{"id":45888,"date":"2015-03-28T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45888"},"modified":"2015-03-28T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T04:03:20","slug":"whats-hot-in-fall-and-winter-fashions-five-key-trends-from-the-toronto-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/28\/whats-hot-in-fall-and-winter-fashions-five-key-trends-from-the-toronto-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s hot in fall and winter fashions? Five key trends from the Toronto runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"4\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/0v4YQQoY3R\/\" target=\"_top\">A photo posted by World MasterCard Fashion Week (@wmcfashionweek)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2015-03-27T22:36:28+00:00\">Mar 27, 2015 at 3:36pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014While winter-weary Canadians are desperate to welcome warmer weather, homegrown fashion designers are already longing for the cooler seasons ahead.<\/p>\n<p>At Toronto&#8217;s World MasterCard Fashion Week, the country&#8217;s emerging and established talents presented their visions for dressing Canadians next fall and winter, from the gym to the office and after-hours.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of five notable trends from the runway:<\/p>\n<h6>Fur real<\/h6>\n<p>From trim collars and cropped tops to full-scale fur coats and hats, the luxurious material reaffirmed its status as a perennial cold-weather favourite.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond black, white and neutral shades, designers didn&#8217;t shy away from cranking up the colour.<\/p>\n<p>Farley Chatto, Mikhael Kale and Malorie Urbanovitch were among those adding bold infusions of red, green and blue to the furs featured on their respective runways.<\/p>\n<h6>Fall into spring<\/h6>\n<p>Softer shades typically tied to the spring season will be colouring fall-winter styles later this year.<\/p>\n<p>While black remains the undisputed champ as a go-to hue for designers, regardless of the season, many brightened their collections with pale pink, blue and lavender shades, as well as more vivid jewel tones.<\/p>\n<p>Kale, Hayley Elsaesser, Melissa Nepton and Sunny Fong&#8217;s VAWK label heartily embraced colour in their collections.<\/p>\n<h6>Pump up the volume<\/h6>\n<p>Turn it up to 11. Many designers had fun amping up the shapes and silhouettes of their creations with dramatic use of draping and sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Langdon, executive director of the Toronto Fashion Incubator, pointed to Sid Neigum&#8217;s inventive use of modular origami and Kale&#8217;s intricate beading and embroidery as prime examples of texture and visual interest.<\/p>\n<p>Rudsak also dialled up the volume with its cocoon-like funnel collars and fur-trimmed hoods.<\/p>\n<h6>Patterns with pop<\/h6>\n<p>Many designers were clearly in a festive mood with whimsical party-worthy patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Narces brought a fun, flirty feel to formal wear with red-lip prints dotted on short-sleeved dresses.<\/p>\n<p>Elsaesser also delivered an audacious mix of inventive graphic prints, spanning from snakes to leopards to cowboy hats on 8-balls.<\/p>\n<h6>Sporty spice<\/h6>\n<p>The athleisure trend is still very much in the fashion game.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of activewear brand Lole at Fashion Week showed that athletic apparel has widespread appeal beyond workout gear.<\/p>\n<p>Nepton also displayed her signature sporty chic with vintage-style track suits and leather-panelled leggings.<\/p>\n<h6>Online<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmastercardfashionweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldmastercardfashionweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo posted by World MasterCard Fashion Week (@wmcfashionweek) on Mar 27, 2015 at 3:36pm PDT TORONTO\u2014While winter-weary Canadians are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion-and-beauty","mauthors-lauren-la-rose","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}