Fashion: A Fashionable Affair with Designer Ryan Joelson @ Spoke Club

 On March 22nd, I had the opportunity to attend "A Fashionable Affair" at the Spoke Club in Toronto. Located in the heart of Toronto's King West strip, it is "a thriving meeting place where individuals with interests in media, entertainment, and the arts can converge." The event featured a prix fixed menu and a fashion show showcasing the works of emerging designer, Ryan Joelson. It so happened that he is a recent graduate from Ryerson University's fashion program. (If you haven't figured it out, I am a Ryerson alumni!) 

 The menu was very simple but each dish was like a work of art. I didn't take many photos of the food as it ended up in my stomach pretty fast but as you can see to the right, the food was definitely too pretty to eat! Everything on the plate was edible, including the strands of sugar art that we had initially thought was some sort of copper wire used for decor purposes. The dessert, a "passion fruit sugar globe" features a coconut meringue encased in a sugar globe complimented by bits of fresh passion fruit and a poppy seed cake. The flavours were all very strong but just somehow worked together without over powering each other - if that even makes sense.

After dinner we proceeded to the Portland Room for the main event, the fashion show! This was my very first time shooting a fashion show and truth be told I'm kind of happy how the shots turned out - especially having taken them in heels that were killing me! (Note to self: Don't wear heels to a shoot!)

Below are some of my favourite shots of the night. I shot all of these in a RAW format with my Canon XSi, kit lens and the Canon 430 Speedlight flash. I did some post-processing in Lightroom 4 and tada! 

Ryan Joelson and two of his models

It was definitely a great learning experience for me as an amateur photographer to have attended such an event. It was an inspiration to see a fellow Ryerson alumni accomplish so much at such an early stage in their career!

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-Karennn

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