Location: Toronto, Canada
Year: 2018
Build: Academic

Team: Candace Owens

           Dwayne Dixon

           Victoria Beck

           Lily Liu

           Naveed Khan

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Created for the Toronto Trinidad Carnival Toronto in collaboration with SugaCayne Designs, TMU Fashion Zone (FZ), and TMU Design Fabrication Zone (DFZ). The series allowed students to take on the challenge of designing looks built on traditional craftsmanship and combined it with modern fabrication techniques. Mas camps (Masquerade camps) are spaces where costumes for the Carnival Celebration parade are made. Cultural techniques and tradition are brought into the designs and then “taken on the road” and celebrated as a rebellion against enslavement and is rooted in both African and Indigenous cultures. SugaCayne, founded by Candice and Dwayne Dixon, was looking to combine the beauty of traditional carnival costumes with modern day fabrication in the form of 3D Printing, laser cutting, and more.

The goal of the partnership between these groups was to fully develop three concepts based on the overall theme of this year’s Toronto Carnival, VENOM. Project Inkwell was inspired and the three concepts became Calligraphe, Squidlunk, and CMYK. Each design were to be made for one man and one woman, for a total of 6 costumes.