Perhaps most obvious, Erdem. The current darling of the London fashion scene, having dressed everyone from MK Olsen to Michelle Obama. This Montreal native and friend is clearly a fashion fixture with a long and successful career ahead of him.
Rad Hourani also comes to mind. The avant-garde Montrealer best know for his androgynous vision of fashion. With disciples (and himself) oft featured on many a streetstyle blog - he too is clearly one to watch.
Mark Fast. Best known for his revolutionary knits and for sending size 12 models (gasp) down the runway - this Canadian is a Winnipeg native and London transplant.
Todd Lynn. Best summarized as Rock Star designer. His enviable list of bespoke clients includes the likes of Janet Jackson, Bono, Marilyn Manson and Mick Jagger.
Other note-worthy, up-and-comers in the Canadian design arena are: Jean-Pierre Braganza, Jeremy Laing, Calla Haynes and Thomas Tait.Moving on to media-moguls. Before there were superstar bloggers such as Tommy Ton (another Toronto native and clearly no need to expand), there was Tim Blanks. All Canadian fashion followers worth their salt grew up on a steady diet of Tim Blanks' Fashionfile features. Since his departure the show has kind of crashed and burned - but the legendary fashion journalist can now be found contributing at style.com.
Leith Clark Lula Magazine founder/editor and freelance stylist. With a girly dream-scape vision of the fashion world and a cult following to boot - Leith Clark now calls London home and Chanel styling er... her job? Lucky girl.
And finally a relative newcomer but absolute digital media heavy-weight - Imran Amed. Better know as founder and editor of fashion blog, Business of Fashion. Of everyone on the list - this is who's blackberry I'd most like to steal!
Of course who could possibly discuss Canadian fashion without mentioning the maaw-dels! Oops! I mean SUPER models. The list is looooooong. And you know the names. (Daria, Coco, Irina, Stam, Linda.....) And if you've even made it to the end of this exceptionally long post you should win some kind of prize... like some expensive Erdem dress sponsored give-away by some hot Canadian shopping site. Ergh. Except there aren't any?? Sigh. Happy Canada Day to all you lovely Canadians out there!sources: BOF, The Canadian School, Charlotte Player