ROCK GOD
Designer Todd Lynn talks the future of the internet, giving back and his Fall 2010 collection
On a sweltering May afternoon, we made the trek uptown to the Holt Renfrew Bloor Street locale for a brief chat with London-based, Canadian-bred designer Todd Lynn, to talk about his Fall 2010 collection, naturally. While the models who sported Lynn’s fur, leather and shaved lamb creations on the runway the night before at the Strut For A Cure event on Queen East seemed to manage without passing out, this girl didn’t feel worthy of putting on such luxe items over her summer ensemble.
The collection, from a designer known for his work with Mick Jagger, Bono and Marilyn Manson, is filled to the brim with proper fall looks, think strictly tailored leather jackets, some with sharp shouldered fur additions, thin wool sweaters and vests, and skin tight leather pants in a muted palette of grey, cream, and black. (Our fave easily being the grey leather number with blonde fur shoulders.) For Lynn, this collection was about “the hunter becoming the hunted, and how nature will actually take care of itself,” he said, as we chatted on a nearby couch on the second floor of the Canadian luxury retailer. “People’s concern for the environment is more a concern for themselves. The world will always be here, we won’t.” And the world is a changing beast indeed, he noted as we discussed the latest online technology and the advent of the iPad, a device that he thinks is going to revolutionize the magazine industry. Eventually.
And while this is his first time back to Canada in over 8 years, Lynn, who is currently visiting relatives in Ottawa, was happy to come back for a great charity event, the aforementioned Strut For A Cure, with Canadian super Coco Rocha. “The timing was right, and quite often when I get asked to do these things, the timing is not,” he laughs. “Charity is really important to me,” he says on a more serious note. “It’s important to help young people. Young people really look up to designers and artists. They love anything creative, fashion, the arts, etc. So, it was important for me to help out.”
*Check back tomorrow for our coverage of Strut For A Cure.
