Minimidimaxi Magazine

Apparently, designing a glam-rock Ford Fusion to auction on E-Bay for breast cancer research wasn’t enough: Andy Thê-Anh also had new styles to motor down the runway for fall/winter 2006.

Designer Caroline Frenette infuses Charlie’s fall/winter 2006-07 collection with more than a touch of luxury.

According to Chulo Pony, fall/winter 2006-07 is a time to let your hair down, for cutesy layering, and for belief in the philosophy of fun.

There was no way anyone was going to walk out of Cluc’s fall/winter 2006 fashion show at Montreal Fashion Week without the distinct feeling of having been to the Land of Oz and back.

Comrags trotted out a sleek and streamlined look for fall/winter 2006, yet wasn’t afraid of spoiling their time-tested formula by adding some innovative touches.

David Dixon’s fall/winter 2006 collection melds Scandinavian design with cool Canadian to results that are truly original.

If our biggest problem was deciding whether Dinh Bà is better puffy or lithe, then maybe the label had something going for it as it unveiled its fall/winter 2006 collection.

Yves-Jean Lacasse reveals “Harlequin” for fall/winter 2006, a whimsical collection that takes us to the edge of the designer’s playful lunacy and back.

In an over-the-top show featuring cutesy play-acting and dramatic narrative, Fairyesque unveiled their fall/winter 2006 collection to a tickled Toronto audience.

Fun and flirty are the buzzwords for Fantine’s fall/winter 2006 collection, one that apparently predicts balmy weather in the depths of January.

First Nations fashion: Denise Brillion Hill, Bill Helin, Ronald Everett

Ginch: noun. Montreal slang for tightey-whiteys. Recently used in association with Gonch, and cool fashion hidden where the sun doesn’t-but should-shine.

If Blade Runner had been directed by Fellini, this is the costuming we might’ve gotten. The surprise hit of Toronto Fashion Week, Izzy Camilleri shows how fierce and sophisticated a fall/winter 2006 collection can be.

The theme for Joeffer Caoc’s fall/winter 2006 collection was as beautiful as was foreboded.

Eran Elfassy and Elisa Dahan get funky with silhouettes and styles for fall/winter 2006, challenging our ideas of what a Mackage coat should be, with mixed results.

If avant-garde designer Renata Morales can be said to crash the Canadian women’s ready-to-wear party, she does it with class in her fall /winter 2006-07 collection.

Romance is in the air for Muse’s fall/winter 2006 collection, though the attempt at sobriety may have been foiled by the irresistible call to be, in true Muse form, just a little over-the-top.

Mylène B delivers such a simple and classic look for fall/winter 2006-07, that we can forgive the overall 80’s flavouring.

For fall/winter 2006, Nadya Toto trots out examples of the different the’s that have made her a fixture on the Canadian fashion stage.

Billy Idol’s Nice Day For a White Wedding might have been sung for Nevik’s fall/winter 2006 show, but the misguided nuptial glitz wasn’t white, and it wasn’t a nice day.

Fall/winter 2006 is a randy outing for Pat McDonagh, the seminal Canadian designer who’s been delighting and surprising us with her creative genius of thirty years.

I don’t think anyone was expecting to see East Coast bad boy Ashley MacIsaac opening Pink Tartan’s fall/winter 2006 show with his manic fiddling, or to see him wearing Pink Tartan.

Rudsak delivers a tight collection for fall/winter 2006, brandishing black as both weapon and lure.

Simon Chang, Canada’s ageless, self-styled fashion maverick, presented a colourful though overdone collection for fall/winter 2006 as part of CIMM’s 25th anniversary.

If you’ve ever wondered how many different versions there can be of the little black dress, then you’ll love Symbiose’s fall/winter 2006 collection.

Fashion hounds have a great reason to wish the summer away— to get into one of Tavan and Mitto’s minimalist masterpiece’s for fall/winter 2006-07. This sleek collection, named Emilia, is a charmer.