#16 (S2) TALKING FASHION & STYLE with Toronto Fashion Week’s Carolyn Quinn

What’s your personal style? Carolyn Quinn, executive director of Toronto Fashion Week provides us with insights on fashion trends, environmental sustainability in the fashion industry, and tips on purchasing clothing and pulling together a great outfit!   References & Links Carolyn Quinn, executive director Toronto Fashion Week * Toronto Fashion Week – https://torontofashionweek.to/ * Recommendations: * Retail Insider – https://www.retail-insider.com/ * The Daily Beast – https://www.thedailybeast.com/ * Fashion Talks Podcast – https://fashiontalks.ca/about-fashion-talks Designers * Smythe… – https://shopsmythe.ca/ * … designers who dressed Meghan Markle – https://whatmeghanwore.net/tag/meghan-markle-smythe-blue-coat/ * Rosaria Lamanna – http://www.lifetoolsforwomen.com/b/rosaria-lamanna.htm * Supreme – https://www.streetwearofficial.com/collections/supreme TalkAboutTalk * Weekly Email Blog – https://talkabouttalk.com/blog/#newsletter-signup * Andrea – [email protected]     Interview Transcript Dr. Andrea Wojnicki: Thank you so much for joining us, Carolyn. I really appreciate it. Carolyn Quinn: Happy to be here. I’m excited to talk about all things fashion. AW: So I wanted to start with a question that is a bit of a cliché. And hear your take on this. And the question is, what do you think about the saying, You are what you wear? CQ: I think it is such a true statement. I think that we all have to get dressed in the morning and I think we make a decision based on so many different factors. When it’s mid-February and it’s snowy and it’s cold. I find myself personally, I’m in all-black. And you see everyone sort of in this city and in the world dressed dark and I think it really impacts our feelings and now that it’s starting to get warm out you know, I’m starting to pull out all the bright colors and whites and you can see, you can feel that spring is in the air. We also get dressed in a way, in the mornings, almost like an armor. I think that if there’s something that is happening in our life, or you know, affecting our mood. It’s impacted by what we wear very much. And I think that what’s happening internationally in the world, whether it be economic, wars, whatever. Designers design collections based on what is what is happening globally. And it impacts what we what we wear. And again, it’s like an armor. You know, if there’s something negative happening, or positive, or weather, or economics, we outwardly project ourselves based on what we wear in the mornings. Yeah, yeah, very much so. AW: So armor is an interesting word, right? Because I feel like armor is something you put on to shield yourself from the outside. But you’re saying that may be true. It’s also true that you’re communicating from the inside out. CQ: It’s so much a communication piece, you know. There are designers now that are — and I’m sure everybody’s seen it — on either social or in the city.