Contemporary image culture is often described through excess, whether through Guy Debord’s conception of the spectacle, Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra, or contemporary discourse surrounding the endless recursive circulation of algorithmic media.
Cody Rooney
MRKNTN Reimagines SAINT-MAURICE Through a Gothic Dystopia
Last September, Montréal-based label MRKNTN unveiled SAINT-MAURICE, a collection rooted in the textures, silhouettes, and cultural mythology of Québec’s working-class identity.
Fashion Art Toronto’s SS26 Season Turns the City Into a Runway
Contemporary fashion weeks no longer function solely as industry-facing runway calendars. Increasingly, they operate as temporary cultural ecosystems: part nightlife circuit, part installation program, part retail environment, part performance space, part content machine.
Inside RCHIVE and the Rise of Toronto’s Own Fashion Week
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 REDEFINES “SEXY” ON HER OWN TERMS
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.
ISECAI’s “Metamorphosis” Rejects Perfection in Favour of Process
In a fashion landscape increasingly defined by polish, completion, and algorithmic refinement, Toronto-based ISECAI’s latest presentation proposes something far less resolved.
The Spring Accessories Edit
Spring accessories tend to promise ease. Lighter fabrics, fewer layers, an assumed effortlessness that suggests everything should fall into place without much thought.
Celebrating Culture with Compassion: Eat Pray Love’s 20th Anniversary
“Passata Remoto” is an Italian term for events or actions in the remote past that may not necessarily hold relevance in the present.
Charlotte Cardin Ignites Pop with Hypnotic New Single The Way We Touch
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.
AMARA: The Body as Ritual
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.