Captured Backstage: FLARE Fashion Portraits

Backstage at a fashion show is kinetic. Models, designers, makeup artists, hairstylists and volunteers careen around a tight space, under even tighter time constraints, all working to create that Moment: the lights go down, the music comes up, and the runway begins.

Photographer Luis Mora captures instants of rare stillness amid the chaos that is Toronto World MasterCard Fashion Week, exclusively for FLARE.