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Day one of Vancouver Fashion Week Fall Winter 2022, amazed the crowd as the international designers showcased their latest collections. With designers from Canada, Mexico, the USA, Japan, and France. Their unique and thoughtful pieces took the audience by surprise on Thursday night. Fashionable attendees were seen in all corners of the venue.
VCC showcased a wide and diverse range of student-made designs at Vancouver Fashion Week. The collections contained multiple inspirations, such as the Art-Nouveau movement, to experimental multi-media. From clothes toying with avant-garde forms of femininity to yarn creations meant to comfort and please, VCC succeeded in presenting highly diverse and elevated concepts.
Love to Ukraine, a tribute to the current circumstances that are troubling the beautiful country every day. Designer, Tetyana Golota, stunned the runway with beautiful and colorful pieces perfectly matched with flowered embroidery across all of the designs. The pieces were inspired by the current situation overseas and wanted to shed light on the beauty of Ukraine through all of the trials and tribulations they are enduring today. Tetyana executed this beautifully with intricate patterns. This traditional Ukraine collection was paired with flower motifs, textured patterns, and leading lines.
Martha Kyak is an Inuit fashion designer and artist who grew up in Pond Inlet, Nunavut. She has exhibited her InukChic garments at Vancouver Fashion Week, which combines traditional Inuit and contemporary design, as well as paintings and jewelry across Canada. The collection thrilled the audience with colors, patterns, and fringed appliques. The traditional Inuit design is perfectly mixed with contemporary, everyday wear.
Originally from Mexico, in the year 2016, the brand of IGNACIO CARRASCO began. This is a brand focused on emphasizing feminine beauty with elegant and natural silhouettes. On Saturday night, the collection featured tulle, poofy sleeves, and neutral colors. The contrasting slimming waist with the poofiness of the tulle created a beautiful and elegant silhouette.
Next at Vancouver Fashion Week, founder Laila Aouinati created BAD_DNA for women who want to feel glamorous yet tough. She takes inspiration from her unique life experience and international influences. The designer focused her latest collection on jumpsuits, cropped blazers, shimmery fabrics, and tulle. Laila wanted to make the women wearing her collection feel empowered, sexy, glamorous, and beautiful. The audience was taken aback by this creative collection.
Shivajothi is a gender-inclusive design label that was created by local Sri Lankan Canadian designer Sujitha Shivajothi. As a kid, she was always reaching into her father’s and mother’s closets searching for the next “it” piece. Her collection was made for all genders in hopes that all will enjoy it. The latest collection “Shanthi” featured, neutral earthy tones such as greens, browns, beiges, and black. Shivajothi is a local designer from Vancouver, BC. She designs and creates all of the collections thoughtfully and sustainably.
Kyle Denman is a fashion designer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Before entering the fashion industry, Denman studied political science. Having always loved art growing up, he craved creative expression and freedom and moved to Los Angeles to pursue fashion design in 2016. The collection “mul·ti·po·lar—ex·ist·ence” featured facial silhouettes & doubling/eyes (signifying theme of soulmates), 3D texture, feminine avant-garde form, and conceptual visualization. Yellow, black, and white made this collection stand out on the runway.
Calgary designer Marisa P. Clark’s contemporary women’s wear collection, FAUN, has a very distinct personality; its collections exude unabashed femininity and creative playfulness. The collection showcased flowing fabric and loose-fitting clothes. It was designed to be comfortable. Neutral charcoals and forest greens round out the pops of muted corals and blissful blues seen in the modern desert-inspired print. The audience took note of the comfortable styles and praised the unique collection.
Launched in 2022, Aoi Niikuni’s YONLOKSAN produces inclusive pieces for all sizes and gender. The collection showcased at Vancouver Fashion Week is vintage baseball and Air Force uniform-inspired styles infused with a neutral color palette of earthy greens and neutral browns. YONLOKSAN layered argyle sweaters, blouses, and trench coats together, leveling them up to a more fashionable style with pops of color and stylish flares to traditional contemporary wear.
HBT originates from the ’90s, born under the creative impulsion of a Marseillais tailors family. On Thursday evening at Vancouver Fashion Week HBT stunned the runway with their sport-chic dynamic and classic pieces. The collection featured stylistic boxing and militaristic nuances including details of dark green lapels, gold linings, chevron patterns, and breathable polyamide fabric, inspired by the sportive industry.
Photos by Arun Nevader
