparlant dreams in fabric and fantasy, Rachel Sudbury intervenes with a different kind of clarity. Based between Vancouver and Montreal, her work is driven by humour, imperfection, and resistance to aesthetic sanitization. Constructed in a converted motel-atelier, her garments blur the line between satire and sincerity, reflecting her neurodivergent lens and refusal of fashion’s conventional polish. Her bespoke accessory, a leather leg brace doubling as a beer holster, is both kink and camp. It’s Sudbury’s practice distilled: irreverent, crafted, and oddly exact.
In collaboration with 1664 Canada, Lignes de Fuite, and Rebecca-Jo Dunham; we present a speculative styling of what Canadian fashion can become when experimentation is met with platform, when absurdity is taken seriously, and when designers are trusted to speak in their own visual language. These aren’t future names. They’re already fluent.
The 1664 Fashion Week Iconic Accessories Showcase is May 30th at 1664 Fashion Week. Buy your tickets now.
Team Credits
Cody Rooney is the Editor in Chief and senior contributor at LIMINUL.
He is a PhD candidate, digital content specialist, writer, editor, multi-media artist, and photographer.