This was the first onsite show for Ezra Constantine. The Designers Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong are better know for their womenswear line Greta Constantine but little brother Ezra is coming up in the world. They have toned down the line due to market demand but the looks are still edgy and still strongly bear their distinct aesthetic.
This was a stand out show for me. At the risk of sounding deranged I even found myself moved by it. Like the shows namesake, "Ethereal" the models emerged like dream figures in a strange landscape. Golnaz Ashtiani cites Moscow photographer Oleg Dou as an influence for this collection. The screen at the top of the runway projected a mirror image pattern of what looked like an atomic cloud twisting and turning like a kaleidoscope to create an infinite variety of new patterns from this one picture of clouds.
Firstly let me just say that I was a lucky contest winner with Now Magazine and that is how I was able to attend this premier and director Q&A last week so a big thank you to Now Magazine. I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, especially together -as they should be. I loved them in Spaced , Shawn of the Dea d and Hot Fuzz so I was thrilled that the "Cornetto Trilogy" would be complete at last.
Leo (Aaron Poole), a frustrated single dad and theatre director decides to take a chance and create a performance art project based on a weird dream that he had. The animals are the actors in his acting class wearing grungy looking rented animal mascot costumes. The project involves the animals wandering around Toronto dispensing free hugs or red balloons.
An invigorating collection of prints that will be sure to energize you with their colour and imagery through the long and unpredicatable Canandian winter. Lots of African motifs, fire, atom bomb clouds and in a gesture of wishful thinking perhaps, leopards, toucans, orchids and butterflies. There is something for everyone here.