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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Holiday gifting always seems easier in theory. In practice, most of us end up circling the same familiar ideas, hoping they’ll feel personal enough to land.