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In February and March, fashion capitals around the world including New York, Milan, London, and Paris hosted prestigious week-long fashion marathons where influential and highly-respected designers showcased their collections for the upcoming fall and winter seasons. It’s a high point of the year for styleconnoisseurs around the globe.
Although not one of the “big four,” Vancouver also holds a successful fashion week of its own. This year’s show took place from March 16 – 22, marking the 12th year of the Vancouver show. A total of 62 emerging Canadian and international designers gathered to flaunt their fall and winter lines. Included among these talented creators were a handful of Vancouver-based designers who brought a fresh, new outlook for fashion in the city.
Designs by Alex S. Yu
One local standout this year was Alex S. Yu. Having appeared at Vancouver Fashion Week once before in 2014, Alex is asserting himself as a creative, passionate, and talented local designer. The playful and youthful garments from his brand ALEX S. YU matched the upbeat energy of the room, as attendees cheered and clapped. His innovative use of brightly coloured fabric transformed the modern garments into quirky, attention-grabbing, yet wearable works of art. Alex seems to have found his niche as he continues to create garments that explore the fine line between fantasy and reality.
The youngest and perhaps most audacious designer was Kate Miles. This mere 15 year old travelled from Oregon for the launch ofher brand,Kate’s Couture. Her collection astounded the audience; models floated down the runway dressed in romantic, avant-garde wedding gowns. Each and every dress was a treasure in itself, with the detail and precision Kate had poured into it. Sequins, tulle, and velvet were the dominant elements of her work, creating a beautiful juxtaposition between old and new. Kate made great sacrifices to be able to present under the marquis at the Queen Elizabeth Theater, as she reportedly sold her horse and several gowns destined for future college savings to fund her debut appearance.
Vancouver Fashion Week was a great success due to the diverse range of collections. Each designer brought a unique style aesthetic and concept to the table, while remaining true to a common theme of texture. The bold and unconventional concepts displayed throughout the week eliminated the unfashionable Vancouver stereotype of fleece, gore-tex, and yoga pants once and for all!
Swedish director Ruben Östlund isn’t letting us get away with anything. Watching his work, viewers are pushed to examine their weakest moments, to relive their failures and regrets, and to acknowledge themselves as they are—for better or for worse. Best-known for his acclaimed breakthrough feature, Force Majeure (2014), Östlund has directed a variety of films, each challenging, poignant, and darkly funny. This month at The Cinemateque, audiences can experience some of his finest at “In Case of No Emergency,” a retrospective dedicated entirely to the award-winning director.
On the program are four features and two shorts. Highlights include Play (2011), which won a Swedish Oscar for its controversial account of black teenagers harassing white and Asian youths, and Ostlund’s award-winning debut, The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), a story of nonconformity enacted by a non-professional cast.
The grand finale, of course, is Force Majeure, the winner of last year’s Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. Set against the impressive backdrop of the French Alps, Force Majeure is the story of a family torn apart by one man’s irreparable mistake. In this powerful and surprising production, Östlund demonstrates how the consequences of an isolated incident can touch and threaten to destroy the lives of many. Like the very avalanche around which the film is centred, the events of a single moment quickly grow into an awe-striking and all-consuming force of destruction.
In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben Östlund takes place March 12-14, 19-21 at The Cinematheque. Click for details and show times.
There were three experts and then there was me, on the fringe. We huddled in chill February air around a clutch of worksheets made for ranking denim; a scale from 1 to 5, which referred to a host of measures I’d neither heard of before nor would have considered valuable had it crossed my mind. Lined up along the sidewalk, backs to the brick, stood seventeen bold humans, in seventeen pairs of admirably worn-in jeans. It was our job, experts plus me, to judge.
The reason? Gastown’s dutil. Denim runs a yearly “Fade-In Contest,” in which the moderately cultish world of raw denim celebrates fidelity to the jean.
thanks to Jenn Campbell for all photos
If you don’t wash your raw denim jeans for a year, maybe more, then they will be rank anddutil. Denim will rank them. There were actually a total of seven judges, since dutil. runs an online version of the contest as well. But for our in-store purposes, there were just us four, and I’ll happily admit that I was hopelessly outclassed.
These are men of passionate expertise, whose sartorial acumen is second only to their deep understanding of denim production processes: where the cotton is grown, how the cloth is manufactured and under what conditions the prototype is tested. These are men whose business cards reflect their denim-based ideologies: a penchant for durability, weight and style. Matt Townsend, from Nudie Jeans, David Strong from Freenote Cloth, and Jeffrey Lee from Doublewood Project each came, in their own ways, close to proselytizing, so fervent was their belief in their product.
Mathes, Townsend, Strong and Lee
And why not? If blue jeans are the most democratic of wearables, then these hard-working, sophisticated men were making a claim for inclusivity even as they made clear that raw denim is about one thing, and one thing only: that those who wear it be passionate, too. So passionate, in fact, that the prohibition against washing has been elevated to an art.
Perhaps not democracy, then, but pure meritocracy.
winners of dutil. denim’s ‘fade in’ contest
For the measure of a perfect pair is contrast, which means preserving that dye—never letting it seep out in the wash—in all the right places, and letting the white of the weft come through in others.
The marks of a perfectly worn-in pair of raw denim jeans? Patterns of wear and preserved dye that attest to the patterns of a body in motion. Honey-combing, behind the knees, from the denim bending and crinkling; whiskering, a kind of starbursting out from the top of the thigh and over the front pockets, which is produced by sitting, bending at the waist, picking up that which has fallen, tying your shoes. There is stacking, marks that form when the jeans are too long and bunch along the ankles, and then there is pocket fade, front or back, in the shape (almost exclusively) of an iPhone.
The winners walked away with new jeans, c/o the brand sponsors, and I walked away with a sense that, if one means to live a life of strong and passionate ideals, one could do worse that to take up selvedge denim as a symbol of that intention.
Catwalk dream-team, Yuriko Iga and Keiko Boxall. Photo Credit: Zed Studio7
Yuriko Iga is the dreamer behind and founder of BLIM, everyone’s favourite hub of creativity in Chinatown. She curated our #Catwalk launch party, and regularly hosts the lovely BLIM markets around Vancouver. BLIM is undeniably a space that could’ve only originated in the loveliest of brains. This is Yuriko’s take on how BLIM came to exist as it does today, and her goals for moving forward.
1. You were crucial in organizing our fantastic Cat Issue launch party. Could you describe your role for me? What was your favourite part of planning the Catwalk?
I designed and created some of the items, the rest I curated – fashion curator or stylist. Favourite part is putting together the outfits, and choosing the music.
2. Tell me about BLIM. What is it? How would you describe it as an organization?
BLIM is an independent, family-run art and craft facility now located in the heart of Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown. Our aim is to help build community through the spirit of fun and creativity, making the arts and crafts accessible to a wide range of skill sets and aims.
Blim retail consists of unique cosmic apparel handmade and hand printed exclusively by Blim. All product is made in our Blim studio and print shop. We also have a very selective line of vintage and dead stock as well at blim.bigcartel.com
3. How long has BLIM been around? How did it come to be?
Since 2003.
[From Blim’s website] Imagined at age 4, Blim founder Yuriko Iga created her imaginary animal kingdom of humanized animals wearing funky clothes called Blim Blim. She kept her imaginary world a secret until her early adult years. She eventually realized that she wanted to share her vision with the rest of the world. She dropped the other Blim and made it one.
Yuriko is very inspired by early 80’s hip hop style, japanese pop aesthetic, avant garde fashion, new wave music, animals, 80’s graphics, candy, and bright colors.
4. What are your goals for BLIM?
1) Maintaining studio and fun workshops for the creatively hungry.
2) Maintaining the shop to serve all your cat, sloth, unicorn, dinosaur, weed, goth, pop, comic, holographic, rainbow, metallic, egyptian, aztec, harajuku, neon, animal needs.
Fashions from the Catwalk: curated by Yuriko Iga and Keiko Boxall. Photo Credit: Lily Ditchburn
5. What’s something that people don’t know about BLIM that they should?
35% Blim made, 15 % local artists brands , 25% Japan and Asian import, 10% designer deadstock, 15% vintage, = 100% random awesomeness!
6. Is there a certain culture that BLIM promotes?
Culture from another dimension. That was what someone who came into the shop said and it stuck with me! But in a nutshell, [Blim is] 80’s 90’s hip hop style, japanese street fashion, avant garde fashion, new wave music, cats, dogs, wild cats, unicorns, sloths, dinosaurs, fast food, animals, 80’s graphics, candy, and bright colors, rainbow, Lisa Frank, cult art, comics, cartoons, texture, Marble print, psychedelic art, raver culture.
7. How and when did you start putting together the monthly BLIM markets? We love them.
Since 2003. We used to do them in the penthouse of the old electrical building. The ceiling panels were painted in ornamental stencils, there was a 10x10x10 white cube to display objects or use as gallery. The pong room was black lacquered and house the ping pong table with the same palette. Out of the pong room we served grilled savoury mochi with nori and cheese, vegetarian quejos with avocado and umbeboshi salt, and special shortbread cookies…
You can catch BLIM’s next market at Heritage Hall this Sunday! SAD Mag will be there with our new Cat Issue and discounted subscriptions on sale for $20!
Sad Mag sits down with the founder and master of literary “Realness”, Sean Cranbury, about their five year anniversary party this Saturday.
SAD Mag: First of all, congrats on turning 5! We are co-toddlers in this city, also turning 5 this year. Can you tell me a bit about where you were in 2009 and how Real Vancouver started? There are rumors that Real Vancouver was born in a burning building. Is that true?
Sean Cranbury: Thank you for the kind words. In 2009 I was beginning to build projects like Real Vancouver Writers’ Series via my main project Books on the Radio, a radio show, blog, and literary project incubator.
That year (2009) I had created BOTR, helped to plan the first Bookcamp Vancouver Unconference, created the Advent Book Blog, and I also started writing and speaking publicly on things like digital file-sharing, piracy. It was a creative time and I had a certain amount of momentum.
In early 2010, with the Olympics on the doorstep, I helped to create the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series as a response to the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad’s decision to ignore our city’s incredible and world-class literary community with their programming during the games.
Fire with Fire by Isabelle Hayeur
The original Olympics Editions of the RVWS were held in the Perel Gallery in the W2 Culture and Media House at 112 West Hastings Street. The building was the site for an installation by Quebec artist Isabel Hayeur. The piece was called Fire with Fire and it consisted of a digital projection of flames looping across the windows of the building’s top three floors.
It’s a powerful image and one that reflects the circumstances of our origin.
SM: Give us a snapshot of where you are now:
SC: Real Vancouver is growing but still very much a grassroots, volunteer-based literary reading series. We are now a non-profit society with a Board of Directors that we’re very proud of and who will help to steer the series into the future.
We’re still putting on events with the best writers in the city and we’re still collaborating with the likes of Project Space, Verses Festival of Words, Geist, SAD Mag, and others.
We’re still learning but we’re getting there.
SM: And what’s on your hit list for the next 5 years?
SC: We’re looking at doing unique events and collaborations that draw in other art forms and interesting, perhaps unexpected, venues. We’ll stay true to our roots by supporting emerging writers and more contemporary voices from across genres, schools, and sensibilities, and mixing poetry with non-fiction, fiction, memoir, spoken word, short stories, whatever people who are talented with the language are producing.
We’re going to get better and we’re going to try new things and we’re going to try to change people’s perceptions of what a literary reading can be.
SM: Tell us what we can expect by attending the 5 year anniversary party this Saturday at 434 Columbia.
SC: Good times! You’re going to be in a room full of good music, great writing, and even better people. We’ve got lots of prizes and gifts to give away. We’ve got a special occasion license and we’ll be selling beer and wine. And books. But even those things are beside the point.
We’re going to have a warm room full of great and talented people.
You’ll hear some of the best contemporary writing in the city and country and you’ll get to meet great new friends. It’s going to be an amazing night.
SM: All of your authors at these events are outstanding, but is there one particular reading you are extra excited about?
SC: I’m more interested in the chemistry that we can create on the stage and in the room by curating the placement of the writers throughout the night. Any time you can put put Chris Walter on same stage as Jennica Harper and Jen Sookfong Lee you’ve got yourself an interesting mixture. Sun Belt is a very interesting project and I’m curious to see what they do. I know that Daniel and Dina have something weird and probably ridiculous planned. The roster is stacked. I can’t wait.
SM: In your opinion, what is the single most important thing someone can do to help the literary scene in vancouver become the pinnacle of awesome?
SC: Come out to one of our events, or to any of the other amazing literary events that are currently being put on in Vancouver, and meet writers. Talk to them, listen to them reader their work, buy their books, take them home with you – the writers and the books, I mean.
We want to reduce the distance between the writer and the fan. We want to create a new kind of intimacy in the world of literature and books. Books and writing are very sexy things and we want people to understand and explore that perspective.
Read the books, share them with your friends, get to know the writers. Put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. Get involved. Treat it like it matters.
SM: What do you do when you’re not working on Real Vancouver?
I work on my radio show, Books on the Radio, and my podcast, The Interruption, which is a collaboration with 49th Shelf. I also freelance as a communications consultant and I advise arts organizations on technology, social media, and stuff like that.
I am also the General Manager of the Storm Crow Tavern where I work with the greatest team in the city.
Carleigh Baker – indefatigable bookseller, canoeist, confidante of Carrie Brownstein, crafter of memoir. Jennica Harper – poet, RVWS alumni from the original Olympics Editions, pure sunshine. Jen Sookfong Lee – novelist, broadcaster, RVWS alumni from the original Olympics Editions, haunter of hospitality suites. Amber McMillan – poet, islander, friend of many Easterners, our friend, too. Rachel Rose – Poet Laureate of Vancouver, award-winning poet, essayist, fictionist, literary sh*t disturber. Sun Belt – experimental literary multi-media project. Chris Walter – the O.G. of independent authors. Been doing it since before you even thought of it. He wrote East Van, Beer, and I was a Punk Before You Were a Punk. Self-published under GFY Press. RVWS Alumni from the original Olympics Editions. Daniel Zomparelli – yes, that Daniel Zomparelli. Honcho of Poetry Is Dead Magazine, author of Davie Street Translations. Serial collaborator. RVWS Alumni.
We’ll be kicking things off with a feline-inspired fashion show, curated by Blim and Keiko Boxall, at 9PM. Then we’ll knock your cat-themed socks off with a dance number by the infamous Light Twerkerz dancers ft. MC AutoKrat and DJ Rich Nines.
Party hosted by Cynara Geissler: writer, editor, book publicist, and fierce defender of the selfie. Cynara is a print enthusiast (in both reading material and frocks) and her closet houses a litter of cat dresses. She co-hosts Fatties on Ice, an independent feminist podcast on pop culture, film, and new media.
Come early to see the magazine & check out the art show (by Ola Volo), stay late for tunes and drinks. This magazine was created through the generous contributions of countless Vancouver artists, writers, photographers, and cat enthusiasts including:
Contributing Writers
Kristin Cheung
Dina Del Bucchia
Alice Fleerackers
Jackie Hoffart
Megan Jenkins
Adrienne Matei
Kaitlin McNabb
Genevieve Anne Michaels
Nina Paula Morenas
Pamela Rounis
Rebecca Slaven
Farah Tozy
Jennifer Truong
Daryn Wright
Contributing Photographers
Jackie Dives
Angela Fama
Robyn Humphreys
Shane Oosterhoff
Sarah Race
Gilly Russell
Rob Seebacher
Katie Stewart
Jennifer Truong
Contributing Artists
Portia Boehm
Kamila Charters-Gabanek * (not placed)
Kristin Cheung
Shannon Hemmett * (not placed)
Andrea Hooge
Roselina Hung
Pascale Laviolette
Coreena Lewis
Jessie McNeil * (not placed)
Aili Meutzner
Sherwin Sullivan Tija
Ola Volo
Carrie Walker
Contributing Stylists
Leigh Eldridge, Makeup Artist
Jenny-Lynn of Oh Hey Style, Hair Stylist
Monika Koch Waber, Stylist
Contributors to SadMag.ca
Alexandra Bogren
Cianda Bourrel
Alice Fleerackers
Kyla Jamieson
Megan Jenkins
Shmuel Marmorstein
Lise Monique
Cole Nowicki
Shannon Waters
SADCAST: The SAD Mag Podcast
Jackie Hoffart, Producer, Host, Editor
Stu Popp, Co-Host
Board of Directors
Sean Cranbury
Megan Lau
Mac Lugay
Amanda McCuaig
Amanda Lee Smith
Pamela Sheppard
Daniel Zomparelli
Thank yous
The Cobalt
Lily Ditchburn
Rommy Ghaly
Yuriko Iga of BLIM
Lizzy Karp & Rain City Chronicles
MAKE
Madeleine Michaels + Luna the Cat
Mr. Diva
Patrick Winkler
Teresa Watling + Enoki the Cat
VOKRA
Bijou, Nico, Frankie, Mr. Darren Lovenstuff, Indy & Eliot
SAD Mag chats with Jamie Smith about her upcoming collab involving 18 local artists, hundreds of anonymous letters and a whole lotta love.
Shannyn Higgins Photography
SAD Mag: Hi there! So tell us who you are, and a little bit about how the Love Letter Project came to be:
Jamie Smith: I am Jamie Smith. I am an artist myself and I have started getting more involved in creating shows and experiences for people, such as ROVE. Within this community-based art activity I naturally meet lots of different people, one of them being Fiona McGlynn.
Fiona and I met because we were at a little dinner with a group called Loaded Bow, run by a group of sweet ladies who do lots of interesting things in the city. At the dinner, we all had to share a story and so I shared a confession. I had just finished a project called “Confessions” where I painted different anonymous confessions and so I read someone’s anonymous confession as my story. Fiona read a love letter from someone else–also anonymous—so afterward we both came together and thought, “Ok, who are you and what do you do?” (laughs).
She had started a project and a blog, based on her own experience. She was going through a difficult time and didn’t really have a lot of direction and people gave her all sorts of advice, but a mentor said to her, “Why don’t you stop worrying so much about yourself and instead think about how you might make something better for someone else?” And that clicked, so she thought about her life, and difficulties, and her parents’ divorce when she was young, which was really hard on her. So she decided to write a children’s book, to help kids navigate around divorce. Surprisingly, there are very few books that deal with divorce.
The book is beautifully illustrated, so very kid-friendly, but really about communicating the message: “it’s not your fault.” So this jumpstarted her life in a totally different direction: then she thought, what if I gave people a platform where other people could write letters about an experience they had, but directed at someone else going through a similar problem? So that’s how The Love Letter Project blog, started! Now it’s been a year and there have been over 180 letters from all across the world.
SM: And so are these old-school letters, with pen and papers and coming through the post? Sorry, I’m totally an analog girl over here.
JS: No actually, most of them come through online. That being said, they’ve done different letter-writing parties at a community center and that’s all hand written letter writing. Whether they’re submitted online or in person, the letters are written to help others overcome life’s greatest challenges. Topics cover many areas of life including relationship, loss, self image, illness, and many others. Authors can write anonymously or under their own name. Letters are then posted on www.theloverletterproject.ca where readers can go to find support and encouragement, and be inspired to create change in their lives.
SM: That sounds amazing! What can people expect at the opening tonight at Omega Gallery?
JS: What you can expect is a spectacular little event in a cute, small venue that is perfect for an art show/book launch. The art show includes all of the works which appear in the book, with the letter displayed beside it. Each artist chose a letter that resonated with them and responded to it in a 20 x 20 canvas. If you feel moved to purchase a piece, all of the funds go directly back to the artist and the book sales go back into producing other Love Letter Projects. We’re going to have beer and wine for $5 and cupcakes for $3–then of course all of the art with the letters.
DEETS:
Friday February 6, 2015 from 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Omega Gallery (4290 Dunbar St.)
FREE
RSVP here
The Capture Photography festival is in the works, hitting Vancouver full-swing with a knock-out line-up of photo shows, events, and workshops during the whole month of April. But for now, you can support the festival–and help make is even more amazing–by attending their fancy-pants Capture Photography Festival Annual Fundraiser.
For those who love all things miniature (as much as we do), Capture’s Annual Fundraiser marks the launch of ‘Mini” Artist Editions, while being hosted at the MINI Canada dealership in Yaletown. Along with the chance to go home with a mini photo series, you could also have yourself immortalized in mini-bust form by local 3D-printing company Tinkerine.
The Tinkerine team will be onsite capturing scans and printing complimentary miniature 3D busts of each attendee. In addition to cocktails and canapés, guests will graze on food and wine from Gotham Steakhouse and premium wines, and have the opportunity to speak with Capture’s participating artists and galleries.
Funds raised go towards Capture’s programming and installations, including major works at the Dal Grauer Substation, Lonsdale Quay, and other public spaces. Tickets for the Annual Fundraiser are on sale now through Eventbrite. Though the ticket prices may not be “mini”, we still think this event is going to be an amazing boost for the photo community in Vancouver.
The Essentials
The 2015 Capture Photography Festival Annual Fundraiser
When: February 5, 2015, 7:30–10:00 pm Where: MINI Yaletown, 1039 Hamilton Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 5T4 Ticket price: $175
I’m painfully on time for everything, so I arrive at Yuk Yuks for Yo! Vancity Laughs Vol.9 with a friend at 7pm sharp. Which is great, except it turns out that it doesn’t actually start until 8pm. So we grab a seat and chat as we watch the night’s comics filter in.
Two of the comics, who turn out to be the show’s MCs (and who will later transform into their glib hip hop alter egos, Game Genies, complete with literal money bags, a Tupac mask, and a comically large watch that I could have used earlier…) come over and introduce themselves.
Gracious and welcoming, they joke that they want to say hello because, in a minute, we’re going to think they’re “really ignorant.”
And in a minute the show does start, but they don’t start it – because no proper hip hop show starts without a hype man. As I learn the minute the show starts. Then, once we’re all hyped up, Game Genies take the stage.
“If you’re here tonight this means you must love comedy, and you must love hip hop,” they exclaim. “Who is your all time favourite hip hop artist?”
With their pick of people who look like they hail from Kitsilano, they choose a young woman who doesn’t manage to dart her eyes away fast enough.
“I like musicals?” She says, in the kind of adorable upspeak that gets the other guy the job.
But the hosts are charming and adept at loosening up a crowd, and the diverse pool of talented comics doesn’t hurt, either: Devon Alexander, Kwasi Thomas, Jonny Paul (who is never more charming than in those improvisational moments brought on by “helpful” audience members), Brendan Bourque, and headliner, Patrick Maliha (who does one dope urban impression that is as natural as me typing dope – but it was hilarious).
By the end, the audience is as comfortable screaming “How old school iz you” as they are asking if that loaf of bread is gluten free. The only thing the show was wrong about is that you have to love hip hop to have a great time – you don’t. You just have to love comedy and let yourself get swept up in the hype.
For information about upcoming shows, visit: yukyuks.com
The annual Blim Holiday Market is back! Join us and 48 local vendors at the Fox Cabaret on Saturday December 20th from 12 – 5pm for shopping, snacks, and Santa Garfield.
The Blim holiday market is the place to be, even if you’ve managed to finish your holiday shopping in November like a champ – it’s a cozy, intimate gathering of some of Vancouver’s most thoughtful and talented creators and collectors. You can expect handmade accessories, jewelry, vintage clothes and knick knacks, cards, gifts, and sweets to be abound amidst the glorious glow of the Santa Garfield photobooth.
There’ll be hot food prepared in-house by Japanese cook Open Sesame, and two free raffle draws at 2pm and 4pm. We’ll also be there selling back issue magazines, subscriptions, and gift packs at a discount! Feel free to swing by for a hang out or a high five.
As per usual, our vendors are going to be on top of their game. Here’s three to peruse:
Sleepless Mindz
Sleepless Mindz will be selling short- and long-sleeve T-shirts, denim jackets, denim shorts, and bandanas. Some of them are reversible, some of them are patched, and all of them are awesome.
Rachel Rainbow will be attending, selling accessories and jewelry! Shrink-plastic geometric unicorn earrings, tassels, and necklaces. Rachel Rainbow is grounded in whimsy, nostalgia, and fanciful colours, and as described by Rachel, is created for pretending.
Aomori Workshop will be on site with natural body soaps, shampoo bars, chapsticks and more. From ginger to australian coral, these handmade goods are perfect to check off the rest of the friends on your gift list. Everything is reasonably priced and smells delicious. Aomori also takes orders for bridal showers, weddings, and other events.
To find out more about the Blim Holiday Market, follow @blimblimblim and hashtag #blimmarket on Twitter. Admission is by donation.
