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by Joyce Gunhouse & Judy Cornish Spring ’99 |
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“For their spring 1999 collection…, Judy Cornish and Joyce Gunhouse went to the place everyone goes to escape from bills and store closings and the stress of the fashion business. “The day we decided to do a show,” says Cornish, “we started having nightmares and losing sleep, so the bed seemed an appropriate theme.”
The designers behind Comrags, the popular 15-year-old Toronto Queen Street-born-and-bred label — the Tragically Hip of the Canadian fashion scene — printed their invitations on mini pillowcases and set up a row of made-up single cots on the lawn outside the St. Matthias church on Bellwoods Avenue near Queen Street West in Toronto where they held their show.” Excerpt from The National Post, 1998 |
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“With a giant white pillowcase as a backdrop, they sent out “21st-century farm girls,” as one Flare fashion editor put it, in striped mattress ticking pants, wrinkly-sheet dresses and bed jacket-type handknit cardigans in oatmeal, ballet pink and antique blue.” Excerpt from The National Post, 1998. |
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“Feathers go ‘down’ town on this net top paired with a washed-denim-look, bias-cut, linen skirt. “We wanted to capture the feeling that comes when you get up and realize that you don’t have to go anywhere,” explains Cornish. “We wanted to offer that feeling in clothes that were accessible all day.” Pants were fluid. Slip dresses were light and layered. Feminine details were added with soft floral prints, gentle tucks and gathers and rows of discreet ruffles at the cuffs on shirts and dress hems.” Excerpt from The Toronto Sun, 1998 |
