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Tamara Rubilar: passion for embroidery
Tamara Rubilar is a textile designer specializing in art embroidery. She creates made-to-measure pieces for fashion and has worked with Cirque du Soleil, Disney and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She has just launched her first collection of flowers in silk, cotton or linen organza, roses, camellias and colorful peonies that enhance an outfit.
“Embroidery is a real passion,” explains Tamara Rubilar in an interview. I like to use noble materials, silk threads, gold threads, pearls, sequins. Flowers are a beautiful accessory, and a real embellishment for clothes. The Montrealer also collaborates with fashion designers like Antonio Ortega, for whom she created embroideries for one of her collections.
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There are several flowers among the creations of Tamara Rubilar.
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Tamara Rubilar specializes in art embroidery. She wears one of her creations, a flower, on her jacket.
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The designer likes to work with threads of gold, silk, cotton and different fabrics and textures.
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Her inspiration comes mainly from beautiful fabrics. “I am inspired by materials. I like fabrics that have a story. I went to visit a traditional weaving workshop in Venice that has been around since 1850 and brought back samples of velvet that were used to make pieces for European royalty. So there is a whole story behind this velvet. »
European know-how
“The heritage and know-how of embroidery come from Europe. Haute couture houses have their embroidery workshops and their teams of embroiderers,” she explains, pointing out that designers here also want to have high-end embroidery. “The difficulty is that there is no school here. »
A graduate of the Center for Contemporary Textiles in Montreal in 2014, Tamara trained in embroidery in Paris at the prestigious Lesage school, then at the Royal School of Needlework in London. It is through internships with European embroiderers that she learned all her know-how.
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Embroidery is a very meticulous and creative work.
In 2019, she opened her workshop, Studio Textile Montréal, a place of creation and training in art embroidery where you can take courses. “I want to pass on the techniques so that they can continue to exist and bring this art to life,” says Tamara Rubilar, who hopes that classes can resume in March.
She observes a great interest around the arts of the thread and the needle, whether it is knitting or embroidery. “From a fashion point of view, you can embroider on clothes, dresses, or even accessories like hats, it always gives a very nice effect. »
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The shop offers swimwear and a clothing collection lounge.
Hermust The Label in Pointe-Saint-Charles
Hermust The Label is now well established, with its new boutique located on Center Street, in the Pointe-Saint-Charles district. The Montreal brand founded by Jessica Metni in 2017 notably offers swimwear, clothing vintage, jewelry, Ruby Brown candles and Atelier Major body care products. “My brand has been online for five years, but I really wanted to open a store, to be able to meet customers, and I found the dream location in Pointe-Saint-Charles,” confides in an interview. Telephone Jessica Metni. She is the one who designs the swimwear and clothing collections lounge very clean style. “I like classic pieces, solid colors, a minimalist style that I design for all women”, says the one who also has a passion for second-hand clothes. “I was a model, I lived in London. I traveled a lot and whenever I was in Paris, New York, Rome or Milan, I loved finding finds in thrift stores. I like to revive parts vintagee. My shop looks like me, it’s like entering my wardrobe! »
2471 Center Street, Montreal
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The Gorski store on Greene Avenue, Westmount
A first store for Gorski
Luxury outerwear brand Gorski has just opened its first boutique on Greene Avenue in Westmount. Founded in Montreal in 1984 by Leonard Gorski and his wife, Karin, the brand designs coats, après-ski jackets, as well as accessories such as wool and cashmere hats, gloves and scarves, for men and women. . Gorski is very successful in the United States since the brand is distributed in department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, as well as in specialized boutiques. The entire Gorski collection can now be found in this new flagship store.
1355 Greene Avenue, Westmount
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Marie-Anne Miljours is expecting two babies for the spring.
The end for the Miljours store
The Miljours store will close on the 1er next March. Founded by Marie-Anne Miljours, creator of a range of eco-responsible leather goods (Miljours Studio), the shop offered, in addition to leather bags, products from local decoration brands, jewelry and other accessories. “The last two years have not been easy. Opening a business and dealing with a pandemic is exhausting, especially without government assistance,” the designer wrote on her Instagram page. This decision was motivated by the fact that she is pregnant with twins, who will be born in the spring. Marie-Anne Miljours takes a break to see what the future holds for her Miljours Studio brand. A big closing sale is held until 1er March with discounts of up to 50% on all products in store.
426 Beaubien Street East, Montreal