Yorkdale announces even more new stores to open in 2013 including Mulberry, Zara Home, David Yurman and All Saints

As if Yorkdale Shopping Centre couldn’t get any better, the luxury mega mall has just announced yet another list of first-to-Canada brands opening throughout 2013. After completing a $220 million dollar renovation in November, which saw the Canadian launch of retailers like Kate Spade New York, Loft and Ted Baker, Yorkdale is announcing that luxury retailers David Yurman, Mulberry, All Saints,Zara Home, John Varvatos, and White House | Black Market will join them this year. Ferragamo and Massimo Dutti, who both entered Canada in 2012, will also be opening at Yorkdale Shopping Centre.

In addition to all that international excitement, Brandy Melville, Stuart Weitzman, Lego and Ontario’s own, Honey also plan Yorkdale openings in 2013, as well as current expansions and renovations in the works for current Yorkdale anchors,Holt Renfrew, Harry Rosen and the Bay.

Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations before, and the textile industry certainly led many trends, the history of fashion design is normally taken to date from 1858, when the English-born Charles Frederick Worth opened the first true haute couture house in Paris. The Haute house was the name established by government for the fashion houses that met the standards of industry. They have to adhere to standards such as: keeping at least 20 employees engaged in making the clothes, showing two collections per year at fashion shows, and presenting a certain number of patterns to costumers.Since then the professional designer has become a progressively more dominant figure, despite the origins of many fashions in street fashion. For women the flapper styles of the 1920s marked the most major alteration in styles for several centuries, with a drastic shortening of skirt lengths and much looser-fitting clothes; with occasional revivals of long skirts, variations of the shorter length have remained dominant ever since. Flappers also wore cloches, which were snug fitting and covered the forehead. Her shoes had a heel and some sort of buckle. The most important part was the jewelry, such as: earrings and necklaces that had diamonds or gems. The flapper gave a particular image as being seductive due to her short length dress, which was form fitting, and the large amounts of rich jewelery around her neck.

The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressed dolls from France as patterns since the 16th century, and Abraham Bosse had produced engravings of fashion from the 1620s. By 1800, all Western Europeans were dressing alike (or thought they were): local variation became first a sign of provincial culture, and then a badge of the conservative peasant.