Destination: Montreal. Festival Mode and Design Fashion Show

I Love Sensation Fashion Show 08.07.2010 
After a day of shopping, some purchases at BCBG, and a few hours at two different cafes, I stopped by  Festival Mode and Design during my stay in Montreal last weekend with a few friends. The Festival Mode and Design is an annual event that showcases local Quebecois work. I attended the I love Sensation closing show "by NYC 'design guru' Dick Walsh featuring surprise guests" (FMDM).

The show was wild! Music blasted through the streets, sending vibrations through the crowd as models carried coloured mannequins down the runway, placing them in carefully chosen spots lining the runway. Throughout the show, models carried decorations creating a small set around each and every mannequin. Every now and then rows of models strut down the catwalk covered in a bright, opaque material tightly pulled over their entire frame.

Granted, it was more a show than a showcase of fashion, but fun to watch nonetheless. I believe I was looking forward to a different aesthetic. Perhaps because local and budding designers are closer to, oh let's say us little people down here, you'd think you'd have more variety of size and race on the runway rather than the regular waif. Then again, perhaps it's just my obsession with Marc Jacobs for LV this fall talking.

 A few shots I grabbed:

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