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News Archive for LG Canada

NEWS 12.16.08 3:12 PM

LG to Become Fashion Week's Title Sponsor

Robin Kay at Fashion Week
Photo: BizBash

LG Canada is taking on the role of title sponsor of Toronto Fashion week, the company announced in a press release today. The electronics company became an executive-level sponsor of Fashion Week for the first time this October, launching a new line of cell phones in the tents at Nathan Phillips Square and closing out the week with a massive fashion and music event called LG Fashion Fusion, which featured a concert by Maroon 5.

“We couldn’t be happier with today’s announcement,” said Andrew Barrett, LG's vice president of marketing. “Working with the F.D.C.C. over the past year has been a pleasure, and we’re ecstatic about continuing and strengthening this relationship through our new role as title sponsor. At LG we are committed to aligning our brand with style and fashion, and I don’t think there’s a more appropriate or high-profile avenue to do this than by branding Toronto’s premier fashion event, LG Fashion Week presented by L’Oréal Paris.” MORE >>

LG Canada, Fashion Week, Fashion Design Council of Canada, IMG Sports & Entertainment

EVENT REPORT 11.04.08 3:48 PM

Fashion Cares Adopts Halloween-Meets-Hitchcock Theme With Costumes, Film Tributes

The stage show at Fashion Cares
Photo: George Pimentel

When Michael King and Phillip Ing signed on to plan this year's Fashion Cares, the pair knew they had a lot of ground to make up for after a disappointing event in 2007. "Last year was a very difficult year. It wasn't my year chairing it, but they made a number of mistakes," King, chair of the Fashion Cares steering committee, said of the 2007 event, which was criticized for the choice of venue (a tent in the Distillery District) and the lack of a runway show. "They were well intentioned. They just didn't think things through."

On Saturday, the gala returned to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for an evening hosted by David Furnish that included an elaborate runway show featuring looks from more than 40 designers and performances by the likes of Katy Perry and Dame Shirley Bassey. The annual fund-raiser for the AIDS Committee of Toronto, dubbed "Fashion sCares" this year, adopted a Halloween meets haute couture meets Alfred Hitchcock theme.

"I was watching the Movie Channel and I saw The Birds and I realized there are so many iconic elements from Hitchcock movies—the fabulous blonds, the sort of sexual repression, the horror of the birds, the suspense. There's great stuff to pull out of that and throw together for a theme for a Fashion Cares show," said Ing, who produced the event for its first 20 years and returned this year as the show's producer and creative director. MORE >>

AIDS Committee of Toronto, Alfred Hitchcock, Shirley Bassey, Katy Perry, Kreesha Turner, BMO Financial Group, LG Canada, CTV, The Globe and Mail, CHUM FM, Sir Magazine

EVENT REPORT 10.17.08 4:55 PM

Greta Constantine Stages Pre-Fashion Week Show on Glacial Set

The reflective runway at the Greta Constantine show
Photo: Gerrit de Jonge

On Wednesday night the duo behind the fashion label Greta Constantine presented their third show to an audience of more than 300 at Circa. The Campari-sponsored show included Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill's signature mirrored runway, this time anchored by a glacier-shaped structure emphasizing the evening's "Fragile" theme. Staff at Circa constructed the 38 by 6-foot runway over three days using wooden planks covered in mirrored Plexiglas. MORE >>

Greta Constantine, Campari, L'Oréal Fashion Week, LG Canada

NEWS 09.18.08 4:05 PM

AIDS Benefit Announces Lineups

Models at the Fashion Cares launch
Photo: BizBash

Haute couture meets Alfred Hitchcock is the theme for this year’s Fashion Cares fund-raiser—being held November 1 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to benefit the AIDS Committee of Toronto—organizers revealed Wednesday. Event chair Michael King described the upcoming gala, dubbed Fashion Scares, as “a Halloween weekend spectacle…a fancy-dress costumed affair that takes it’s theme from the master of suspense…and a marvelous excuse to exhibit sartorial excess for a community that loves any excuse to dress up.”

Wednesday’s launch, held at the Brant House, offered a preview from some of the 40 designers set to participate in the runway show at the 22nd annual gala. Models donned creations by David Dixon, Pam Chorley, Greta Constantine, and Izzy Camilleri. “We’re putting fashion back in Fashion Cares,” King said of the event, which is being organized by artistic director and producer Phillip Ing. The vice president of special and retail events for M.A.C. Cosmetics is back after stepping down for a year. (Ing was not involved in last year’s gala, which received mixed reviews after moving from the MTCC to the Distillery District for the first time.) MORE >>

Fashion Cares, AIDS Committee of Toronto, BMO Financial Group, LG Canada, CTV, The Globe and Mail, CHUM FM, Sir Magazine

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