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Power breakfast for a power player: FGI Presented Fashion Visionary Award to Barbara Atkin
As a kick off to Toronto Fashion Week, FGI celebrated the internationally respected fashion trend forecaster, Barbara Atkin. As VP of Fashion Direction at Holt Renfrew, she created innovative retail concepts such as the Holt Renfrew World Design Lab - an incubator for...
Arriving for the David Dixon Fall 2016 show at Toronto Fashion Week
Marilyn Brooks attended the show of David Dixon last night in Toronto during Toronto Fashion Week. Accompanying Marilyn for this show was Sheila Schirmer, a long-time friend and fashion fan. Here they are pictured outside the fashion building in David Pecault Square...
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,...
New website launched
After much toiling and back room fussing, we're happy to finally announce the launch of the new Marilyn Brooks website! There are many new and exciting plans underway, and the launch of the site is the jump point for it all. Not only can you purchase original Marilyn...
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.
