Montreal Stylist Turned Designer Making Waves

He’s only 25 and has already garnered praised and comparisons to high profiled designers. Rad Hourani has made heads turn this past Spring/Summer 2008 during Paris Fashion Week with his unisex collection, and has been nominated as one of Style.com‘s Top Ten New Designers. He’s a self-taught Montreal stylist and has had his first collection bought by chain fashion giant Holt Renfrew (to which now I have to check out). He’s also been featured in the Montreal Gazette and most recently interviewed by The Business of Fashion about his vision and his upcoming show for New York Fashion Week Fall 2008. A look at his website and you can see that he is no ordinary stylist turned designer, as he is just as much into his little short artsy films and black and white photographs.

We’ll be keeping an eye on this man!

For my own little 2 cents though, it seems Montreal designers have been caught with some sort of obsession with black and white…why is that??