Tag Archive for the term: fashion

Serah Marie from Worn talks a lot about the bizarre but undeniable pattern she sees in photos submitted to her alternative indie fashion zine. They are almost unrelentlessly photos of skinny white girls, and it’s a problem. Vogue’s step to try and right the scales is a brand new all black issue. Though this doesn’t […]

The Worn Fashion Journal editors have raised what I think is an important issue on their blog, about Advertorials - advertising that looks like editorial content. In conversation we’ve discussed the especially dictatorial nature of this practice in some women’s fashion magazines, and the scary way this can manipulate the availability of ideas about identity […]

So I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a bit of a fashion column but as soon as I’d try to start writing, I would start off with a serie of photos and have nothing to say. I’ve been taking photos for a bit over a year now and have never been much of […]

Judging from the popularity of the last blog post about a Matt and Nat sample sale, I figured people might be interested in finding out about another one:

Check out their website for a preview of the beautiful vegan leather and linen bags that they have. Your best bet is to go on day 1 for […]

Last week Worn hooked up with Sherwin Tjia of Perpetual Emotion Machine Productions and Amber Goodwyn of Lickety Split smut zine (both past Worn contributors) who do a regular night in Montreal just for slowdancing, and threw a big old Prom. The outfits were fantastic, the making-out was crazy, and the songs were perfect […]

A few more hot hot pics to tempt you to come out and support local design collective at Moniker Custom Screen Printing’s T-shirt vernissage this evening…

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MONIKER DESIGNS’ VERNISSAGE:
SATURDAY APRIL 5th at REDBIRD STUDIOS (135 Van Horne), 5pm - 12am
With great tunes and great drinks courtesy of our sponsors at MacAuslan
This event […]

April 5th 2008, Moniker Custom Screen Printing is having a vernissage at the Red Bird Studios. What kind of vernissage? A T-Shirt and Apparel vernissage.
Moniker Designs is a collective of independent artists, designers, silk-screeners and seamstresses who from across the country who have teamed up to launch a line of unique t-shirt designs. With over […]

Most of us have googled our own name at least once just to see what came up. But who do we find in the virtual fragments of self and other, networked through space and time? Is the truth in searching not having found?

Well, yesterday I found myself.
Ok actually it’s not very philosophical at all, […]

More fashion advice from Montrealers and their Mums!

Hey you! In our belle ville in April? Want to see Montreal indie fashion statements at their best, plus get a little human contact?
Mark it on your calendar people - Worn and Lickety Split are teaming up to throw a big Slow Dance party at Sala Rosa, […]

On day one of L’Oréal Fashion Week, I was excited to finally be able to witness Denis Gagnon’s second collection since his return into the business after a short disappearance. He did not deceive me or anyone else in the tents. Although he presented what turned out to be yet another selection of black outfits […]

My notebook is full of notes about colors and fabrics and texture and madness. My brain is bursting with techno remixes and runway music. I’ve seen the whole cast of Degrassi, Jeanne Becker and select Canadian Idol judges nod or smile in their front row seats. I’ve seen many a’model fall and trip and break […]

While the original plan was to do little reviews and write ups of all the designers I would be seeing during fashion week, it became clear in a very short amount of time, that that was simply impossible. After dealing with some press pass issues that lead to missing fashion week opener and project runway […]

More post-it fashion advice from Worn’s audience-participation-action at the Indyish Monthly Mess. Part 1 is here!

My first introduction to Project Runway was at my friend’s house watching stolen American cable. Her VHS tapes of the episodes got passed around my group of friends for a while, in all its fuzzy glory. This seemed like a reality show I could actually get my teeth into, and not have to […]

Last Friday, Feb 29, Worn asked the audience at the Indyish Monthly Mess to post their fashion advice on the walls. This was supposed to be fashion advice from mum’s, and some of the best would be published in an upcoming special issue of Worn for Mother’s day called “Everything I know About Fashion I […]

Our Indyish Monthly Mess remains messy, and is especially tricksy when we convert a non-venue into a venue for one night, but it always seems to manage a magic, diversity and glow that I love in it’s every manifestation.
This month, Feb 29 2008, we returned to the private loft Studio 300 for some class, […]

I while back I got a facebook message from a guy named Jef who plays in the band, Jef and Holograms. He was wondering if I could post his ad for a drummer on Indyish. We don’t really have a community announcements board, but we do have a group blog (which you’re reading right now) […]

Try to tell me what’s going on here:

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Alannah gets it…

I wanna know what he said to her…

Blog? Hell naw. Photo Blog!

Jon Stewart!

More to come…

[Update: Our host for the evening will be the beautiful wordsmith, Miss Gina, and Moly Kulte will be gracing us with a new unique creation!]

For Immediate Release
Announcing: 1 Year of Mess!
FEB 29, 2008.
Studio 300
409 St-Francois-Xavier
PWYC - Suggested Donation - 5$
Fantastic Attire Desired (but not required!)

For the past 12 months (12! Already! crikes) we have traveled […]

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Worn Journal is looking for people to take pictures for our website in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. You need not be professional, but you must have your own digital camera, be interested in the independent creating community, excited to meet new people and be part of a growing fashion publication and able to commit […]

Democracy is fun, and so is good street style blogs. I’m proud to be able to say, that the blog I co-founded with my friends Alison Cohen and Dane Richards, Shut Up You Twit!, is up for voting during the Wedding Dress #2 festival in Berlin!
The competition is curated by a good friend, Shut […]

This call for silkscreen design submissions dropped into my inbox over the weekend from an old friend, Katie Green. Katie made the bold, indie move of re-investing her tuition money in a silkscreening studio. Now she’s callin’ for artists to collaborate with on a new line of clothing:
Hey all,
I am working on putting together a […]

There are several stores in Montreal that really do sales right. Arterie is one of them. The store celebrates each sale weekend with a Friday night in-store party, complete with drinks and finger foods! You’d better believe that I was there. Socializing with fellow lovers of local designers and friperie finds and getting fantastic deals on much-coveted wearables? Oh! Two loves with one kiss!

I am in the process of applying for a grant to start a clothing line but I need the expertise of some outside help:
1) A pattern maker for 10-20 patterns, to help make and to help with size and fit,
2) An assistant to assist me with making small details, running errands and […]

Oh, how we love Worn parties!
Yes, Worn Fashion Journal’s fifth issue has just been released, and the party thrown at the Main Hall was indeed a testament to just how pretty, fun-filled and fabulous the magazine, and its new baby, really is. As Tessa predicted, the room wasn’t much cooler than the freak 30-degree weather […]

Seeing as yesterday was almost 30 degress with the humidity, tonight’s event at Main Hall isn’t going to be as much a study in contrasts as perhaps originally intended.
Worn Fashion Journal is launching its 5th issue and, as to be expected, is doing it in style. Previous parties were known for their elaborate fashion […]

Go drink the free drinks!! Do the indie fashion scene shmoozery, check out art and photography and sweet deals in the Mile End over at General 54.

Hello friends of General 54/Local 23
Just a note to remind you about the Vernissage tonight (Thursday 7pm)
at General 54 for Mark Slutsky and Dan Buller’s new show “Looking
Around”.
We […]

ah, if you’re in Montreal wondering what to do with your fine and skilled self this afternoon, might I suggest you take up embroidery? Serah-Marie, founder of Worn Fashion Journal, is teaching intro to embroidery today at one. It’ll be a small class, it’ll run as long as it needs to, and it’s going down […]

I am a bit of an environmentalist. I try to keep it under wraps, but I don’t generally go around promoting consumerism. However, I will make an exception for the Vente Verte, August 8th and 9th only, where you can pick up clothing from local eco-friendly designers at half-price. The sale features local eco-friendly deisgners […]

Ok, so lets face it. I’m a fashion nerd. I’m just about to jump right back into the last 2 semesters at Lasalle College, after which i can declare, after 3 years of sweat, tears and tearing of fabric that, yeah, I’m a fashion designer. So this summer, rather than wear out my bum and […]

Update from the ‘osphere - Serah sent me this online review she found of Worn. She knows I like to hear what people have to say about it, and how my secret neurotic ego likes to hear buzz about the book review. I’m one of those people who pulls their hair out, moans melodramatically, paces […]

Things seem to be pulling together! The fashion theatre crew and Fringe had a chat and as far as I can tell have agreed (true to theatrical form) that the show must go on. Miscommunications were again re-sorted, and so it’ll all be sunny soon (fingers crossed) and woo! Woo! Posters are going up, hands […]

Indyish is tangled up in a whole slew of events for the Montreal Fringe Festival 2007. We’re proud and pleased as punch to pitch in.

Multiple Day / Multiple Venue Events:
The Pre-Fringe Radio Play Series - Podcast Shows
click here
The Assembly 2.0 The international collaborative art relay touches ground with optional meets during Fringe at […]

Seditionaire -.. Se * di ” tion * aire.. , Noun. An inciter or promoter of sedition .
A collaborative of artists, designers, directors, and actors who, tired of the conformity and bureaucracy abounding in their respective fields, came together to create a company aimed at pushing the norms of the conventional…Not breaking rules, but […]

You know its summer when people start mixing drinks with lemonade! Well, ok, maybe I just want an excuse to point out that it’s summer. The spring wardrobe didn’t even have time to make an appearance and a kick and a twirl out into the world before we headed right into ice cream parlours and […]

It’s Cinco de Mayo so there’s historic battle winning in the air and of course lots going on. Aside from a little disorienting trip down memory lane with some best girlfriends at our 10 year high school reunion this afternoon, today I’ll be sticking a head in to the Fringe party raging at the Mainline […]

Fashion Week is underway with great shows for the fashion fabulous or just curious. Last night was the Telio competition at the Imperial Hotel where it was the unveiling of the results for the contest that some fellow Lasalle Collegers had spent many sleepless nights over. First place went to a student from École Supérieur […]

Remember the folks who brought you the fashionable Pinter play last year? This indyish review will remind you, and you can meet them face to face at a designer market March 23, 24 as it turns out, or sign up beforehand to get in on their designer action:
Seditionaire (the theater group the did Betrayal and […]

Hello artisans,
We have some excellent news to inform you of and some very cool performances to invite y’all to participate in.
Indyish is going to be hosting a monthly performance extravaganza at a new venue called Katacombes (1222 St. Laurent). It’ll take place the last Wednesday of every month starting Wednesday, March 28th.
The Katacombes’ proprietress […]

You love fashion? You’re a fan of pretty embroideries, knits, beading, draped jersey?
You happen to be in Toronto longling for a glimpse of Montreal spring? We’ve got just the thing for you!

Come out to a night of a collaboration of cities, Designers and Artists and d.j’s.
Featuring an interactive fashion showcase, from Haiiku (mtl) and […]

As you’ll see from the segment of an email back and forth below, Astria Suparak has got my back. All our backs. What I mean is - though some of the artists on Indyish.com aren’t necessarily pumping this co-authored site full of daily blog posts and products, they are still stitching us into other circuits […]

I met the newest Indyish artist in person yesterday when we met at Romolo’s on Bernard for lunch. This is the kind of mood I was in by the end of it. She has a great big laugh and fabulous style, and we traded Wordpress tips and tricks and blogger contacts like the fashionable girl […]

Press Release:
You are invited to the “I love the sweatshop” party (10pm-3:30am) and designers market (5pm-10pm) taking place on December 2nd 2006 at club Lambi located at 4465 st.Laurent blvd.
What is wrong with today’s garment industry? Obviously, like every other industry, people are over worked and underpaid! But in this industry the […]

Matt and Nat are Montrealers who make beautiful, animal friendly, leather-looking bags, including one called the Trainspotting bag, which I covet, and one called the Big Buddha Black, and and yeah. I dig them. So it’s with pleasure that I fill you in on the hot tip shot to me by Mary Jane Caro: there’s […]