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Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong, the designers of Canada’s fashion label Greta Constantine, want nothing to do with Toronto Fashion Week, the twice-a-year presentation of Canada’s top design talent that starts Monday. But the duo felt their creativity was being hobbled by instructions that they must show in certain venues, must use predetermined makeup companies and artists, and a select group of models. According to Pickersgill, the Fashion Design Council of Canada, organizer of the city’s fashion week, was not prepared to accommodate the fledgling designers’ need to direct their own vision. “If we spend six months designing a collection, we should show it where we want to. We want to choose our own hair and makeup people,” says Pickersgill. “You lose a lot when you lose that kind of control.” Focus on creating their own show each year rather than participating in Toronto Fashion Week. Toronto Star article

Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong, the designers of Canada’s fashion label Greta Constantine, want nothing to do with Toronto Fashion Week, the twice-a-year presentation of Canada’s top design talent that starts Monday.

But the duo felt their creativity was being hobbled by instructions that they must show in certain venues, must use predetermined makeup companies and artists, and a select group of models. According to Pickersgill, the Fashion Design Council of Canada, organizer of the city’s fashion week, was not prepared to accommodate the fledgling designers’ need to direct their own vision.

“If we spend six months designing a collection, we should show it where we want to. We want to choose our own hair and makeup people,” says Pickersgill. “You lose a lot when you lose that kind of control.”

Focus on creating their own show each year rather than participating in Toronto Fashion Week.

Toronto Star article

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