Montreal Fashion Week: Buzz, tangy and style to spare

  MONTREAL - See and be seen. This is the goal of every Fashion Week. There are many street style photogs focus snapper on the line, and sometimes street style looks plus the route.

But in the case of a few insiders who get a high point in advance of the title in the street and the track will appear are the same.

As in the two stylists at fairs and Montreal Fashion Week parties last week appeared in the dress of the season - UNTTLD kinky little Japanese-inspired dress with a kimono top and short skirt favorite - oops, in the spring and summer of this year. The stylist-model-muse Azamit he white stylist Sara Bruneau wore black, with a back rather Japonesque not pure.

The scene was filled with Arsenal Contemporary Art Center is the new home for huge salons half. It's in Griffintown and from there along William St. shows a side view of Montreal, all dilapidated roads, abandoned industrial buildings, fields of grass and weeds captured, though with the construction of the apartment towers future. This is the new Montreal, we are building, and the local fashion scene wants in on energy.

It was certainly a zap energy with the announcement of the discount giant Target as a new sponsor for the week and the excitement of an unlimited supply of champagne. The bartender in the charming and infinitely patient the media room, he felt more than 200 bottles of the stuff donated weekend. I think he underestimates the. With 350 media, around 100 buyers, and hundreds of other VIP guests and quaffing liberally over four nights (Organizers, the number of entries for the event at 20,000.)

Of course, the guests arrived in their finery: a flash glitter here and there for them and pork pie hat, boy genius in heels and dresses, shawls forms attached to the petals from the front out the tiara. I even tried to impress with a sleeved dress worthy conga-flying, and got compliments and requests for large buyers and designers, but other than the designer Duy has to guess its origin. (A collaboration for the Swedish retail giant lovable, romantic designers working today.)

And a business - of course, everyone is looking to make the next big star, and clothing us dream.

Highlights this week:

Detect trends: shorts, black, white, khaki, leather, copper metal as the day, peplums, oversized trench jacket combos, floral prints and stripes - yet.

The Fab Five - Denis Gagnon, UNTTLD, Anastasia Lomonova, Tavan and Mitto and Duy - were in great shape. It was Melissa Nepton, Martin Lim, Travis Taddeo. Maybe call the eight great?

Gagnon a show in the truest sense of the word. Sending friends, models and drag star Mado Lamotte on the track in full drag makeup and hair beads All black and white with gray sweatshirt tubes and prints of his mother and his family (so sweet and charming term) clothes were cut and slightly or fully and sculptural. It was a sports theme with racing stripes, but a black coat and a jacket with jersey neoprene-like fabric, the more sports and fashion was nice, secured artfully, masterfully designed.

UNTTLD José Manuel St-Jacques and Simon Bélanger took a turn for the "wild" about the fall and went back for a refined Japanese style. Three Jewels (all phones) opened the show: puffed wavy black robes and capes (just maybe Miyake). Mostly black and white with a bit of khaki and a final copper lamé urban clothes were cool.

It looks like UNTTLD is ready to jump from the avant-garde solution into a salable, portable, successfully online. There were dates at Holt Renfrew and Simons, showed the couple.

Duy put on an ode to the water in his own way couture. A water flowing dress with gold lace on the back of the angelic message Duy bodice highlighted the good life on the French Riviera, perhaps.

The designer showed his considerable experience with peplums, red or pistachio mesh, knitted denim blazer and sharp.

"Aqua is very marketable," said Britta Kroger, designer buyer Simons, adding that sells particularly well in Quebec, perhaps because people are dreaming of the Caribbean.

Travis Taddeo showed his first menswear collection while. Outside the site of IHP Perfectos perfect gray sweatpants and a beautiful gray silk cashmere jacket University, a tank and shorts were part of a collection that was more polished than the urban road. On the edge of some of the models wore headgear. Taddeo also asked. Collaboration with Aldo Rise for four models of shoes

Close to Parade Martin Lim halter dresses sorbet to the considerable torque design skills draped across the screen. Give me the gala in a number of strawberries.

Tavan and Mitto also best couture, especially with sculptural organza white, dove gray, emerald green and purple.

Fringe Festival: Anastasia Lomonova with support again, add a line in hybrid autumnal shades of rust and taupe. Copy his folded cloth and were in his signature line, individual peaks were part Anastasia dress code Lomonova. In partnership with Paper Moon Lomonova played with fringe taupe Send SWINGY and halter dresses, and a strange hairy beast head to toe. More strange (if you do not know that many designers to buy their fuel from the same local supplier) were Iris Setlakwe pieces in exactly the same fringe, while Sonia Leclair black fabric used for her little anomalous Goth Couture collection. Black Tiara with your wedding dress, everyone?

Best birthday present: Eve Gravel, marking 10 years of service, the ball rolling on Labor Day with a party and a photo exhibition called loft in Old Port. Portraits of Maude Arsenault of stars - including Ariane Moffatt, Karine Vanasse and Sophie Cadieux - Gravel, the clothes were exposed as guests watched a video of the spring collection and partied all night.

Opening Night at Arsenal Marie Saint Pierre celebrated 25 years in business and the introduction of a new line of furniture, called the Habitat. A model in Saint Pierre timeless black dress lying on a piece of swollen all week, wearing a saucer-like pick headrest.

Designer of the way down: There is no underestimating the designer of blood, sweat and tears put into their collection. They work late at night, often alone, sewing, finishing, steam, sacrifice everything, sometimes. Hinda Abdelkrim won a place to show their designer debut symbiosis of Hinda A. line. In shades of nude women and salmon, or purple with gray, the designer tedious manual notch. The edge of trousers or skirts and application of applied discs or buttons for a nice laptop, feminine collection At the end of all this, behind the scenes of the last day of the show, she burst into tears, stress and hard work of devastation. A few hugs, congratulations and moments later she was and ready for an interview.