Designer Marilyn Brooks Reflects on 40 Years in Fashion, interview with Christiane Beya for Fashion Magazine

Nov 22, 2017 | News

Designer Marilyn Brooks Reflects on 40 Years in Fashion in her newly released memoir, Behind the Seams, and with Christiane Beya in an interview for Fashion Magazine.  To discuss Marilyn’s new book, Beya caught up with Brooks in San Francisco while she...

BEHIND THE SEAMS Book Signing Nov 15 at Yorkville Village.

Nov 14, 2017 | Events

Marilyn Brooks will be at Fashion Group International, Toronto’s exhibition of “60 Years of Fashion” to sign her new book “BEHIND THE SEAMS” on Wed. November 15 from 11:30 to 3:30 PM at Yorkville Village, 55 Avenue Road, Upper Level,...

Flashback to the 60s with the Unicorn

Apr 14, 2016 | Throwback Thursday

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...

SOLD OUT 1969 O’Keefe Centre fashion show

Mar 3, 2016 | Throwback Thursday

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...

Sheer design from the 1960s

Feb 4, 2016 | Throwback Thursday

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...