Minimidimaxi Magazine

Andy Thê-Anh is back, and this time it’s only Andy. The simplified name brings simplified clothes, as he toted out a commercially slick spring collection.

Staging a wild cabaret sideshow in Montreal to show off his spring-summer 2006 couture, Antonio Ortega reminded us why he is the go-to guy for over-the-top couture excess.

Aqualara puts together a sprightly swim collection for 2006, showing that a little colour can go a long way.

When tried-and-true slickness is tampered with at a fashion show, fans can either run screaming to the exit or they can try to appreciate the experiments.

Canadian sisters Caillianne, Samantha and Chloe Beckerman set our imaginations on fire with their spring-summer 2006 line.

Caroline Frenette debut collection for spring-summer 2006 is slightly too sophisticated to be chalked up to beginner bang.

Sisters Stefania and Maria Cristina Di Simone have a more demure take on swim fashion than most of their compatriots.

With the XOXO and Skechers Beach collections, Christina shows that there was much room for play between the extremes

Danier brought their spring-summer 2006 leather finery to an eager outdoor audience at Montreal’s Jaguar Fashion and Design Festival.

It’s no secret that When David Dixon puts a collection together, one of its biggest drawing point is the thematic unity, and the spring-summer 2006 collection

For women’s ready-to-wear, there is a weaving of themes that only a designer as style-sensitive as Gagnon can muster.

The joy of watching a debut collection can sometimes lie in witnessing innovation, and other times in seeing familiar shapes freshened up.

One of Canada’s ambassadors to the fashion world came home to roost at Montreal Fashion Week, delivering a spring-summer 2006 that met with mixed reactions.

Fairyesque gave an enchanted lesson on the importance of measured whimsy in their debut 2006 spring-summer showing at Montreal Fashion Week.

The label’s new collection gives clear-cut, sultry options for spring-summer 2006.

For dresses dripping with glitter and grace, Izzy Camilleri is the one to turn to. Spring-summer 2006 looks like it’s going to be one roaring ball.

Jason Malto’s spring-summer 2006 debut collection uses razor-sharp shoulders to create a strong but feminine silhouette.

If Joeffer Caoc’s spring-summer 2006 collection can be said to celebrate anything, then it is the art of the dress.

Forever devoted to blending leatherwear and ready-to-wear, designers Elisa Dahan and Eran Elfassy blur those boundaries even further with Mackage’s spring-summer 2006 oeuvre.

Welcome to a night at the opera with Marie Saint-Pierre, who will be entertaining spring guests in three acts.

If white lace signified propriety in Victorian times, Morales uses it to fashion chic transgression.

Just as Hollywood has a sleeper hit every season, spring-summer 2006 was almost stolen by one Christian Chenail and his Muse as we dozed under our sunglasses.

On & On écolo chic may be one of the few labels in Canada who recycle clothes, not ideas.

Parasuco gave the Montreal crowd ample reason to shoot while unveiling a sprawling spring-summer 2006 urbanwear collection that leaves no stone unturned.

Legendary Canadian designer Pat McDonagh sizzled majestically at Toronto Fashion Week, putting on one of her tightest collections yet for spring-summer 2006.

For spring-summer 2006, Paul Hardy gives us women’s ready-to-wear that fuses the impossible.

For spring-summer 2006, Pink Tartan shows us just how many sprightly silhouettes it can offer for what is clearly this label’s favourite calendar season.

Can you offer everything under the fashion spotlight and still deliver a marketable collection? Rosa Costanzo sets out to answer that question.

Rudsak gets back to basics with their spring-summer 2006 leather collection, using ice cream pastels that make you want to reach out and taste them.

Having purveyed designer swimwear for 20 years now, Chantal Lévesque is able to take some risks with the venerable Shan