Minimidimaxi Magazine

David Dixon shows us his fun side for spring/summer 2008, cutting loose on some of the themes that made him a Canadian fashion darling.

Andy Thê-Anh gives us ethereal wisps and aquiline silhouettes for spring/summer 2008, fresh looks that don’t claim to reinvent the wheel.

Pink Tartan puts together a sharp, slightly futuristic ensemble for fall/winter 2007, bringing fresh elements to the Canadian fashion.

Joeffer Caoc hardens the look for fall/winter 2007, while at the same time, confusingly plugs into Technicolor.

Izzy Camilleri ministers to her faithful for fall/winter 2007 with a collection in sinister black, banking on the allure of sleek lines and batgirl chic.

Andy touts a slew of midnight black outfits for fall/winter 2007, exhibiting a darker side that we’ve always suspected.

Zoran Dobric gives his hand-painted couture fantasies commercial viability for fall/winter 2007.

[Menswear] With guns blazing, Bustle is on the warpath to make their mark on hunter chic for fall/winter 2007.

Inspired by a love affair cut short by an Antarctic expedition forty years ago, and dedicated to the fight against global warming, Pat McDonagh’s 40th anniversary show.

We were invited to a fireside chat with David Dixon for his fall/winter 2007 show at Toronto’s L’Oréal Fashion Week, though not the kind that you think.

In their fall/winter 2007 collection, Comrags makes the case that the sexiness of black lies not in black itself, but in its finish.

If anyone knows that power lurks in the darkest places, it’s Canadian design sensation Paul Hardy.

Zoran Dobric takes us on a dreamy trip to the Far East for his spring/summer 2007 collection, and brings Japanese esthetic and philosophy.

Claudette Floyd gives a modern, urban twist to the Southern Belle look of the 1960’s for her spring/summer 2007 collection.

Dean Horn shares both the ingredients and the goodies with us for his spring/summer 2007 start.

A romantic bug has bitten Canadian fashion in the behind, and it looks like Pink Tartan’s spring summer 2007 outing is the latest willing casualty.

The country club look may be catching on this season like a bad cold, and though Bustle is definitely riding that train with their spring/summer 2007 collection.

Arthur Mendonça’s spring/summer 2007 collection marches to a military drum, albeit a romanticized one.

Andy Thê-Anh returns to glam with a spring/summer 2007 collection composed of killer silhouettes in glittering fabrics

It’s unanimous—Marie Saint Pierre was one of the highlights of Montreal Fashion Week spring/summer 2007, wowing the crowd with killer shapes not to be found on anyone else’s runway.

There are fashion companies and then there are fashion designers. Joeffer Caoc, spring/summer 2007 has proven yet again, is indubitably the latter.

Izzy Camilleri’s spring/summer 2007 collection is all about texture, one that aims, with mixed results, to be as stimulating to the eye as to the touch.

Spring/summer 2007, a sad ode to memory and loss, allows the designer to focus on the basics, and to remind us why he’s one of Canada’s best.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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