Lasting only three days, the fashion week featuring Quebec designers' spring-summer 2008 collections was too short, but rich all the same.
Day 3
MYLÈNE B</b>
It was a very minimalist collection for the young Fashion Week recruit. The spring-summer 2008 season for Mylène Bélair made a statement of simplicity. The pure lines of her creations testified to a certain refinement. The pieces amounted to translucent T-shirts, pencil skirts, cigarette pants and square cuts. The tones vacillated between black, gray and white, and sometimes a hint of pale yellow arose from the lot. Very restrained creations for the Montreal designer.
FOXY JEAN</b>
The name says all! As seen on the runway, the Foxy woman is sexy and provocative, in skinny jeans and mini-shorts. With their Lolita allure, many of the creations were seductive, featuring polka dot motifs and leopard prints-not to mention that most of the tops featured a bustier. This season, Foxy also offered a series of close-fitting cocktail dresses.
MARIE SAINT PIERRE</b>
After Morales, Marie Saint Pierre's show was the most popular, and with good reason. Marie Saint Pierre remains the leader in Quebec and Canadian fashion. She distinguishes herself by her professionalism and her concern for perfection. Nothing escapes her when the time comes to present her new collections to the public. The show was impeccable, the picture of its creations. The designer continues to evolve along the lines of the purity of shapes. Each season, she overcomes another dimension in her creative approach. Always inspired by material and texture, this time Marie Saint Pierre worked more with simplicity, abandoning somewhat her textured fabrics to dedicate herself more to superimpositions of translucent fabrics. We also noticed straighter lines. What stood out from the show remained the designer's capacity to create clothes that are at the same time aesthetically chic and uniquely comfortable.
Photos courtesy of Jimmy Hamelin/ SensationMode
