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From Shanghai With Love…and Fashion. I’ll just call it Shanghai Vogue. The Fall/Winter season of the Vancouver Fashion Week 2011 FW2011 featured a number of Chinese designers from Shanghai – China Beauty, Open Black by Helen Lee and La Vie by Jenny Ji. These three are well-known names in Chinese fashion scene and now they are here in Vancouver and delighted many who had come to catch the final night of the VFW FW 2011 show on April 17, 2011.

China Beauty featured models moving around with flowing shawls of traditional oriental designs. Not surprisingly, Jenny Ji displayed her La Vie collection of elegant wedding dresses often decorated with Swarovski items. Helen Lee broke new ground for herself with her latest Open Black collection that reflected a modern sensibility that her home country has experienced in recent times.

VIDEO – Shanghai Vogue at VFW Fall/Winter 2011

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Internationally-known fashion designer Eva Chen has established herself as one of the premier Vancouver designers for one-of-a-kind haute couture. Every time Eva announces a new collection, many fashion-watchers eagerly await. Her latest Liberté (French: Liberty) Leather Collection offers a unique cutting and style that once again reflected a distinctiveness which Eva Chen Couture is famous for – edgy, fashionable and yet very comfortable to be in it. Just like many of the same qualities that a high-end auto often strives for. It is no surprise that Eva Chen Couture is presented by Brian Jessel Autohaus.

Liberté! Set yourself free in Eva Chen’s newest collection of exquisitely tailored leatherwear that combines the best craftsmanship of Europe, Asia and North America.

VIDEO – Eva Chen LIBERTÉ! LEATHER Collection @ VFW FW 2011

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Vancouver Fashion Week VFW Fall/Winter 2011 (FW 2011) collection opened with some very impressive display of local clothing-design talents. One of the highlights of the evening featured on opening day (April 13, 2011) catwalk runway was Lace Embrace Atelier. Canadian designer Melanie Talkington started the company after graduating from Kwantlen Polytechnics University in 1997 and later worked in Los Angels, California to craft wardrobe and corsets for pin up and burlesque models Dita Von Tesse, Cathie Jung etc. and in the Warner Bros Hollywood movie production of Sucker Punch. Lace Embrace Atelier is still based in Vancouver Canada. The other designers at VFW FW 2011 first night runway included the exquisite work of Vancouver designers Patricia Fieldwalker and Valerio Moda and from Spain, Rosalita McGee.

VIDEO – Lace Embrace Atelier Corsets @ VFW FW 2011 Opening

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Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW) Fall/Winter FW 2011 Opening Gala took place on Apr. 12 at 7PM and being launched at the Sutton Place Hotel in downtown Vancouver. VFW billed itself as Canada’s ‘West Coast’s most prestigious industry event’, creating an avenue ‘where designers, buyers, and media from East to West may connect and propose business.’

Many talented local designers such as Queenie Luo, Sarah Runnalls, Hawks Ave (Eco), Papillon Eastern, Eva Chen, The Trues, Valerio Moda and Drew William will display their latest creations. Patricia FIeldwalker not only retunred this year, the designer also took the initiative to host a charity drive to benefit victims of the Japan earthquake disaster and nuclear crisis. Hats designers such as Sova Hats and others also complimented some designers’ dresses. International designers from both Europe and Asia will also be present. The main catwalk and runway show is being staged at the Empire Landmark Hotel.

This season in particular will see an unprecedented number of high profile Chinese designers from Shanghai. Names such as Helen Lee, Jenny Ji, Xu Yan Hui etc. are familiar to fashion-watchers knowledgeable in the Asian fashion scene. Really, who can ignore China, the largest consumer market in the world and one that is rapidly growing as well? The Shanghai designers will dominate much of the Sunday evening. From Korea, Ha Sang Beg is returning again and Pauline Van Dongen from the Netherlands will also debut a collection. Check Vancouver Fashion Week for full details.

Photos by Ray Van Eng / Vancouver21.com. For more images go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayvaneng/sets/72157626363961291/
































































































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Vancouver Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011 Gala Opening is tonight (April 12) 7PM at Sutton Place Hotel on Burrard and Smithe in downtown Vancouver. VFW FW2011 will take place from April 12-17, 2011.

At Vancouver21.com, we’ll be hard at work the whole week to bring you the latest photos, videos, blogs and more!

Designer Sermin Sesoren and model, Vancouver Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 Opening Gala on Nov. 02, 2010. [Photo by Ray Van Eng / Getty Images]

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In less than a week, the Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW) Fall/Winter 2011 will take place once again at the Empire Landmark Hotel in downtown Vancouver from April 12-17, 2011. Not only local and Canadian designers are going to debut their fabric (and some leather) creations here, designers from other parts of the world like Asia, America and Europe are also increasingly finding it attractive to come to this Western Canada premier fashion event to showcase their latest designs. Part of that could be attributed to the success of last year’s Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games which has created such a positive global reputation for the city. Now, VFW is a truly international fashion event and is beginning to align itself more in line with other world-renewed fashion shows as the ones in New York, London, Paris etc.

At Vancouver21.com, we produced the #1 and #2 MOST POPULAR Vancouver Fashion Week Videos EVER! [Video Producer: Ray Van Eng / Vancouver21.com]

So which one is #1? I shall let you know in a few days. If you are impatient, you could find that out easy enough at the Youtube site just by typing Vancouver fashion Week and see which one has the most view counts. Hint: it is also produced by Ray Van Eng / Vancouver21.com.

VIDEO – #2 Most Popular VFW Online Video (view counts: 7,800 and counting)

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Vancouver fashion design powerhouse Jacqueline Conoir celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Ferrari Maserati auto-dealership showroom in Vancouver on March 29, 2011. The fashion event attracted a supportive crowd of fashionistas, media and the clothing-buying public. The night started off with a display of Jacqueline Conoir’s Fall/Winter 2011 collection and then after a brief interlude with a violinist, a backdrop of three 8-feet tall letters in lower case, j, a and c were brought out. Without further ado, the host announced the launch of a brand new line – ‘jac’. A troop of models strutted the catwalk wearing the amazing brand new design of ready-to-wear clothing geared towards a younger demographics. The crowd of about 300 loved it and gave great compliments afterwards. All joined in to celebrate the first 25 years of distinctive work in women’s wear by fashion designer Rozemerie Cuevas and many of the hard-working people at Jacqueline Conoir.

VIDEO – Jacqualine Conoir 25th Anniversary Launch of ‘jac’

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PART 4 & 5 conclude the 2010 Blanche Macdonald Centre catwalk runway fashion show also known as Fashion Forecast 2010. The fashion school presented more than 40 graduate students designs on November 30, 2010 at The Westin Bayshore Vancouver. The BMC event attracted a number of high-profile sponsors, some of which are fashion icons. The list includes Lancome Paris, Flare, L’Oreal Paris, Maybelline New York, Yves Saint Laurent and Ron Sombilon Gallery.

[Technical notes: Fashion Video Shoot using Sony VG10, the world’s first interchangeable lens Handycam known for its top-notch image quality and that distinctive cinema-like shallow depth-of-field. Video producer: Ray Van Eng.]

VIDEO – Blanche Macdonald Fashion Forecast 2010 (PART 4)

VIDEO – Blanche Macdonald Fashion Forecast 2010 (PART 5)

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This is Part 3 of the Blanche Macdonald Fashion Show (Fashion Forecast 2010) that featured more than 40 of the fashion school’s student designers’ work. Altogether there are five parts to this series of videos that were shot at the Westin Bayshore Vancouver on November 30, 2010. The BMC event attracted a number of high-profile sponsors, some of which are fashion icons. The list includes Lancome Paris, Flare, L’Oreal Paris, Maybelline New York, Yves Saint Laurent and Ron Sombilon Gallery.

[Technical notes: Fashion shoot using the Sony VG10, the world's first interchangeable lens Handycam known for its top-notch image quality and the exquisite cinema-like shallow depth-of-field. Video producer: Ray Van Eng.]

VIDEO – Blanche Macdonald Fashion Forecast 2010 (PART 3)


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