Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion

Montreal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers, and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and artists flock from all over to be a part of Montreal’s hip fashion community. Montréal Chic is the first book to document this scene and how it connects with the city’s design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud are intimately acquainted with Montreal and use their first-hand knowledge of the city’s fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, along the way uncovering many untold stories of Montreal’s fashion scene.