David Dixon – Great White North de Luxe!

How Canadian is Canadian Fashion Week? Is sitting around a bonfire, wrapped in Bay blankets, drinking hot chocolate and watching clean, cutting edge style while a choir soulfully sings Kumbaya, Canuk enough for ya? Set in the courtyard of the Liberty complex, David Dixon chose to show his collection in truly creative Canadian style.

Models in cloche hats circle the fire wearing luxurious wools, handcut appliquéd cotton, silks and moirés. The clothes have the understated elegance of the 1920’s cottages in the Muskokas. Lines are clean and efficient – using a restrained palette, Dixon adds a splash of excitement with turquoise caplets, or dazzling sequined white coats and suits that sparkle like stars in the firelight. Style is refined with precision details – square silver buttons, knife sharp pleats, slashes of silver lame set into organza. Dixon’s collection makes one nostalgic for the days when the Muskokas were a place of quiet, refined refuge. Next fall, be a classic Canadian beauty by wrapping yourself up in the intimate and easy elegance of our Prime Minister of Style – David Dixon.

Liza Zadwazka
Photographer Christina Pal