All the best Jeremy!

One of my all time favorite dresses from FW 09, great for Stevie Nicks ethereal moments

Jeremy and Frank

Best of luck to Jeremy Laing on the ANDAM announcement tomorrow.
A million things have happened in Canadian fashion and I am too busy with my new life in Monaco and my latest endeavor.
I will be back! Once in a while...

Jeremy Laing's amazing collection

Jeremy Laing SS11 Collection

Jeremy Laing the aesthete simply showed the best collection of his career. Mature, desirable, modern, sexy, and most importantly true to his take on fashion.

Also noting that Jamie Sin's jewelry pieces played the perfect accompanying role.

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It's Toronto Fashion Week!

photo by George Pimentel

Here an image from the Holt Renfrew media breakfast with designers Jeremy Laing, Mikhael Kale, Greta Constantine's Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill, Denis Gagnon and models wearing looks from their collection. They are all great designers working in Canada (Jeremy still lives in Toronto even

though he is on calendar for NYFW).

For more info on Toronto's fashion week you can go LG Fashion Week

The latest

Jeremy Laing's Fall 10 collection

Jeremy Laing introduces knits and furs in his latest collection, to much acclaim. One of his most complete and best collections to date. Not only is the collection inspired by Canada, but his Canadian collaborations were abundant, including prints by Calla, and a "music arrangement" by Terence Koh.

Canadian glove designer Daniel Storto known for his amazing glove creations has collaborated with Prabal Gurung on some very graphic gloves for Gurung's first collection.

Via style.com

Kaelen Farcombe

A new Canadian designer in the radar, Kaelen Farncombe presents her first collection. WWDcalls it a "sophisticated debut collection"

Via The Toronto Star

Rad Hourani 's black on black.

"MORPHABLE TIMELESS UNISEX COLLECTION TO CREATE

CHROMATICALLY DISTILLED SILHOUETTES"

Tommy Ton in Vogue. Literally.

The Canadian Olympic Team

And finally the winter Olympics are well under way in Vancouver, and yes there were some glitches but the city has scored high points on enviromental innovation taking many steps to eco-sustainability. On the fashion front let's not forget that the HBC team from The Hudson's Bay Company was in charge of the Canadian Olympic team's uniforms.

It feels interesting hearing Canada all the time in Paris.

Canadian NYFW 10/11 Preview

I am a tad late on my preview as New York Fashion Week is well on its way. Blame it on Snowpocalypse '10 even Paris is getting some of it and while north America thinks 1cm. of snow is normal I can't say enough about the mayhem it causes in the city of lights.

In any case here something on the Canadians in New York for this season.

Jeremy Laing

The above is a print inspired by moss growing on rain forest rocks and trees and the colour story is inspired by Haida art - an inspiration which is more intensely explored in other prints in the collection.

Expect some incredible Canadian collaborations at the show; the world of art and fashion could not collide in a better way. This will be Jeremy's closest collection to home.

Udpated: Vogue.com preview

Tommy Ton

Of course Tommy will be posting his photos for style.com but he was also included in the site's preview due to his collaboration with designer Reece Solomon of Reece Hudson.

Rad Hourani

Let the video speak for itself. Look out for an important Rad story on February 13th.

It is looking like a very exiting season already!

Canadians at Colette

I was looking for something on the Colette site when I realized that two Canadians were on their News sections, one in the StyleFemme (Mark Fast) , another one in Art (Owen Pallett) . I know the bigger news of the day is Rococo, but I was a bit more exited about the Canada in France thing, plus I love Owen. As a Canadian School of Fashion factoid let it be known that Owen played for Jeremy Laing's first New York presentation under his Final Fantasy name.

New logo for Jeremy Laing

Jeremy Laing gets a redesign and by that I mean his label has changed. The new typography was done by graphic designer Colin Bergh who is also responsible for the re-branding of the well known Toronto art gallery Clint Roenisch.

Here is what Jeremy had to say about the reason and inspiration for the change:

"I wanted something new! The previous logo was what we came up with when starting the business on a whim a few years ago and no longer seemed appropriate considering the evolution of the my collection and business. I had been wanting to change it for some time so I asked Colin Bergh, a graphic designer friend of mine to make me something clean and minimal but also classic, with an ageless quality and a lot of character. Colin created a typeface for me - Teoblad Roman - based on letters drawn by Aldus Manutius in 1499. This dovetailed nicely with the inspiration of my Spring 2010 collection, which started with me looking a renaissance perspective drawings, so it seemed like a good time to launch the new logo"

Canadian Winter Coats

Erdem

Jeremy Laing

Todd Lynn

Pink Tartan

Smythe

Lida Baday

Comrags

Harricana par Mariouche

Krane

Klaxon Howl

Fur traders dressed in the original Canadian Trapper look

No Canadian fashion story would be complete without talking about the Hudson's Bay Company, the oldest commercial company in North America and one of the oldest in the world, the Canadian department store had its roots in fur trading in the 17th century.

Last year The Bay under their HBC label was in charge of the this year's Canadian team uniforms for theWinter Olympics in Vancouver, as well as the luxurious redesign of The St Regis Room, considered one of the country's first designer destinations which carries exclusively collections like Balmain and Givenchy, as well as a great range of younger designer like Erdem and Calla. (I was of course obliged to include these names).

To celebrate the launch of their newest product range -the Hudson's Bay Company Collection- The Bay commissioned a series of Canadian designers to do one of a kind coats featuring the iconic HBC point blanket.

Todd Lynn, Jeremy Laing and Erdem were in the mix that included well established Canadian household names like Pink Tartan, Smythe, Lida Baday, Comrags, Harricana par Mariouche, Krane and Klaxon Howl.

via: Glamour and Glitter

Canadian School of Fashion Chart

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The Canadians in Fashion Now

New York

Jeremy Laing

Rad Hourani

London

Erdem

Mark Fast

Todd Lynn

Paris

Calla Haynes

Nicolas Andreas Taralis

Here are the young designers of Canadian origin that are in the world of fashion. They do not belong to a school of design but are certainly building their brands internationally around the same time (excluding Lynn and Taralis whom have been around for a while). I would like to know if I am wrong -do not know a lot about Canadian fashion design in the 60s or 70s- but I think this is the first time designers from this country are having a moment in fashion internationally in such large numbers. Canada constantly has a moment with models, but with designers this would be it.