Fashion - ? fee OF SUNDAY, MAY 30: Vixen and Doll, Vancouver maker of hip) hair acces sorties for Aritzia, Blue Ruby and Club Monaco among others. holds its annual sample sale, noon to @ pum, at Suite 304, 869 Beatty St. at Smithe in Vancouver. Buzz No. OOLE. Prices are wholesale and below, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2: Eatons, Park Roval, will hold a cosmetics fair, 6:30 ta 9 pm., with special vitts with purchase, 1 fashion show, door prizes and refreshments. Special guests are the Vancouver Fire Deparument calendar men. Tickets are $10, with $5 redeemable towards pur- chase. Part proceeds to sup- port the burn unit. SATURDAY, JUNE 5: Adventurer and Tilley Hat founder Alex Tilley will be in Vancouver, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a hat signing at his brother John’s Tilley Endurables store, 2401 Granville St. Also appear- ing at the store will be the Young Pharaoh, a nine- foot statue of an ancient Egyptian king, sculpted by John Tilley. SATURDAY, JUNE 5: The law firm Lindsay Kenney presents an after- noon of food, fun and fashion, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Westminster Club in’ New Westminster. Clothing is from Couture Fashions, a direct-sale cloth- ing company founded by West Van’s Renee Strong. Show and sale to benefit Monarch Place and Ishtar Transition Housing Society. Tickets: $20, from Angela Thiele in Vancouver, 687- 1323. TO JUNE 26: The Vancouver Guild of Fabric Arts presents In and Out the Garden, a display of fibre works that celebrate the garden, in the foyer gallery, Squamish Public Library. Hours are week- days noon to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. (open at 10 a.m. Thursdays) and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. FASHION FILE is a weekly Sunday column. If your bust- ness or charity is planning a fashion show, send in your information as early as possi- ble to the North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C., V7M 2H4. Fax to 985-2104 or e-mail . — Layne Christensen Sunday, May 30, 1999 — North Shore News — 15 north shore news __,@ FASHION Show celebrates West Coast design Photos Matinée Fashion Nows Sureau VANCOUVER designers previewed their fall/winter collections at the Matinée in Motion show May 19 at the Hyatt, including from the North Shore (clockwise from top left) Jill Davis Godfrey anu Sylvie Vincent for Frou- Frou, Christine Morton, Feizal Virani and Deborah Tissington for Neto Leather. a ERS! Watch for your Clean Sweep Sewing Club Majler delivered in homes this week! Layne Christensen News Reporter fayne@nsnews.com LEATHER and lace. That could have been the theme for last week's Maringe in Motion fashion show ar the Hyatt Regenev hotel. Nor the fashion anthem of a rock ‘n* roll queen. Rather, a sophisticated showing by 10 of Vancouver's best-known designers of Juxurious vet comfy-casual attire perfectly suited to our West Coast lifestyle. The show that attracted an audience of 1,100 was a pre- sentation of the Matinée Fashion Foundation, designed to preview the fall/winter col- lections of the foundation's 10 Western Canadian grant recip- ients for 1999, Since 1992, the foundation has awarded nearly $4 million in direct financial assistance to designers across the nation. This year, tor the first time ever, West Coast grant recipi- ents outnumbered those irom either the Ontario or Montreal regions, Vancouver's reputation as a producer of top-quality perfor- mance wear is solid. Sugoi, Arson, NFA and Heavenly Bodies are just a handful of the locally designed and manufac- tured labels that are recog- nized and sold around the world, yet were conspicuously absent from the Matinée show. The city can also lay claim to the distinction of lingerie design capital of Canada, and this was well represented on the catwalk. Presenting their collections May 19 were three of Vancouver's highest profile lin- gerie and loungewear design- ers — Patricia Fieldwalker, West Van’s Christine Morton and the design duo of Jill Davis-Godfrey and_— Sylvie Vincent, both North Van resi- dents and partners in Frou- Frou. Other North Shore designers who presented their lines include Feizal Virani and Deborah Tissington. Tissington, of course, is well known for her sumptuous leather creations for the label Nero, as well as the casual-wear line French Laundry, while Virani’s career clothing is sold throughout North America. Virani dabbled in leather as did Ron Leal but the most sen- suous skins were presented by the design duo of Ron Escher and Normand Brouillette whose Ron et Normand label for fall features a buttery soft lambskin floor-skimming skirt and flared-leg pant. Yumi Eto, who has hit her stride after a decade in design, provided the most stunningly unusual creations of the evening.