This past weekend Fashion Art Toronto presented its SS25 edition of 1664 Fashion Week, marking the platform’s historic 20th anniversary with a charged slate of designers who blurred the line between subversion and sophistication.
FASHION & BEAUTY
SAFI Creatives’ Quiet Tailoring at Rchive TOFW SS25
To speak of fashion in Canada is often to speak of the periphery. Not spatially, but semiotically. So much of the runway here is caught between emulation and longing, between the urge to participate and the need to differentiate.
Girls to the Front: Emerson Isa’s Riot Grrrl-Infused Launch
On May 17, the Lower East Side in Manhattan pulsed with femme-laced grit as Emerson Isa launched her debut collection, Girls to the Front, with an event at Pianos, a storied venue on Ludlow Street.
1664 Fashion Week: The Iconic Accessories Showcase
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.
DIRT SS25 at the Filmores Hotel
There’s a particular vibration in DIRT’s SS25 collection that resists reduction, an almost anti-linguistic quality that moves less like a narrative than a texture.
Fashion Art Toronto Turns 20
This May, Fashion Art Toronto marks two decades with its most expansive programming to date—a full month of runway shows, site-specific installations, boutique collaborations, and citywide pop-ups.
Dupe or Twin: The AI Fashion Model Creeps In
It seems we were expected to clap and cheer and act impressed by the fact that in a meeting of the editorial staff at Business of Fashion (BoF), only a “slight majority” correctly guessed which image of model Mathilda Gvarliani, provided by the Swedish multinational retailer H&M, was a photograph and which was generated by artificial intelligence.
Matières Fécales’ Fearless Paris Fashion Week Debut
Paris has long been a crucible for fashion’s most subversive auteurs, yet few debuts have felt as seismic, as wholly transgressive, as the arrival of Matières Fécales onto the hallowed runways of Fashion Week.
LIVE: The Aesthetics of Digital Intimacy
In an era oversaturated with digital imagery, curation has become its own form of performance. LIVE explores this paradox—where spontaneity and construction collide, dissolving the boundaries between authenticity and artifice.
“Beauty Is Also Gore”: Venus Superstar on the Violence of Aesthetics
Venus Superstar moves within a space where beauty and horror coalesce, entangle, shift, and dissolve into one another. The performer, part drag queen, part performance artist, part auteur” hailing from the San Francisco underground, is the type of queer creative whose work is as much passion as it is intrinsic to their very being.