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.
Paris Fashion Week is no stranger to spectacle, but few shows this season felt as ideologically pointed as Matières Fécales’ Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, The One Percent.
Fashion moves in cycles of revelation. Each season, certain objects break through the surface tension of the runway and announce a shift that is already in motion.
Lady Gaga’s relationship with Alexander McQueen has always been more than celebrity styling, it’s a creative symbiosis between a pop auteur and a fashion house built on performance, futurity, and the spectacle of becoming.
Fine Chaos opened CIFF66 with ARA SOLIS, a sharply staged AW26 collection set inside The Dome, the fictional corporate city that anchors the brand’s growing narrative universe.
Since the rise of 3D design, artists and designers have been drawn to the strange, uncanny potential of digital materiality. Toronto-based designer Kerry Xu of Automara takes that impulse further with the Husk Collection, a sculptural line shaped by contamination, adaptation, and the tension between the human body and the digital processes that reimagine it.
Inside a former garment factory in Montreal’s Chabanel district, Rebecca-Jo Dunham-Baruchel sits across from Matteo Valmora, creative director of Montreal-based label Valmora, and names something that feels immediately true.
In recent seasons, fashion has become increasingly preoccupied with explanation. Collections arrive freighted with language before the clothes have a chance to exist on their own terms, accompanied by manifestos, mood boards, and conceptual frameworks that often feel more polished than some of the garments themselves.
If Part 1 of our favourite content creators list circled those reshaping fashion discourse, Part 2 is about those who understand dressing as authorship.
Fashion creators in 2025 are no longer defined by fits alone. The figures shaping the conversation now operate as commentators, analysts, performers, translators and community cultivators, people who don’t just wear clothes but explain and emblemize why they matter, who they exclude, and how meaning circulates around them online.