When FAT, or rather Fashion Art Toronto, started, the A stood for Alternative. This year, they’ve dropped that moniker, and they’re better for it.
FAT sometimes feels like the entry level of fashion in Toronto. It is home to the Gaga approach to art, and monsters there be aplenty. It’s welcoming, non hierarchical and overall a celebration of artists’ work.
Organizer Vanja Vasic understands how to put on a good show, use a space to its fullest potential and then finish the week off by giving the designers a full day to sell!
If only the mainstream, sponsorsized Fashion Design Council of Canada could understand this.
The FAT week launched with an installation at the Drake Lab 1142 Queen West location on Sunday night.
The FAT Lab Space was fitted out with the work of 5 artists: Marlene Hilton Moore, Andrew Owen A01, Sai Sivanesan with Kat Marks, Sailor Delany and Benjamin David Pettipas.
Work by Sailor Delany. We’re hoping the gas masks had some significance.
Andrew Owen‘s 2nd Live Collective Photo-Cubic Portrait Tableau.
The Drake Lab hosts FAT Lab Space. Exterior shot, duh.
Photographs by Sai Sivanesan fashion photographer in collaboration with Kat Marks fashion designer. Très Blade Runner, no?
“Made To Measure 2” by Marlene Hilton Moore, who’s audiovisual installation wasn’t working as we walked through the space.
Nothing like some good old Irish luck for an opening. This leprechaun has even gone digital.
FAT house DJ Daniel Wilson and PR maven Sonja Andic at the launch “after” party at Church on Queen.
Photos by Stefania Yarhi
