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Scroll down for the full photo gallery from the second annual VON Exposure Fashion and Art Exhibition on Oct. 4. Stephen Hargreaves Managing Editor ‘F’ is for Fashion Every year as the weather grows cold, Windsor rolls out the runways and fashion gets hot. Last week’s Exposure Fashion and Art Exhibition show at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts ushered in the latest designs from Windsor couturiers. Featuring a mix of local boutiques and designers including event co-orginizer Ana Stulic, the show acted as a fundraising initiative of the Windsor-Essex branch of Victorian Order of Nurses. Though, like any...
Sara Howie ARTS EDITOR Hide your Uggs and sweat pants, the University of Windsor Fashion Police are on stealth patrol and posting our fashion failings on Twitter. A new Twitter account, @uWinFashionPoli, sprung up this summer driving fear into the fashion conscious around campus. “It started as a joke, we were studying for a summer class and we said ‘You know what? That girl’s outfit is a joke.’ It started out by seeing really poorly dressed people,” said one of the Twitter account creators, called ‘R’ to protect the identity of the constable of campus chic. Seven people are responsible...
Natasha Marar EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Windsor fashion designers are putting their threads on the catwalk of a fashion show set to support a local charity and expose homegrown talent. The Windsor-Essex branch of Victorian Order of Nurses is hosting Exposure Art and Fashion Exhibition this Thursday at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts. The second annual event is VON’s largest fundraiser. Last year’s event raised about $5,000 for the organization’s Detour program, aimed at improving respite care for the elderly. Thursday’s instalment will benefit their Supportive Housing and Home Health programs. “It’s going to be like no other fashion show anyone’s...
Harvesting the FAM Festival returns with a new schedule and cash for bands Stephen Hargreaves MANAGING EDITOR Harvesting the FAM Festival, the ever evolving festival of independent fashion, film, arts and music is moving into its seventh instalment starting Friday, though with a few changes. “The spirit of the festival has remained very much the same, I think it always will,” said FAM Fest organizer Murad Erzinclioglu, who admits that organizing this year’s festival has been challenging. He is responsible for most of the logistical elements of FAM and has been trying to weave the planning in between work, school...
