Fashion History Museum

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The Canadian fashion industry was at its creative peak in the 1980s, with a bevy of well-known Canadian designers, many still in business. In 1985, the Festival of Canadian Fashion was created to celebrate the best of Canadian fashion through catwalk shows, exhibits and designer presentations. The show grew steadily until 1989, when it was sold to the City of Toronto, on the eve on an economic meltdown. In 1990, the Festival closed. The Fashion History Museum has acquired 4,400 images taken by the Festival's official photographer and is committed to digitizing the collection, preserving it for research and future generations of Canadians, and presenting a celebratory exhibition in 2021.