Jay Manuel's Attitude by Sears spring/summer 2012 collection was actually good
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Peradventure an investor in a company that deals exclusively in hair gel and, for the subsequent season, a finger pointer and stamper of documents for Feeling by Sears—no one in attendance really believes he designs the collections, but we terminate for the spectacle, and it was one. Last season was a glistening runway show with a disco soundtrack, phony furs and pencilled-in eyebrows, and frankly, we didn’t like it, but this pep up was much less tacky, excluding—of course—the introductory rolling clouds of dry ice that rose to eye lay waste and made everyone choke. No boldface socialites showed up, but we did see
Bustle designers
Shawn Hewson and
Ruth Promislow and representation
Stacey McKenzie cheering on model friend
Yasmine Warsame, who slipped not once but twice while walking in the show. We couldn’t succour but chuckle just a little when she decided to lie on her back, hands in the air, until an audience colleague was
Source: Toronto Life (blog)