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Find out our go-to makeup/beauty products! Our travel bags make it so easy to bring your favourite products on-the-go so we thought we would share what we keep in ours!
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My decision to share my reasoning behind not showing at Toronto Fashion Week this season was not intended to act as a critique of the event itself. On the contrary, my goal was to peel back the curtain and provide the public a look at what it means to be a fashion designer in Canada, and to hopefully bring attention to the fact that fashion-related events like TFW are under-supported. I am faced with the economic and physical realities of having a limited amount of time and money to put into my business, and so is every other designer trying to make a name for themselves. The fact that my open letter received more attention from the media and public alike than my past couple runway shows is very telling. Every designer showing is an artist, and a business person simultaneously, and is trying their hardest to make headway in a very competitive and fast-moving environment. When I was a kid, I used to think that if a musician had a music video on Much Music or MTV it automatically meant that they were rich and famous and living the high life. Of course, this was not the reality, and it has become increasingly more difficult to be successful in the music industry, but we tend to forget this and to equate notoriety with inherent financial success. The point I’m trying to make, is that I think sometimes we see people on a big stage and assume that they’ve made it, and that they don’t need our support. We criticize and troll online as if brands are faceless corporate entities without people behind the scenes doing the work, and we aren’t as conscientious of our purchasing power as we could be. In light of this, I wanted to highlight a few of the designers who showed at Toronto Fashion Week and made an impact on me personally.
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