First Time Experience at Vancouver Fashion Week for Designer SOOJINU and Illustrator LEAH MICHAUD, from John Cassablanca Institute

Written by Colleen Tsoukalas

I want to thank Sarah Murray, Community Relations Manager for Vancouver Fashion Week and Melanie Kroeker McIntosh, Instructor at John Cassablanca Institute, for their support to share Korean Designer, Soojin's first runway experience and Leah Michaud's first time illustrating a runway show. I wrote about my first meeting with them here. Thanks to both for sharing their talents! Having had countless wonderful opportunities, over the years, to volunteer, write, model and meet so many creative Designers, Artists, Photographers, Musicians, Media, Models - an entire community, both local and international, I want to also thank Jamal Abdourahman, Founder, for keeping VFW the dynamic seven day event that it is and has been since 2001. Not only does it happen twice a year, but it travels (Fashion Capsule) to New York and Japan. Extremely important, then that the Fashion Programs students see it as part of their curriculae and take advantage of the endless opportunities it provides. Thanks, finally to Faye Cottrill, who sent me all the links to VFW to keep me up on the latest, as I was out of town, and would have missed what was yet another fabulous week! Here I am, last season, with those lit up letters! And where would we be without professional photos from the runway by Filippo Fior.