Vancouver Fashion Week

Seyoung Shin is a social influencing fashion designer who design for the people who live in this busy and fast developing modern society to give some restful moment from her collection that people can engage, actually touch and feel. Therefore, she as a fashion designer creates a collection for balancing work and life by her comforting designs, therefore people can live with better life quality. Brand “NON” comes from Korean word ”ᄉᄋᄉ” which represents initial words of the designer name “Seyoung Shin” in Korean. Her illustration’s unique style lets people recognize her work visually well at glance and elevate her design persuasive.

Over the past 10 years, Miriam has built and self-financed both a wholesale showroom and a direct-to-consumer fashion label with international reach. Her brand, Brunette the Label, is sold in over 700 stores in Canada and the US and is quickly growing in Australia and Europe as well. In true babes supporting babes fashion, Brunette the Label has collaborated with a variety of brands including Garnier, The Coveteur & Goop. When not working, you can find Miriam at the stables training as a competitive equestrian with her horses Josephine, Callaghan and Pierre, or heading to her next travel destination where she draws inspiration for her life and her brand.

Diabla is born out of the desire to inspire contemporary fashion by the various indigenous and folkloric traditions in Bolivia. Beyond being an artisanal entrepreneurship, we are an innovative cultural movement with the aim of elaborating unique and authentically inspired designs from autochthonous communities acrosss the country and focused primarily on the Bolivian woman. We share the a vision with our ancestors: that of creating garments that are an extension to people’s unique identities. We create handmade garments employing ancestral techniques with a contemporary perspective and style, thus aiming to attract and adapt to the needs and desires of modern and globalized women.

In 2012 she started Carla Quiroga with the aim of producing women’s and men’s apparel made 100% in Bolivia and supporting the Bolivian labor market. CQ stands for Carla Quiroga, a Bolivian native who always dreamed about using fashion to communicate the beauty and diversity of her hometown. As the creative director and designer of CQ, Carla draws inspiration from the colors of nature, her love for travel, national folklore and traditions. You can find her dancing lively at the Carnaval de Oruro (car-nah-val de o-roo-ro) or taking a road trip to Salar de Uyuni (sa-lar de ooh-yoo-nee).