ERAN ELFASSY AND ELISA DAHAN are the designers behind Montreal-based brand Mackage, which presented during TFW for many years, and last season closed the week with an off-site presentation: “One of the things we felt about TFW was that they stopped screening the brands that were showing. The best thing that could arise from developing a new fashion week would be to curate real talent and have it be less about commercialism. It became more of a business, which is unfortunate, because the whole goal of fashion week to us is to show how amazing our talent is. It should be something that’s motivating, refreshing and innovative. Also, showing off-site allowed us to do what we wanted – it was very hard to be creative in the official TFW environment because of all the rules and regulations.”GEORGE PIMENTEL