Toronto Fashion Week: Joe Fresh delivers a slinky sixties sex kitten vibe: Before
the big names light up David Pecaut Square at Toronto’s World
MasterCard Fashion Week later this week, it’s time for the new names to
shine. Day 2 in Toronto was filled with strong fashion showings from the
country’s most promising young up-starts, where labels from Toronto’s
sister act Chloe Comme Parris and Montreal duo Martin Lim,
among others, commanded the runway with their Toronto fall 2012 fashion
week collections ‘Ain’t nobody dope as me, I’m just so fresh and so
clean’ – so sang Atlanta hip-hoppers Outkast
on a record spun by a rather exuberant DJ before the packed Joe Fresh
fashion show on Wednesday evening. Its buzz grows every season, so Joe
Mimran’s line of grocery-store couture clothing line had a lot to live
up to. Luckily, the fashion week show, spurred by a slinky sixties sex
kitten vibe, delivered something, yes, fresh in Toronto this time. – - ©ourtesy of Tiyana grulovic @ theglobeandmail.com
Despite the usual Toronto Fashion Week wall-to-wall
crowds, the start of Toronto World MasterCard Fashion Week is generally a
slow burn, with things not getting properly fired up until at least day
2. However, the parade of the Toronto fall/winter 2012 fashion
Martin Lim used punchy colours alongside a palette of black-on-white
