I’ve been running around these past few weeks, checking out the OFF Festival in Quebec City (and dancing till the early hours to TMDP) and shoe shopping in Toronto. But I wanted to share this video of the always charming Vivienne Westwood on Jonathan Ross (one of Britain’s best late night tv chat shows) talking [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 15, 2009
Valentino: Decline of an empire?
Last Thursday, July 9, the Valentino couture show walked in Paris. The following day Valentino: The Last Emperor the documentary that captures the last two years of Valentino’s career, opened in wide release and the reviews for the couture show were all over the Internet. The timing, to my mind anyway, was perfect.
I’d seen the [...]
July 8, 2009
Forward thinking
Last week I checked out Griffé Québec a new exhibit that looks at the evolution of Quebec fashion. It’s a small show, divided in to two different locations, one in the city, the other in St-Lambert. Suzanne Chabot, the curator of both the exhibit and the Musée du costume et du textile du Québec, who produced [...]
