| EVENT REPORT 04.27.09 3:05 PM |
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Elle Canada Revamps Consumer Show and Presents Seminars, Runway Shows Prior to New Labels Gala
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 | The runway room at the Elle Show
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After throwing a three-day consumer show—which kicked off with the Toronto Fashion Incubator's New Labels Fashion Show and Gala—at the Direct Energy Centre last spring, Transcontinental Media decided to scale things back for the second annual Elle Canada Show, held Saturday at the Carlu. The magazine created a one-day program filled with seminars, runway shows, and shopping (at 52 exhibitor booths in the Carlu's foyer) that drew 1,000 registrants. "I think that our formula now is the way to go," said Susan Solomon, manager of consumer shows for Transcontinental Media. "It's a real girls' day out."
Val Garland, artistic advisor for Yves Saint Laurent makeup, conducted a session on summer trends, and Jacquie Hutchinson, a product trainer with Revlon, talked about professional skincare. Browns shoes held a presentation on new looks for the season, and attendees received advice on how to find the best undergarments and swimsuits at a series of Perfect Fit clinics presented by Avec Plaisir Lingerie and Melmira Swimwear.
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Elle Canada, Toronto Fashion Incubator, Transcontinental Media, Cadbury, Browns, Pantene, Covergirl, Olay, Winners, Melmira, Yves Saint Laurent, Revlon |
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 05.16.08 12:21 PM |
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Toronto's Top Fashion Events 2008
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 | The tents in Nathan Phillips Square
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1. L’Oréal Fashion Week
This semiannual event generates a weeklong buzz among designers, editors, retailers, and industry insiders who converge on the city from across the country. Last fall’s event, which featured 30 collections, saw the shows move from Exhibition Place to a tent at Nathan Phillips Square. This year’s shows, produced by the Fashion Design Council of Canada, ran March 17 to 22; the “Wear in the World” theme featured international designers. This year's spring 2009 collections will present October 14-19.
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Toronto's Top 100 Events, L’Oréal, Fashion Design Council of Canada, AIDS Committee of Toronto, Toronto Fashion Incubator, Elle Canada, Windfall Clothing Service |
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| EVENT REPORT 04.25.08 5:54 PM |
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Elle Debuts New Consumer Show With T.F.I. Gala, Awards
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 | The Elle Canada New Labels gala
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Creating an event to showcase Elle Canada while supporting local up-and-coming designers has been on Jacqueline Howe's mind for some time. Yesterday, the vice president of Transcontinental Media and publisher of Elle Canada realized her idea come to life at the first Elle Canada New Labels gala to support the Toronto Fashion Incubator (T.F.I.) at the Direct Energy Centre. “It’s been a seed planted in the back of my mind for about two years, but we didn’t get the final approval [from the Elle offices in France] until September," Howe said of the process that led to the creation of the Elle show, a three-day fashion and beauty show that runs through Sunday.
The magazine has long been a supporter of T.F.I.'s New Labels competition and runway show. "We had been a partner and sponsor with them for the past five years, so last year, after the 20th anniversary event, we talked to [T.F.I. executive director] Susan Langdon and told her what our concept and idea was and that we would like to do an opening night that would be a fund-raiser for T.F.I. and host that competition that we’d been involved with,” Howe said. “She took it to the board and they said, ‘Love it. It’s great.’ And so we started.”
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Elle Canada, Toronto Fashion Incubator, Nine West, Rowenta, Triumph, Vin de Pays d'Oc, Movado, Canadian Home & Country, Transcontinental Media |
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