seriously? vancouver fashion week?

*photo courteosy of Eugene Flores (http://www.highendphotography.ca/)

hastings and cordova…does that ring a alarm as the most sketchiest area in town? now walk into a woodworking studio that still has metal rods and machinery lying around. add an irregularly shaped runway carved out of a 120 year old tree with a rumpled white projection screen as a backdrop. surrounding the runway are old pieces of yaletown serving as makeshift benches for media and those lucky few who managed to steal a seat. otherwise, bystanders who paid the $25 admission fee were left huddling together near a garage door opening that invited the chilly november wind. 'tis the dunlevy studio - host of vancouver fashion week spring/summer '09.

right, right, you say that Vancouver is supposed to an eco-friendly city that’s one with mother nature. yes, we should recycle, reuse and not burn fossil fuels. sounds good on paper, but does that mean we have to host a poorly planned fashion week in a warehouse venue?

and the models. it’s true that there are many unhealthily skinny models nowadays, but some of the vfw’s models were flabby or overly buffed with poor catwalks. don’t expect to see many of them gracing the pages of vogue or runways of Milan anytime soon. at the least, they could’ve put the flabbier models in looser clothing… fashion week is supposed to about everything glam and beautiful – that includes the runway and the models.

at least the shows and collections were pretty decent to make up for the rest of it. look out for highlights from the t-shirt collection themed shows in the following days.



*where you can view more of Eugene Flores' work: http://www.highendphotography.com/



-cup of red