Meet Canada’s Version of Meredith Melling Burke!

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Chic Report caught up with Liz Cabral, fashion director of Canada’s Flare Magazine, at L’Oreal Fashion Week in Toronto.
How long have you worked at Flare?
I’ve been at Flare for four years, before that I was at another Canadian magazine, Chatelaine. I’ve been in the Canadian fashion industry for almost ten years now.
What have your highlights been thus far?
Andy The-Ahn put on a really great show. Joeffer Caoc was great. He’s an industry veteran and it’s nice to see him maturing. It’s really great also to see the girls who are international superstars like Taryn David and Lisa Cant come back onto Toronto catwalks.
What distinguishes Canadian fashion from fashion in New York, Paris, and Milan?
I think Canadian design is really unique. It’s an incubator for really great talent like Todd Lynn, Erdem, and Jeremy Laing, who have all come and grown from here.
Are there rivalries between Canada’s fashion magazines? Any Vogue/Elle like battles?
No, as you probably have witnessed, Canadians are very friendly. That’s sort of the rap we get all over the world. We’re such a small community that it’s not uncommon for us all to be sitting at the same dinner table.
Editor’s note: Flare and Elle Canada were seated on opposite sides of the runway.