Street Style: Outside The Fashion Week Tents
For Day 2 of Fashion Week I was stationed outside of the main tent to see who I might catch coming and going from shows.
Name: Sarah
Field: Model
Favorite item: Shoes
Name: Siena
Field: Throwing Parties
Favorite Items: Bag and Ring
Names: Karen and Jen
Field (Karen): Fashion Photographer
Field (Jenny): Fashion Designer/ Model
Favorite Item (Karen): Jacket
Favorite Item (Jenny): Silk Scarf
Name: Mathew
Field: Make-up Artist
Favorite Item: Prada Shoes
Name: Elyse
Field: Model
Favorite Item: Jacket
Name: Elise
Field: Model
Favorite Item: Coat
Name: Daisy
Field: Model
Favorite item: Ed Hardy Bag
Name: Felicia
Field: Writer / Stylist / Educator
Favorite Item: Detachable Turtleneck
Comments (58)
Yesterday's post was great, but this is a bit of a disappointment. Those are not pants, people. The only good things about this post are coats and boots, esp. on Elise.
It’s really amazing how much did style in TO change! Look at all these amazing shoes and accessories! Look at great hairstyles and make-up! It is such pleasure to see good-looking people. I hope TO crowd will be able to carry fresh glamorous style into Winter. My personal quest for the could season-glamming up Canada Goose parka and a black floor-length fur-lined leather coat. Any suggestions for keeping warm in style. BTW, thanks Blog TO for doing such a great job!
I have to disagree. I Love leggings! I think they look just great on people with good figures. I really like how they make your legs look longer and leaner-pure sexy!
A few look reasonable, but the rest? Did you pick the most uncomfortable and awkward clothes you could find?
I have to admit the first blog of the Street Style was quite disappointing. But it has started to get better- probably because it is fashion week and you would probably go outside of the LG fashion week event to take photos.
I am LOVING Felicia's green tights.
Also, what's wrong with fur if it's faux? There is an abundance of great faux furs floating around in the stores this season. I've been seeing it everywhere. I would never wear real fur, but I see no harm in wearing the fake stuff. The vest brings great warmth and softness to Siena's outfit.
No one cares how you spell favorite. Desperately hanging onto a colonial past is just that, desperate.
Toronto may be located in Canada, but it's a million miles away from anything Canadian. I was in Nova Scotia on the weekend. That's Canada. Coming back to Toronto is like landing in an entirely different country.
Admittedly I know nothing about fashion but I think james hit it - these people don't look comfortable. I went back and looked at yesterdays set (which I liked a lot!) and they all just look comfortable and at ease, and this set is like a contrast of that.
Maybe it was because more of yesterday's set were smiling? Smile in your photos people, life isn't that grim.
Although I'd like to see less models shown in Street Style (are they the only people at LGFW?), I love Daisy's look.
They're models. Models don't smile.
Daisy looks great, Siena's look bugs me but I'm intrigued by it at the same time.
while i don't have a problem with tights, it is a little disappointing to see that all but one girl are wearing them. where's the originality? personally, elise has the best outfit.
btw, style over comfort.
That fur vest looks pretty real to me. I can usually tell the difference. Real fur has this, hmmm... "was once alive" look to it.
I'm not even a fan of fake fur because I feel it promotes the aesthetic of fur, which will ultimately lead to people wearing real fur. Like all the poor little hipsters will buy their fake fur at H&M but the rich fashionistas will turn around and say "I can afford to wear real fur!" and then they will.
I just think you can look so awesome and stylish WITHOUT wearing dead animal carcass, so why bother with it at all, fake or not.
Elise easily trumps the set. I like Daisy's vaguely Amelia Earhart vibe too.
Re: tights, yes, don't wear them as pants. Wear them as TIGHTS -- under a tunic, a dress, a long sweater. You walk out with your crotch and butt swathed in spandex, and it just looks like you forgot to add a layer.
Ah yes, fashion! By snobs for snobs.
One can only hope that the child and poor adult labourers of the far east can flip on the net or TV after a long, hard day in the sweatshop and feel proud seeing the clothes they made as they drape over the vapid people who wear them. You can almost hear them say, "Sure a nickel a day barely keeps us alive but just look at the happy glow of the people who wear our handiwork. That makes it all worthwhile".
For texture?
Since it's fake, many people wear it for the simple aesthetic value, not the fact it's associated with animals. Half the prestige of real fur is the fact it looks *good*, not because people love hating on animals.
"Like all the poor little hipsters will buy their fake fur at H&M but the rich fashionistas will turn around and say "I can afford to wear real fur!" and then they will."
Not really my problem, is it? Rich fashionistas can do all kinds of crazy stuff, so why should anyone else be held responsible for it? Not to mention really nice faux fur costs money too.
My God, aren’t you annoying? Seriously, this is about fashion, not about believes. This is about what looks good, what is in style now, who puts their outfits together best… If you are so into all this PETA shit, good for you… Just leave everyone else out of it. It so happens that leather and fur are fashionable now-so deal with it!
Yeah warmflash, that was a pretty stupid thing to say, but thanks for trying to alienate Toronto. I'm sort of hoping you know where I can buy some real seal fur gloves though, what with you being in the Maritimes (which is basically the same as the North Pole probably). Seriously though, I really really want to wear some dead seal. Seriously.
Wow, TOGirl, that's a whole new level of shallowness. Who cares about ethics? My superficial wants are sooo important!!111!!
Again, I ask, why this parade of extreme thinness? These people are far, far from representative of Toronto's fashion-conscious bodies. Pretty much any thin person can find 'fashionable' clothing without trouble, that's hardly challenging; try doing the same when almost none of the stores sell any clothing in your size -- yet many people do, with a lot of extra effort. Where is the fat fashion?
"try doing the same when almost none of the stores sell any clothing in your size"
wouldn't you have to be an outlier for this to be the case? or do these stores really only stock size 0's?
"wouldn't you have to be an outlier for this to be the case? or do these stores really only stock size 0's?"
Most stores stock up to a 12, or, at most, a 14 (some 'fashionable' places rarely go over a size 10). The average woman, statistically, is about a 14/16. I am indeed a bit of 'an outlier' at size 28 (which puts me outside the range of even most plus-size stores), but even women in the lower plus sizes are confined to a tiny handful of chain stores. I also love fashionable clothes, but have to depend on expensive internet shopping even for casual stuff and career basics, not to mention more-fashionable looks. I'd love to see more people in these BlogTO features who demonstrate great ways to put together plus-size outfits.
I think they all look really great!
I also think it's odd (or an editing ooops, maybe?) that both Elyse and Elise are models that love their jacket and coat...
Aaah, homonyms and synonyms. lol
These gals are not "fake" per se, but they do look like they need some nourishment and maybe a hug from their estranged mom.
Wow... tons of comments on here complaining about how skinny everyone is (justifiably) and you rag on little old me?
I'm under the impression that you can look amazing and fashionable and not wear animals. Maybe you don't give a crap, but some people might.
@LR, thanks for speaking out for ethical fashion. It's funny how some people are perfectly willing to disregard the death of others if they think wearing their corpses will make them look 'hawt' (in their own tiny minds).
To me, both animal-free fashion and size-positive fashion are deeply interlinked. Animal exploitation and fatphobia both depend on the systematic marginalization of certain bodies as unworthy of consideration and respect.
I love animals and fat people. I don't want to eat or skin fat people (or any humans obviously) but I can't say the same about non-humans. I respect animals, but I also want to eat their flesh and wear their skin. So warm and cozy and biodegradable! I don't really care what the fur looks like, but holy crap, rabbit fur lined gloves are the best thing that ever happened to my hands.
"I love animals...but I also want to eat their flesh and wear their skin."
Wow, that's an odd form of 'love'. Real love is not about using others for your own enjoyment, but about re-centering your consciousness around the needs of those lives outside of your own, and sacrificing for others' sake.
This reminds me that our half-eaten bag of sour cream and onion rippled Old Dutch chips purchased from the Hasty Mart across the tents are somewhere in my floordrobe. Go Jon Loek!
I don't really understand the disgust people get when they see fur, and then these same people don't even care that everyone is wearing leather (and wool!). Hello! Both are animal skins! Both are bad and cruel!
While we're nitpicking, the "fields" aren't right either. "Model" is not a field, it is an occupation... "modeling" is a field. The same goes for writer (writing), photographer (photography), educator (education) etc.
Wool is not the skin of an animal, it's hair. How is shearing a sheep cruel? You PETA types are hilarious.
There's nothing wrong with leggings, though I hate the cutoff at the ankle. I much prefer tights. Leggings as pants is a no-no. They simply do not have the support nor the thickness to actually cover your ass. I'm all for them with a skirt or layered somehow.
And I think these people look perfectly comfortable.
I'm not a "PETA type." However, wool is often extremely cruel. The animals raised for this purpose are often mistreated and abused, and the shearing can also be extremely painful, especially when shearers are more concerned with speed, and not causing harm or stress to the animal. You might also want to look up museling as well before dismissing me as a "PETA type."
I grew up next to a sheep farm that sheared for wool.
Advice: Don't believe everything you read on the internet (This is where my PETA label comes from).
The wool is negatively affected by mistreatment and abuse, it's in the best interest of the farmer to treat the animals very well.
Also if you've ever watched a professional shearing a sheep, you'd know that the PROFESSIONAL knows exactly what they are doing and I've never in my life seen them hurt or distress the animal, again not in their best interest.
I guess going for a hair cut is abuse and mistreatment? Cause it's seriously the equivalent of that.
I should also mention that shearing is usually done in one fell swoop. Most professional shearers can actually remove the entire coat of wool in one piece. This would not be possible by hurting the animal.
Also worth mentioning that Sheep actually NEED to be sheared, otherwise they can't see and it will eventually lead to health problems with parasites.
P.S. Mulesing (You don't even know how to spell it :P) is something totally different... I'd suggest YOU look it up. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with shearing a sheep for wool and is typically only done in Australia.
Mulesing is a skilled surgical task[1] that involves the removal of strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech (buttocks) of a sheep.[2] Mulesing is common practice in Australia as a way to reduce the incidence of flystrike (myiasis) on Merino sheep in regions where flystrike is common.[2]
Methinks I detect [1] some copy and paste in your [2] last paragraph, Keven. Care to comment? [3]
I've seen several "professional" sheep shearers. I've seen sheep get cut, I've seen sheep have their legs broken, and I've never witnessed a sheep enjoying a shearing.
Anyway, let's get back to the real topic- how stylish everyone looks in their fur and leather!
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