BC fashion
Sooke: Fine art you can wear, It’s locally designed, it’s handmade, it’s squeaky green and it’s gorgeous
You know you’re in an arty crowd at a fashion show when the ornate felted jackets get the biggest cheers, the soundtrack is vintage jazz instead of blaring techno and the audience claps politely as ensembles leave the runway rather than enter. The Artz4Fashion show Saturday night was a new event at this year’s 24th [...]
Douglas Coupland pops up in Gastown: West Vancouver writer, artist and designer’s new line for Roots is on display on Powell Street until the end of the month
Doug Coupland seems to be popping up everywhere. He’s part of a new show of modern artists reimagining Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He recently unveiled a very cool sculpture, Digital Orca, just west of the new convention centre. He was even invited to the Los Angeles premiere of the new Twilight movie, [...]
Nanaimo photographer brings talent together with new group:Facebook VIMP site allows Vancouver Island artists to share skills
After searching for a way to connect the models, photographers, stylists and makeup artists of Vancouver Island, Lila Parks turned to social networking. The Nanaimo photographer decided to create a Facebook group to provide a place for artists to network with one another. In December, Parks developed Vancouver Island Models and Photographers, otherwise known as [...]
Kelowna woman’s designs scheduled to hit runway for Montreal Fashion Week
Kelowna’s Nicole Obidowski has sketched, threaded and stitched her way to one of the most exclusive fashion events in Canada. Last year she submitted her designs to the Telio Design Competition, as part of her coursework for the fashion design program at Vancouver Community College. Judges were taken by the casual sportswear sketches she put [...]
Fashion footwear grounded in Coast Salish art
Over the past year, using sharpies and pencils, Louie Gong has transformed shoes popular with the surf and skate crowd into culturally inspired works of art. Gong, of mixed-race heritage and raised on Indian reservations in Washington and British Columbia, combines the traditional crescents and form lines of Coast Salish art with the contemporary styles [...]
Historical fashion show and lecture inspires young designers
Internationally renowned costume historian, Ivan Sayers, will address VCAD’s fashion design students and invited guests on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Sayers will be presenting “Costumes of the 20th Century” covering the changing trends and styles of fashion from the 1890s through to the 1990s. Ivan Sayers is well known in Vancouver’s fashion community for his [...]
