Andy The-Anh at Montreal Fashion Week 2005

Subtle elegance, eminently feminine: Andy The-Anh's collection was described as perfectly suited for the modern woman — absolutely wearable, always recognizable, 'the discreet charm of Andy The-Anh.' The record also notes a new partnership, Athlia, and the designer's lines Andy and A Degree by Andy The-Anh, spanning ready-to-wear and living wear for work, working out, going out or just relaxing.

Andy The-Anh presented at Montreal Fashion Week 2005, on the designer roster kept in this section of the directory. The collection notes below are the record of that presentation, and the runway photographs by Jimmy Hamelin for Montreal Fashion Week accompany them.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from this show.

Andy The-Anh in the Montreal Record

Discretion was the label's signature at a fashion week full of louder statements: wearable clothes, precisely judged, that a modern woman could build a working wardrobe on. Andy The-Anh returned for the March 2006 season, where the follow-up page in this record can be found.

The full Montreal rosters frame this page: the 2005 designer list names seventeen designers, and the March 2006 list continues the record with returning and new names. Designers who showed in both seasons can be followed across the two lists, and each designer's own website — where the record gives one — is carried in the references below.

Wearability is easy to claim and hard to deliver; the note's emphasis — 'absolutely wearable, always recognizable' — describes clothes designed to be lived in at work, at the gym and in the evening, under one label's hand. The Athlia partnership and the A Degree line show a designer building a wardrobe system rather than chasing a single runway moment, which is precisely the kind of label a regional fashion week is built to launch.

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