“We’ve put together a dynamic schedule of virtual runway shows from five talented designers who are expanding boundaries around gender norms, sharing sustainable alternatives and who are creatively using fashion to make powerful social statements,” says Vanja Vasic, executive director/founder of FAT.
The production and filming of the shows will feature a limited in-person crew, with social distancing guidelines and safety regulations in place. Models will be doing their own hair and makeup, with the crew providing masks to all models, designers and team members., will be kicking off Fashion Art Toronto’s 2020 Virtual Runway Show on Monday with a collection “inspired by the recent modern-day lynchings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
When Vanja reached out and said that this virtual show was going to happen, the uprisings in the States had just started. It was heart-wrenching and shattering to be processing all of the information that was coming through Instagram and Twitter and also having to create a collection, so I think I was sort of working through the grief through fashion. It was like a therapy of sorts.
As I was working through the imagery of these people who had passed away, I saw how people were communicating through visual arts their veneration of the victims. A lot of the visual arts posited them as saints of the Black Lives Matter movement. That was something that really resonated with me. So I constructed angelic-like silhouettes, very large, very pouffy silhouettes in some of the pieces, to communicate that.
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