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MEL ELEGANCE SHINES WITH SOPHISTICATED RESORT WEAR AT VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK
MEL ELEGANCE Mel Elegance designed by Melissa Yin presented a collection of sophisticated resort-wear at Vancouver Fashion Week. While many of you know of resort wear, it is it's sophistication and luxury that Melissa Yin captures in this collection. In fact, Resort wear is a clothing style, as well as a year-round fashion "season". Sometimes known...Continue reading→
GRANDI’S AWESOME ESSENTIAL COLOURS, HELP POWER VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK
GRANDI'S ESSENTIAL COLOURS Darling's, I can certainly say, I would not be the person I am today without crayola crayons. I was an isolated little gay boy who escaped through drawing princess dresses, and movies. Moreover, it was my extra large box of crayola crayons that helped me escape into a safe world of dresses...Continue reading→
SARAH RUNNALLS SHOWS CREATIVE CHIC AT VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK
SARAH RUNNALLS When I set out to cover Vancouver Fashion Week, I was committed to giving coverage to young women designers. Of course I have written posts on some great male designers also. However, I am in part bringing attention to a new women's movement. We are in a time when women are now creating...Continue reading→
HOW YUNG_ALEXANDER FOCUSES ON GENDER, AND FORM AT VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK.
yung_alexander NONBINARY FASHION Certainly we all know many male fashion designers are gay. However, the LGBTQ community has always been under-represented on the runways. Significantly, in the last couple of years we have started to see non binary fashion and transgender models turning up on the catwalks. So what is nonbinary ? Nonbinary gender is an...Continue reading→
BLARA ORGANIC HOUSE SUSTAINABLE CLOTHING AT VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK.
BLARA ORGANIC HOUSE Since attending Vancouver Fashion Week, I have been researching, interviewing, and finally writing posts about the designers and shows. Since most of the designers have young labels there is not always a lot of brand information available. However one label at fashion week shows us how to create a brand. Blara Organic...Continue reading→
GLAZE KOHL BRINGS VINTAGE INSPIRATION TO VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK
GLAZE KOHL INSPIRED BY VINTAGE Darling's it's a part of my DNA to love vintage. Since, I was a young child I loved to watch old Hollywood movies. In fact, during my teenage years I would set an alarm to wake me up in the middle of the night to see a classic Hollywood film....Continue reading→
EVAN CLAYTON FIRED UP LIKE HELL AT VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK
EVAN CLAYTON PRESENTS LIKEHELL I spent the first 5 minutes writing this post trying replicate that specific red for the headline (and I probably chose wrong) that Evan Clayton sent down the runway at Vancouver Fashion Week. Most importantly, Red is one of those colors that has such intense emotions attached to it. For one...Continue reading→
AY LELUM -The Good house of Design at Vancouver Fashion Week
AY LEUM GOOD HOUSE OF DESIGN " Ay Lelum-the Good House of Design" is a brand created by sisters Aunalee Boyd-Good and Sophia Seward-Good. They also were one of my most anticipated runways. In fact, from what I saw at Vancouver Fashion Week maybe the family name should be great. Certainly a theme seems to be...Continue reading→
About Me
Launched in 2015 "Dress the Part" jandrewspeaks.com is for all you fashion students, fashionista's and fashion lovers. If you love fashion and style you'll be right at home here.
"Who Am I"
Firstly and most importantly I am a lover of Fashion. As a confirmed mommy's boy I learned sewing from my home seamstress mother. From a very young age I loved to design create and explore the world of fashion and costume . I have a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, in Costume Design and Art History. After working as a theatrical costume designer , teacher and artist , I have recently dedicated myself to writing this blog .
I live in Vancouver , Canada with my partner Angelo. A great life begins with a purpose , my first priority is my partner and family and my second is meaningful work. In fact Dress The Part started with an idea to spread my love of fashion and sharing my expertise and knowledge. Hence this is my meaningful work.