Toronto Fashion Week: Grit Nouveau at Travis Taddeo SS'14

The young designer showed a focused, casual and athletics-inspired ready-to-wear collection at the tents last night. Taddeo showed both menswear and womenswear, as usual, and the collection pairs jersey with leather separates, sheer silk panels, and cotton pieces in a denim blue. The colour palette was edited and there was a cohesiveness to the way Taddeo mixed textures even in the all-black looks. There were, just as with many other shows so far this week, a number of baseball caps and drawstring pants in the collection. What we loved the most were the dresses with cutout details, quilted fabric, slouchy leather shorts that might very well be unisex, and the sexy ruched dresses towards the end of the show.