While driving along the highways that branch out of Toronto’s downtown, one witnesses a bewildering contrast of forces; nestled in rolling hills of wheat lie mammoth-sized shipping and logistic hubs.
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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.
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.
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.
the “moorcore aesthetic” industrial complex
In the past few years there has an indelible rise in gothic aesthetics. From Yorgos Lanthimos’ whimsical Poor Things, to Robert Eggers’ exploration of female desire in Nosferatu and his upcoming folk-horror take on medieval werewolf mythos The Werewulf, to the controversial Emerald Fennell adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” released earlier this year.
Precious Cargo: Nemiroff and Ksenia Schnaider Take London Fashion Week
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.
VALMORA: Craft, Fluidity, and the Quiet Renaissance of Canadian Fashion
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.
Liminul’s Favourite Creators of 2025: Best Dressed
If Part 1 of our favourite content creators list circled those reshaping fashion discourse, Part 2 is about those who understand dressing as authorship.