Making Style Tracks across Canada: the VIA Rail challenge

From Press Release


(For immediate release- November 19, 2008) Across the nation, Canadian designers are invited to express their
style savvy for the VIA Rail redesign challenge!
The Fashion Design Council of Canada and VIA Rail Canada are pleased to announce an exciting Canadian
design challenge. The contest is for the design of a fresh and exciting restyling of the VIA Rail uniform for
station and on-train employees. The winning design will be announced and revealed in style to the media,
industry and the fashionable attendees at Fashion Week in Toronto, in March 2009
The call-out to designers to compete started November 17, 2008. What’s in it for the winner? For starters,
$10,000 in VIA Rail travel credits. Beyond that, there is the honour of redesigning the uniform for Canada’s
national passenger rail service, as well as significant national exposure and publicity starting with a public
appearance at the awards ceremony during Fashion Week. Production and manufacturing of the men’s and
women’s uniforms will be done through VIA Rail, a passionate supporter of fashion in Canada.
This innovative national opportunity is open to all Canadian designers who are ready to jump on board with
their design genius for this challenging opportunity.
For information and details for entry please contact the Fashion Design Council of Canada at info@fdcc.ca or
416-922-3322.

Interview - Dialogue Headwear

Glowing up the scene since 2005... Trevor Harris loves colour. If someone strolls by wearing a piece from his Dialogue line, chances are you'll notice. In a sea of gray scale and drab Ontario winter skies, Dialogue's fluorescents stand out. “Stand out” is almost an understatement. With colours like “highlighter yellow” draping the Dialogue skateboarders, snowboarders and fans, a more accurate description would be “glow-out”.

Wearing Dialogue, you'll stand out not only on the streets or slopes, but in the clubs. I saw for myself when I stared down at the dance floor at Circa on Friday night. One dancer was sporting the highlighter yellow shirt and he literally glowed.

Fashionmovementz' Jacquie Burton met with the determined young entrepreneur behind Dialogue after learning of the line at this fall's Clothing Show. Excited by his candy-coloured merch and impressed by his motivated yet humble spirit, Jacquie wanted to know more about the guy responsible for the line that seems an equivalent to the ubiquitous electro music of today.

JB: Why Dialogue?

TH: When I first started I was crocheting the hats myself. Everything was handmade, and it was literally just for my friends. I call it Dialogue because I had to have a conversation with each one of my customers to customize their hat for them. So everyone who's bought hats from me, it's been through personal communication The first two years I was doing this, everyone knew who I was because I would hand deliver hats to them so I'd always have to have a 'dialogue' with them.

JB: Who is involved with Dialogue?

TH: For the most part, I do everything myself. I print the t shirts myself, I do all the designs, I made the website myself. But there are a lot of people involved. I sponsor Skateboarders and snowboarders, which is actually a really good way to get your name out there. For the most part, I do everything myself, but my parents are also involved, they help me out a lot. They've basically allowed me to do what I need and I'm very lucky to have them.

JB: How long have you been in business?

TH: Officially, on September 15, 2005. But I started taking it really seriously in 2006.

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