One of fall’s biggest accessories trends isn’t python bags or neon sunglasses, but pearl jewellery as your granny’s favourites get a style revamp, with a little help from Sex and the City.

Vancouver designers and storeowners are showing a new face of South Asian fashion, which fuses historical traditions of vibrant colours and luxurious fabrics with an updated, global approach to marketing and style.

Vancouver designers and storeowners are showing a new face of South Asian fashion, which fuses historical traditions of vibrant colours and luxurious fabrics with an updated, global approach to marketing and style.

The annual Canadian-made fashion sale offers a sneak peek at what boutiques will be carrying this season and is expected to attract more than 3,000 shoppers this weekend.

One of fall’s biggest accessories trends isn’t python bags or neon sunglasses, but pearl jewellery as your granny’s favourites get a style revamp, with a little help from Sex and the City.

This year, industry bibles Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar suggest a resurgence of a number of trends, including plaids, chunky wool sweaters, and mismatched fabrics and textures.

Although the English fashion authority and international chain has yet to open a store in North America, a surprisingly large selection of the cheap and chic men’s line can be found at the Gastown boutique.

In an increasingly digitized world, Vancouver schools and the fashion industry are keeping up, with fashion-arts programs now requiring students to train in patternmaking software.

Glencora Twigg, Christine Hotton, and Jessica Vaira have brought their personal style and skill set to a new capsule collection of sustainable and fashion-forward tops for the fall 2008 season.

Monique Mousseau works with enamel, using a venerable technique that appears in Chinese art, to create distinctive pendants, pins, rings, and earrings, mainly in a West Coast blue.

The Vancouver designer drew her inspiration for her latest collection, which has a more Miami feel with standouts including a lime chiffon dress and a white cotton bomber jacket, from Edie Sedgwick.

Local designer Melanie Hull drew her initial inspiration for her signature line of colourful feather hair combs and headbands from her Ukrainian grandmother.

A new local label's line is ideal for the Vancouver lifestyle: a three-quarter-sleeve, black-and-white-striped tunic dress for a trip to the beach, a chunky bangle for a patio barbecue, and a pair of comfortable heels for a night of dancing.

The culmination of 10 months spent toiling over patternmaking, illustration, construction, and design, the students’ work featured everything from feathered skirts and sequined dresses to floor-length gowns and even a set of period costumes.

This summer, Vancouver designer Katie Quinn is determined to make Downtown Betty a household name with her colourful signature hand–silk-screened skimboard bags.

A Vancouver-based fashion designer has turned the white, plasticky weather-barrier material normally found at construction sites into her medium of choice for everything from men's costumes to wedding dresses.

Designer Christie Clayton has created an easy-to-wear, beach-friendly collection that was inspired by nu-rave music, with funky silkscreens and zipper pulls featuring the Holy Ghost.

Kimberley Dawn Cathers’s vintage-fabric designs on label kdon are cool on-line sellers—and never coy.

There's a secret society of sorts in the vintage-clothing industry. It is one in which clothing is sold by the pound, not in cozy, decorated boutiques but in huge warehouses where tens of thousands of dollars' worth of vintage duds passes hands in any given month. Of course, ask anyone lucky enough to have caught a glimpse inside and the answer is "I can't disclose that kind of information."

Last spring, while top models strutted down runways in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, Vancouver's catwalks sat empty–not because our city isn't a fashion destination, but because for the first time in four seasons, BC Fashion Week failed to materialize.

Good-for-you arm candy from Vancouver's purse visionaries.

Smash hit Portobello West is a must-do steppingstone for aspiring designers like Oriana Camporese, who snagged her Farmer’s Daughter feathered headband at the market, which turns one this Sunday (August 26). Rebecca Blissett photos.

Given her birth name, it seemed only natural that Sèa Adams would wind up with a career related to the ocean. That career saw her travelling the world for 17 years as a lingerie and swimwear model. More recently, Adams (who's changed her first name to Cea) has become a designer who counts Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie among her fans. The former Vancouverite says the progression felt natural.

Given her birth name, it seemed only natural that Sèa Adams would wind up with a career related to the ocean. That career saw her travelling the world for 17 years as a lingerie and swimwear model. More recently, Adams (who's changed her first name to Cea) has become a designer who counts Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie among her fans. The former Vancouverite says the progression felt natural.