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The Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week (FAT) is Toronto's first-ever alternative arts & fashion event.
With "alternative" defining our style consciousness, bringing the public and the industry the mutually exclusive possibilities of fashion-forwards fused with music and art.
The Fermenting Cellar and the Distillery District will host various (FAT) runway shows, live performances and installations featuring talented upstarts and established artisans redefining style and influence.
Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week is a multi-arts festival with a mandate of showcasing artistic disciplines rooted in fashion, and their exploration of the human body in today's time.
The festival aims to emphasize this mandate through the artistic disciplines of fashion design, photography, installation, video, performance, music and dance, in an effort to push forward and redefine our perception of the fashion phenomenon.
When presented jointly, the underestimated social force of fashion is showcased, redefining its role in contemporary Canadian society as not only an economic colossus, but also as an engineer of social practices and vehicle for personal expression.
The Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week intends to introduce a broader audience to these related creative fields, building public interest while simultaneously creating a forum where artists can learn from and collaborated with each other.
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Pantone released the PANTONE Fashion Color Report Fall 2008.
The report features the top 10 colors for women's fashion for fall '08, along with designer sketches, quotes and headshots.
According to the report, the fall '08 palette is best described as a season of change and is defined by rich, elegant hues that offer a vibrant selection.
New York's fashion designers emphasize cooler blues, greens and purples in the top five tones used in their collections, followed by variations of warm red, orange and yellow.
"Fall is traditionally a time for subdued, quiet colors, but this season we are seeing a shift toward cool hues with bright, exciting undertones," said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
"Conventional tones such as warm autumn hues, chocolate browns and steel grays are also among the fall color choices.
Blue and purple tones have become staples, as illustrated by Blue Iris, one of the top 10 colors chosen by designers this season, and Pantone's Color of the Year for 2008."
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Together with the fashion competition that is the core of ITS, ITS#ACCESSORIES completes the spectrum on the most creative young talents in fashion with a dedicated contest for all accessories design graduates and young accessories designers.
It is organised in partnership with YKK, a leading multinational company in fastenings that strongly believes in supporting creativity.
The accessories competition allows YKK to explore all of the out-of-the-ordinary creations that can be produced with their fastenings.
12 to 15 accessories designers will be selected for the finals.
They will fly to Trieste, Italy in July and their accessories will be displayed in a dedicated exhibition.
ITS#SEVEN will be a showcase of the highest expression of creativity from the most representative schools in the planet.
Finalists will compete for two awards.
The winner of Accessories Collection of the Year will receive € 10,000 and will be asked to create a new accessories collection to be presented at ITS#EIGHT.
The winner of the YKK Award will receive € 10,000 and a professional photographer will shoot an image of the winning YKK accessory to be used for promotional purposes.
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"Eco-fashion" refers to stylized clothing that uses environmentally sensitive fabrics and responsible production techniques.
The Polish academy SAPU - Szkola Artystycznego Projektowania Ubioru (School of Art and Fashion Design) in Krakow has been creating ecological clothes for over ten years.
This year the freshmen were working with diverse kinds of paper to present their unique work of durable and wearable clothes.
It was a spectacular fashion show: the various creative collections were applauded by over 1500 guests.
The second year students showcased large assortment of oversized quilted garments made with recycled material.
Over 300 people in all had contributed to the fashion show sponsored by the Polish company Polski System Recyklingu Organizacja Odzysku S.A.
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Recykling Multiplikacje: Recycling Fashion Show From Sapu
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Only in high school and already determined to have a career in fashion design, 18-year-old Tanya Lund is one step closer to making her dream a reality.
The Spokane, Washington teenager won a full-tuition scholarship to study Fashion Design at The Art Institute of Seattle in The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition held recently in New York City.
Open to high school seniors in the U.S. and Canada, The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition awarded two grand-prize winners full-tuition scholarships to study Fashion Design or Fashion Marketing & Merchandising or Fashion Retail Management at one of 26 Art Institute locations with Fashion programs across North America.
In addition to her full scholarship, Lund will attend Fashion Week in New York City in February 2008 and meet staff at Seventeen magazine.
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