By Dale Peers If you ever played with paper dolls as a child imagine the thrill of dressing a living model in your own paper creation. That was the opportunity provided by the folks at the White Cashmere Collection 2017 National Student Competition. This was the 14th annual fashion fund and awareness-raising campaign for breast…
Back to the Books
By Dale Peers One full week of school down and 10 months until school’s out for the summer. We are back to the books, whether they be hard copy or digital and I thought I might include in this blog some of my favourite fashion titles. I am a lover of hard copies and have…
Fashion Rules
By Dale Peers When these two words are used together, I hear two different meanings. On the one, Fashion Rules seems to need the punctuation of exclamation points and to perhaps be preceded by “Dude!” It is a call to those obsessed with the newest, the latest, the trendiest to confirm just how important fashion…
50 Years of Fashion at Seneca College
By Dale Peers If you were not able to attend our exhibition of 50 Years of Fashion (I know a week is not nearly enough time for everyone to make it to our Newnham campus!) I hope you will enjoy some of the exhibit’s highlights in this month’s blog. As our country gets ready to…
Red Carpet Looks
By Dale Peers, True fashionistas love the award season because the most elegant, over-the-top (some might say bizarre) looks are absolutely appropriate. We get to see, for a few short weeks the artistry that is haute couture worn by our silver screen royalty. Let’s look at how the eclecticism of fashion is reflected in the…
Dior: Anniversary of an Iconic Fashion House
By Dale Peers, Drop Dior into the conversation and regardless of those assembled, everyone knows the topic has shifted to fashion. And, most know that the founder, Christian Dior, launched an empire of fashion that reaches around the globe and into our personal space scented with aftershave or perfumed soaps. What fewer know is that…
The Colour Purple (and pink, red, yellow, orange, blue, green……)
A few blogs ago I wrote about the colour white, the use of it in fashion and society. I love colour and our Resource Centre allows me to indulge in a visual feast every time I do a display. A few weeks ago our display focus wasn’t on a particular period in fashion history, instead…
A Year of Anniversaries
Before November, the month of Remembrance Day, slips away I am looking forward to creating events to remember in 2017. There are several anniversaries that we will be celebrating which will allow us to once again showcase items in our Fashion Resource Centre. As a Canadian the celebration of the founding of our country in…
Fall Fashion Field Trips
By Dale Peers, Thanksgiving weekend is almost upon us and the lovely fall weather might be double the encouragement for a little fashion field trip. There are some wonderful exhibitions in full swing that you will want to catch before they, like the fall leaves, disappear. The Fashion History Museum in Hespler makes for a…
Fashion Resource Centre Book Launch
By Dale Peers, What a wonderful crowd came to out to celebrate at The Spoke Club in Toronto the launching of two new cross disciplinary projects. The one that I am most proud of is our Fashion Resource Centre book! The project was completed in an incredibly short period of time and would not have…