For years, Toronto fashion has existed in a strange contradiction. The city possesses an enormous concentration of creative talent, stylists, photographers, designers, musicians, and image-makers, yet its infrastructure has often lagged behind its ambition.
Kalika didn’t build her career by playing it safe. Born Mia Kalika Rosello, the French artist first appeared publicly on Nouvelle Star before stepping away from that trajectory entirely.
In a fashion landscape increasingly defined by polish, completion, and algorithmic refinement, Toronto-based ISECAI’s latest presentation proposes something far less resolved.
Spring accessories tend to promise ease. Lighter fabrics, fewer layers, an assumed effortlessness that suggests everything should fall into place without much thought.
After two years away from the fashion system following his departure from Maison Margiela, John Galliano is returning through an unexpected partnership with Zara.
“Passata Remoto” is an Italian term for events or actions in the remote past that may not necessarily hold relevance in the present.
Montréal’s own Charlotte Cardin continues her remarkable international ascent with the release of The Way We Touch, a smoldering new single accompanied by a striking music video that deepens the singer’s signature fusion of intimacy, sensuality, and cinematic pop.
In DESIRA’s AMARA, the body becomes a threshold, wherein language recedes, narrative dissolves, and what remains is a symbolic choreography of gestures, textures, and psychic states that unfold like a ritual.
In the past few years there has an indelible rise in gothic aesthetics. From Yorgos Lanthimos’ whimsical Poor Things, to Robert Eggers’ exploration of female desire in Nosferatu and his upcoming folk-horror take on medieval werewolf mythos The Werewulf, to the controversial Emerald Fennell adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” released earlier this year.
For decades, Toronto’s fashion scene has occupied an uneasy position within the global industry. The city produces a steady stream of designers, stylists, and photographers, yet its infrastructure has historically lagged behind the scale of its creative talent.