Fashion Art Toronto has always been less about polish and more about possibility. It is one of the few platforms in the country where designers can experiment without the weight of commercial expectation, where collections feel closer to performance, gesture, or emotional artifact than seasonal product.
With “ABSOLUTE,” Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus transforms trauma into a stark, sculptural language. The project began during a period when Dzhus, having fled war and survived family abuse, entered what seemed like a safe chapter that quickly unraveled.
There is a particular kind of jacket you see everywhere right now. On the metro, at the office, in line at the café: taped seams, matte shell, bungee cords cinched just enough to signal you know the difference between “water-resistant” and “20K waterproof.”
For Spring–Summer 2026, MRKNTN returns with SAINT-MAURICE, a collection rooted in the mythology, labour, and memory embedded along the Québec river of the same name.
Late afternoon light stripes the concrete at Lignes De Fuite studios on a rather hot late September afternoon. Pattern paper curls on a cutting table; a hem is pinned and unpinned; someone laughs because the zipper refuses to obey.
There’s a new strain of fashion fantasy taking shape in New York, one that trades the sterile futurism of the last decade for something more emotional, more theatrical, more human.
Few eras have been mythologized as much as New York in the 1970s, the decade suspended between the liberation of Stonewall and the devastation of AIDS, when queerness thrived in the city’s abandoned spaces.
Semaine de la Mode Montréal FW25 unfolded less like a week of runways than a palimpsest, layers of history, material memory, and cultural contradiction inscribed into each collection.
At Place Vendôme this past week, Matières Fécales unveiled Hannah—their sophomore Paris Fashion Week collection, and a love letter to co-founder Hannah Rose Dalton.
When Demna Gvasalia dropped his first Gucci collection this week, titled La Famiglia, it did not arrive on the runway in Milan.