I attended the Blooming Affair fashion show at the last minute. The event was fun, but the show itself was fairly predictable and drab, as it catered mainly to the Chatelaine woman. The clothing were mundane incarnations of fashion basics seen time and time again. With the exception of JBU, the clothing displayed very little, if any elements of contemporary fashion at all. The only beacon of light, and saving grace in my opinion, for the lackluster show, was the creative performance and design for Iris eyewear.
Mouths dropped in the solemn room full of conservative socialites, after edgy music queued the racy “Catwalk of Shame”. Middle aged women were in a fevered flurry over a scantily clad man wearing nothing but a bathing-suit (the size of an eye patch) and delicate female models parading about in oversized men’s dress-shirts, all adorned with a pair of chic designer sunglasses. I’m pretty sure the MC even had to summon the crowd to lower their voices after the lights dimmed and the Iris models left the stage. The person responsible for this masterpiece -- Neil Moser, a man who knows how to bring personality, presents and style to any room.
Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton 2009 Paris Fashion Week (left).
Neil Moser for Iris 2009 Kitchener Ontatio (right).
What can I say, great minds think alike.
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