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Fashion
Poised, sophisticated and radiating enthusiasm for all things fashion, it’s immediately apparent how Fashion Marketing graduate-turned-instructor Lyndi Barrett became one of Vancouver’s most celebrated Public Relations mavens before she became one of Vancouver’s most influential bloggers.
It’s fitting that we find ourselves at the threshold of a Woodwards building street level storefront. Built in 1903, Vancouver’s historic shopping behemoth sat vacant for a period of nearly a decade before the renaissance of Gastown in 2003.
Public Relations maven Talya Lee is where effortless street style and old-school hustle come together. Following her love of the arts and honouring her wanderlust roots, she circled the globe after graduating from Blanche Macdonald’s Global Fashion Marketing Program, dipping her toes in the most exotic of locales.
We are on opposite ends of our daylight. As the sun makes its morning spill into the streets of Vancouver, in Hong Kong it is already past one a.m. the next day.
Between running her self-started digital marketing and events agency, Capital G Creatives, styling as part of her core creative team, and working on visual art while developing related side projects, I marvel aloud at the enormity of her typical workday.
Fragmented fairy tales peppered with nostalgia. Susie Bubble meets Dr Seuss. Throw in a little teenage rebellion for good measure, and you have Fashion sensation Alex Yu.
As the Visual Manager at the highly-anticipated Vancouver opening of Swedish modern-minimalist brand COS, Blanche Macdonald Global Fashion Marketing graduate and Saskatoon-native, Janelle Knihnitski has successfully circumnavigated the Vancouver fashion scene, testing fate and ambitiously pursuing her goals to land herself in this coveted role.
Under Lisa’s guidance students learn to explore, conceptualize, and present design ideas before embarking on the arduous task of creating a collection from scratch.
Fashion Design
A lustrous career spanning over two decades, Beth was a key member of design companies like: John Fleuvog, Aritzia, Kit + Ace and Wings & Horns before launching her own brand in 2011.
Alex Yu is a graduate of the Blanche Macdonald Centre Fashion Design Program and the London College of Fashion. Launching his contemporary ready to wear line ALEX S. YU in 2014 after being named “Emerging Designer of the Year” by Niche Magazine, his quirky and modern clothes quickly cultivated a cult-like following, with stockists in New York, London, Vancouver, Taipei and Miami.
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