By Emma MacArthur In an age where everything we eat, wear and do is documented in self-curated archives online for the world to see, it´s become easier than ever to express one’s self and how one wants to be perceived by the world. From Snapchat to Facebook to Instagram, the world is enthralled by the…
Tag: Canadian Fashion History
A Dior Masterpiece “Rubris”
By Jennifer Dares Research Report: Dior, “Rubis” SFRC Accession Number 1-957-15-00946 https://digitalrepository.senecacollege.ca/s/digitalfashionresourcecentre/item/6366 This women’s ensemble, named “Rubis” consists of two garments, a sheath dress and a co-ordinate coat, from the Spring / Summer 1957 collection. The theme was “Freedom”, and was translated through the idea of freedom of movement. Christian Dior passed on October 23,…
Paper Dolls
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…
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…
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…
A Canadian Fashion Story: Pat McDonagh
March 12 – April 24 – Fashion History Museum, Hespler May 2nd to 6th – Seneca College, Newnham Campus at The Boutique, B2024. This year’s annual Fashion Resource Centre spring exhibition is another first for Seneca College! Last year our friends at the Fashion History Museum (FHM), Jonathan Walford and Kenn Norman, contacted me about the…
Giving and Thanks!
We just celebrated Thanksgiving, midterm is just about here, the United Way campaign has been launched and Study Week begins next week which all spell out that we are well and truly in the midst of the fall term. This means that things are getting busier for students, faculty, support staff and administration. And yet,…