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all great ideas.
I personally just don't dig the Canadian fashion scene. I feel bad because on the one hand, to grow and improve, it needs people to support and foster it, I just don't want to be one of those people
I'm all for buying canadian designers, but some are just not putting out the quality of work in terms of 'fashion design' (I don't know about textiles or other such things) to compete on an international level. Or if they are, they leave, or aren't given a spot at L'Oreal Fashion Week. Maybe I don't pay enough attention to all the shows there, but what I've seen is pretty much a joke. I don't mean it's so bad that it makes me laugh or anything, some pieces are nice, but it's just not cutting edge, it's not pushing fashion forward, it's not furthering anything. A lot of it seems to me to be re-hashed stuff. I don't know whether this is because we don't have the schools to foster talent, or good people leave, or don't get recognized, too small a population, or distribution problems, but I think something needs to fundamentally change in the canadian industry to help it improve. I mean, there are other countries who aren't one of the big four (Paris, Milan, London, NYC) that still produce great, interesting designs (like Rio for example) that get distributed. So where are we going wrong? I'm sure some will disagree with my sentiments but overall, I find the canadian industry wholely uninspiring.