Marilyn Brooks on the right with two very talented #photographers and friends, Beverley Rockett and Jim Allen at a function in the #1980s. Oh what fun!
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Fuchsia wool jersey and leopard printed suede accessories
A Marilyn Brooks wool jersey design from the 1980s with leopard printed suede accessories. It was everywhere, in every fashion magazine and fashion spreads in all the newspapers.
Flashback to the 60s with the Unicorn
The original logo for the Unicorn, the first boutique opened by Marilyn Brooks in the early 1960s. It was a fun destination enjoyed by many and shook up the conservative, staid scene in Toronto.
In the beginning…
Before there was fashion, there was watermelon. Pictured here is a very young Marilyn Brooks enjoying a warm summer day with refreshing treat.
Playing around on a shoot
The very talented photographer Gerard Gentil and model Ann-Marie Sten in a spontaneous shot taken in 1979 by Marilyn Brooks. It's always a lot of fun when the dynamics of those you're working with burst with such magic!
The late, great Wally Stefoff
Marilyn Brooks with the late, great Wally Stefoff, some time in the late 1970s. Wally was a dear friend, one who was always there and ready to contribute and help in any way. He was a very talented graphic artist who did a lot of Marilyn Brooks' ads and graphics work....
Banlon in the 1960s, the blank canvas for fun prints
Banlon was the canvas for Marilyn Brooks' original prints. It gave her the chance to express her love of painting with colour in her fashion designs. The models here are wearing Brooks' designs from the 1960s. It was a favourite of hers because it was washable,...
1980s cotton jersey accented by Fisher Price
Model Sam Turkis wearing cotton jersey from the Marilyn Brooks fashion collection of the 1980s, as seen in Toronto Life fashion magazine. Listed are the Marilyn Brooks Boutiques that were open, as well as a new one soon to open. That's a Fisher Price plastic...
SOLD OUT 1969 O’Keefe Centre fashion show
A Marilyn Brooks design on a model arriving at her 1969 SOLD OUT O'Keefe Centre fashion show in #Toronto (now known as Sony Centre for the Performing Arts). People came from everywhere! They had to turn away over 500! Tickets were $2 or $3 and after the show it...
Three girls on a rock
Designs by Marilyn Brooks shot in Martinique by the fabulous Gerard Gentil in the 1970s. What a fun time!
College Street studio apartment
Here Marilyn Brooks sits at her desk designing in 1972 at her studio apartment in #Toronto on College Street. She had sold her shares of The Unicorn, was starting over, and was doing it ALL at that time. Costumes for TV commercials, brides, a lot of one-of-a-kind...
Marilyn Brooks and The Amazing Kreskin!
Marilyn Brooks having some fun on television with the Amazing Kreskin in the 1970s.
Sheer design from the 1960s
One of the Marilyn Brooks designs from the 1960s in a sheer print from Italy. Brooks visited with Paco Rabbane in Paris at his studio, they spoke Spanish and he made these extra long, light earrings for her to go with her collections. When they received the...
Throwback Thursday with Pat McDonagh and Marilyn Brooks
Fellow fashion designer Pat McDonagh and Marilyn Brooks pose for a photo at an event in the 1970s.
Throwback to the 70s
It's Throwback Thursday and here is Marilyn Brooks hard at work, but taking a rest in the 1970s. Photographer Garth Scheuer
Far out for Throwback Thursday
1960s Marilyn Brooks monokinis