11th Annual Défilé Logis Rose-Virginie

When you attend as many as four fashion events in a week and no fewer than three in a month, over the course of at least one year, a lot of them tend to blend together in your mind. We have a surprising amount of fashion designers in Montreal, especially given the textile industry's decline here but, with that many fashion shows staged on a regular basis, you start to see the same designers, and sometimes the same pieces, over and over again. Once in a while, you attend a show and you are highly entertained and left craving more. It could be the production level, the presentation of the garments, the designs themselves, the way guests and media...

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Melissa Nepton's SS15 Show

On October 29th, I had the pleasure of attending Melissa Nepton's SS15 show, while on assignment for Naiad. You can check out my piece at The Models' Coach. Please keep in mind that, when I write for The Models' Coach, I do so in order to inform models and so emphasis is placed on technicalities, styling, casting, etc. ...

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D Moment: SS15 Collection Previews from Montreal Up-and-Comers.

(Posted on Wordpress October 22nd, 2014. And this is the last one to be shipped over here from Wordpress.) Last Wednesday, I made it out to Rosemont, for day two of the second annual D Moment event, hosted by Mode Montréal. I missed the first day as I was busy bouncing from one Koodo store to the next, until someone finally sent me broken phone in for repair. This is also why the photos seen here are not at par with the ones I usually post. It takes a lot to embarrass me but pulling out the Galazy III Mini I had borrowed from Koodo to take photos at a fashion event was, at the very least, uncomfortable. D Moment provides local up-and-coming...

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FlashMode: A Fall Fashion Event in Old Montréal

(Posted on Wordpress on October 3rd, 2014) For almost a year, the only capacity under which I had been covering local events was for a blog directed at models, in an effort to inform them about local events. While I appreciate the opportunity to not only immerse myself in the Montreal fashion scene but to write about it, no matter the context, I must say that I'm quite happy with my decision to start covering shows for my own blog, as well. It is therefore with seemingly new eyes and an open mind that, on October first, I made my way to FlashMode, at the Darling Foundry, in Old Montreal. The invite-only event drew attention to...

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Summer Recap. Part Three: When a Door Closes

(Posted on Wordpress September 29th, 2014) When I returned from Cape Cod, my employer informed me that our persistence had paid off and that my position would finally become what it should have been from the start: A permanent one with benefits that offered job security. We had to follow official protocol, of course, and open the position up to externals, but it was just going to be a formality. I told my boss that if someone walked in and managed to wow her enough, during their half hour together, that she thought they should have the job that I had been occupying for the last twenty months, then they surely deserved it. I took a week...

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Summer Recap. Part Two: The Last Few Days in Cape Cod.

(Posted on Wordpress, September 23rd, 2014) The kids, by far, enjoyed Coast Guard Beach the most. I must say that their mom did, too, despite having had her ass handed to her by the Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes getting smacked in back of the head by a large wave, causing your ears to ring and your vision to blur for a few moments is just what you need to start feeling alive again. August 7th: On the way to Coast Guard Beach Beach evacuation due to incoming storm. On our last full day in Cape Cod, we boarded a ferry at Hyannis and headed for Martha's Vineyard. Moments after disembarking, I was in love and vowed to return...

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