If you like vintage clothing you need to get along to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Sunday March 23 2014 for the annual Vintage Clothing Fair. You’ll find everything from designer pieces to fashion prints and photographs as well as jewellery and other accessories on offer from a wide range of sellers. The show is open 10am – 5pm and there were will a CSO stand so be sure to stop by and say hello! For more details visit the show’s ...
The latest textile arts exhibition has recently opened at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West. Hard Twist – This is Personal unwraps a new incarnation of the Gladstone Hotel’s signature exhibition of textile-based art. Initially mounted as a one-off to coincide with the 2006 Textile Society of America Symposium at Harbourfront Centre, Hard Twist was an immediate hit and the Gladstone decided to make it an annual exhibition. Since then, Hard Twist has become an important event in the world of textile-based art and has attracted submissions from around the world. Hard Twist curators Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell’s philosophy is to offer a broad subject in their...
If you’re all up to date with your Christmas shopping and have a few spare minutes why not take the time to catch a couple of Toronto exhibitions before they close. ‘Chevalier du bracelet’: George Barbier and his illustrated works at the Fisher Rare Book library closes December 20, 2013 and The Gilded Age of Fashion 1890-1914 runs at the Toronto Reference Library until January 4,...
There’s a new exhibition at the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, ON. MODe: Fashion in the 1960s explore the revolutionary and youthful fashions of a decade. There will be a special viewing of the exhibition December 5 between 5-8pm. Curator, Jonathan Walford, will be available to sign copies of his latest book ‘Sixties Fashion: From ‘Less is More’ to Youthquake’. The book inspired the museum’s exhibition that features forty garments depicting the dramatic change in fashion from 1960 to 1970....
The Costume Society of Ontario’s Annual General Meeting will be held Saturday November, 30, 2013 2-4pm at the St Matthew’s Lawn Bowling Club, just off Broadview Avenue. Come to find out more about the Society’s work over the past year and plans for 2014. Doors open and sign in at 1:30 pm with the meeting running from 2 – 4 pm St Matthew’s Lawn Bowling Club 14 Saint Matthew Rd. M4M 2B5 Located just north of the Don Jail/ Bridgepoint Hospital on Broadview Avenue There is on street parking and TTC streetcar service (Gerrard St East or Broadview...
The Cathedral Church of St James will be hosting an exhibition exploring the artistry of ecclesiastical embroidery Friday, October 25 to Friday, November 1, 2013. Over 100 items have been gathered in celebration of the importance of embroidery and textile art in the creation of beauty and holiness in houses of worship of many faiths. They have come from as far away as northern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and into the U.S., and include not only clerical vestments, banners and altar frontals, but items related to rituals associated with birth, marriage and death – some dating back several hundred years. Ecclesiastical embroidery is recognized as one of the finest...
The newly opened Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, ON is hosting the perfect way to while away dark fall evenings – a series of fashion films shown every Friday at 6.30pm. Vogues of 1938 (1937), showing October 18 Classic Hollywood comedy about a wealthy debutante, played by Joan Bennett, who runs away from a society wedding to become a high-fashion model. 1 hour 48 minutes Pret-a-Porter (1994), showing October 11 This Character driven ensemble comedy is about the various designers, models, reporters and editors at the spring 1994 Paris fashion shows. PG – nudity and language. 2 hours 13 minutes Mrs. ‘Arris goes to...
George Barbier illustration for La Gazette du bon ton, 1914, showing a Jeanne Paquin Gown This October we have two events exclusive to CSO members which offer the chance to learn more about some intriguing and beautiful examples of dress history in Toronto. If you’re not a member already and fancy attending one of these events visit the membership page for details on how to join. George Barbier exhibition tour – Thursday October 17, 2013, 6pm This fall the Fisher Rare Book Library, part of the University of Toronto, hosts an exhibition about the work of the renowned early 20th century French fashion illustrator, George Barbier. On October...