Fashion, Culture, Art, Montreal, Toronto
Trashing Clothing, an LGBT Ready-to-Wear Palestinian fashion brand was founded with a unique fusion of political satire, sexiness, kitsch culture, and wit. The brand, whose work conveys both beauty and agony, aims to represent the Palestinian Peoples capacity to endure adversity. In exploring and playing with the concept of what is deemed “cheap” or “trashy”…
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Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has unveiled his first “collaboration platform” concept project that will feature a store opening. The “Wildside Yohji Yamamoto” project emphasizes the brand’s distinctive aesthetics on a digital platform that showcases exclusive partnerships in fashion, design, and the arts with companies like Dr. Martens, Ambush, and Needles. The “Wildside, Yohji Yamamoto” initiative…
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In September 2020, the plumb christened their newly renovated gallery space in Toronto’s St. Clair West neighbourhood with exhibition Pits, Seeds. Showcasing work by their fifteen founders Pits, Seeds was the first of a whopping fourteen public-facing projects the plumb has mounted in less than two years. As member Amanda Boulos put it, “This past…
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Samuel Arsenault-Brassard is a virtual architect and artist living and working in Montreal. His work, some of which is currently exhibited at Montreal’s ELLEPHANT gallery explores light, shadow and form all through the use of virtual reality technology. In addition to his work for ELLEPHANT, Arsenault-Brassard has recently collaborated with buried deep, and Lignes de…
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In 1941 the prominent American architect Wallace Neff was shaving his face. Standing at the bathroom sink in one of the grand Spanish Colonial homes for which had garnered him immense popularity and created his name as an architect Ness’ eye was drawn to a bubble of soap. It was from this bubble – produced…
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Re-conceptualizing how public space is perceived today in tandem with how they are envisioned has to do not only with the future of a city but also with its past.
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