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Annie Thompson has been designing fashion and accessories under her eponymous label since 1981. Annie is the winner of many awards including, most recently, the VANGUARD Award for Sustainability in Canadian fashion.
Thompson is known for her edgy, uncommon designs which have been coveted by women of style around the globe. Annie has always produced her pieces in the Toronto area for ease of quality monitoring, relationship development and support of Ontario manufacturers, and to keep her carbon footprint very low.
Thompson has always had production facilities – pattern-making tables, cutting tables, sewing and pressing machines and copious selections of textiles in her boutiques to allow clients to regard the process of design. This has promoted more understanding of some of the intricacies of the process of creating fashion and has imbued each item with greater value.
Art in motion – the Canadian way.
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