Fashion & Trend: May 2019

Friday, 31 May 2019

Fashion with Trend

House of Vans is the physical embodiment of the shoe brand’s slogan, “Off the Wall.” It’s broadly defined as a space that enables creative expression, whether that’s through skateboarding, art, music or street culture. It’s an ethos that House of Vans has taken across the globe, with permanent locations in Brooklyn, Chicago and London, and pop-ups that happen everywhere from Hong Kong to Calgary, Alberta.

This weekend, House of Vans is arriving in Vancouver for the first time ever. Taking place at the Harbour Convention Centre, the four-day takeover event is densely packed with programming that promises to inspire and entertain a diverse crowd. Visitors can expect live musical performances by John Maus and 88GLAM, zine-making workshops, a girls-only Skate Skool clinic and an art exhibition that celebrates 5 Years of Vancouver’s Crack Gallery.

In essence, this weekend is a celebration of Vancouver’s creative community. The most obvious example of this is The Community Market, where House of Vans partners with up-in-coming creatives in the area and support their craft by giving them a platform that offers exposure, but also a place to sell their products. There is, however, one thing you’ll notice isn’t for sale when you visit House of Vans: Vans. “We don’t sell any Vans products at House of Vans,” Alex Auchu, Marketing Manager at Vans Canada, explains. “Everything is free. The only people allowed to sell products are people in the community market.”

Browse through the gallery below for this weekend’s programming highlights:

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Fashion with Trend

Though the CAFAs may have been eclipsed by the Toronto Raptors’ blowout win against the Golden State Warriors in game 1 of the NBA finals last night, the biggest annual gathering of Canada’s fashion crowd still managed to sparkle.

Top designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren of Viktor & Rolf mingled alongside emerging talent like Marie-Ève Lecavelier (who dropped and broke her Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent when she came onstage to collect it!); philanthropists like Suzanne Rogers rubbed shoulders with top models like Tasha Tilberg and best-selling poet Rupi Kaur, all united under the common goal of drawing attention to the fashion talent that exists within Canadian borders – with an excuse to get glam while they were at it.

The overarching theme of the night seemed to be about the importance of building a community. CAFA president Vicky Milner delivered a rousing speech highlighting the importance of supporting one another; winner of the Vanguard award, curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot, urged the crowd to “help each other, give connections,” and Harry Josh, winner of the Hair Artist of the Year Award, Harry Josh proposed the crowd reevaluate their notions of success and “learn to connect with our consciousness and feel more as a community.”

And then, there were the clothes. Suzanne Rogers, dubbed “the Fairy Godmother of Canadian Fashion” by designer Sid Neigum, was clad in a floor-length floral dress with am oversize candy pink bow, Cary Tauben dazzled in head-to-toe metallic and Montreal duo Fecal Matter wore their signature uncanny vally “skin-heel” platforms. Stylist Christian Dare made the boldest statement of the evening, wearing a clutch that bore the message, “Fashion Still Has a Huge Diversity Problem.” He told FASHION, that the industry has a long0standing issue with diversity that it has ignored for many years. “Yes, we have seen ‘wins’ in the past year or so, like more models of colour on the runways, and transgendered actors and models appearing on the covers of magazines. Yet we still have major fashion houses using racist iconography in their designs… We need more diversity in the boardrooms, the offices, the design studios, the runways… We’ve got a long way to go still.”

Click through the gallery to view some of the most dazzling looks of the evening as documented by photographer George Pimentel in the CAFA portrait studio.