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When I was asked to model for Stanley Carroll in this year’s Western Canada Fashion Week I was completely shocked. In a good way. I would have been completely flattered to be asked to model for them in general, but there is an added element to my initial disbelief. I am transgender and openly so, an identity that, unless embroiled in controversy, is not commonly spoken about in Alberta media, nevermind Western Canada.   Being trans means your gender is often in question and being evaluated by everyone around you. It takes a lot of mental and emotional energy to...

On March 30th Stanley Carroll will launch his latest collection “Flowers of Evil” at Western Canada Fashion Week.   In many ways this will represent a real revolution for the design house that has been around since early 1980’s.  To begin with the company will now shift it’s focus to present solely a men’s wear collection and additionally, there is a true change in attitude about the design process and marketing.   “There are so many exciting changes happening these days within the industry and I really wanted to be part of that, “said Stanley.  “Of course technology plays a...

Fashion a popular trend, especially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behaviour.  For something to become popular because people somehow feel obliged to embrace a trend as a means of fitting in is something that has to me always has had an almost counter productive element to it, as by my very nature I tend to be rebellious and non conformist.  Why is it, that one day everyone feels it is important to wear their skirt a certain length (and in fact to be considered an outcast by those in the “know” if they don’t)? Why is...

In one of our most recent look book shoots we posed the model in front of some paintings   almost like an artist captured in his studio and we got quite a few questions as to the artwork in the background.  The work is by a Dutch painter, Joost (www.facebook.com/joosttheartist) a rather  reclusive person who we met many years ago and have always managed to stay in contact with.  Based in Bodegraven, a small city in the province Utrecht, he works out of a small studio that overlooks farmers fields and produces work that to me has an organic, at times...

A clothing designer is, of course, aware that the product they create is something to be worn, and it therefore makes sense that the way we present our ideas to the public is on the human form.  A major factor in all this of course is the who, and what type of person is used as the mannequin and certainly over the last few years the discussion about age, body type, ethnicity has heated up. As it has been argued often and accurately that the models used do not reflect a cross section of the consumer.  Let me begin by...