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The 2008 Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection Fashion Show

Cadbury, maker of chocolate bars, combined two things women love most: chocolate and fashion, at the presentation of its 2008 Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection, unveiled during the fourth annual Fashion Show.

Ten outstanding Canadian fashion designers were invited to seek creative inspiration from select countries around the world that share a passion for chocolate. The result, revealed on the runway at the Carlu in Toronto on November

5th, was a diverse array of highly delectable couture creations– each featuring 100 percent pure chocolate.

Award-winning designers, Eugenia Leavitt, Karyn Gingras, Ines and Veronica Di Santo, Andrew Majtenyi, Stephen Wong and Kirk, Pickersgill, Farley Chatto, Izzy Camilleri, Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell, Rory Lindo and Kelly Freeman attended as the creative collaborators in the show.

The delicious evening featured exclusive performances by Simone Denny and Measha Brueggergosman and- two critically acclaimed Canadian divas. Measha Brueggergosman has

garnered praise for her voluptuous voice, sovereign stage presence, and intuitive musicality. Canadian powerhouse vocalist Simone Denny is a dynamic, soulful diva who is internationally recognized for her distinctive interpretation of all genres of music, transcending all boundaries.

“Designers who have participated in previous collections continually try to surpass the work we have developed in previous years,” says fashion designer Farley Chatto, curator of the Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection since its inception. “Each year, new designers consistently come up with the most fantastic creations and innovative applications of Cadbury chocolate. This year, we were inspired by the theme of a universal love of Cadbury chocolate and we really challenged the chocolatiers to invent new chocolate techniques to bring our ideas to life.”

Chocolate artist Jenn Stone says the astonishing intricacy and variety in this year’s designs demanded ingenuity and improvisation.

“For the Greta Constantine outfit, we developed a new technique to create chocolate that is as translucent and delicate as blown glass. To get a believable fur effect for Philip Sparks’ Courier de Bois, we piped and spun the chocolate into a sort of candy floss texture.” In addition to the usual molding, dipping, sculpting, beading, airbrushing and appliquéing in chocolate, this year’s collection also necessitated the creation of pliable ropes and strings of chocolate, which Stone has christened “chocolate licorice” and “chocolate pasta,” respectively.

Inspired by the global passion for chocolate, ten of Canada’s top fashion designers applied their unique visions and their diverse design talents to the 2008 Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection Fashion Show.

Karyn Gingras presents a bikini-ed Aussie diva, clad in a soaring Sydney Opera House-inspired hat. The hat is solid Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, of course, encrusted in diamond-shaped chocolate tiles. The bikini is created in sexy chocolate leather. The diva is accessorized in elegant, elbow-length chocolate gloves and sandals tied with pretty ribbons of Dairy Milk chocolate.

Greta Constantine conjures dreams of golden temples and the gentle ting of cymbals with the graceful Thai dancer. The breastplate is moulded in Dairy Milk chocolate and decorated with solid chocolate studs and jewels. Six meters of beadwork—in pure dark chocolate—have gone into this sensuous siren’s abbreviated “skirt.”

Andrew Majtenyi’s dramatic collection has chocolate that’s been hand-piped and stencilled into elaborate Celtic patterns makes the Irish step dancer the sweetest ever seen. Her pert frock is accessorized with Cadbury, from the milk and dark chocolate tartan of her stockings to the delicate chocolate buttons on her wristlets.

Tapping into the nobility of Africa’s traditional tribes, Izzy Camilleri introduces the African Queen in an elaborate, chocolate-twig, midriff-baring bodice. The leather sarong, with ethnic patterned accents, is executed in milk chocolate. Her tresses, tinted with Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, are topped with a woven chocolate basket. The jewellery is dipped in Dairy Milk chocolate.

Montrealer Eugenia Leavitt’s toreador outwits El Toro in a sexy suit and cape airbrushed in Dairy Milk chocolate. A variety of chocolate balls, beads, buttons, and hand-piped chocolate create the intricate filigree of her pants. Her cap is dipped in luscious dark chocolate.

Rory Lindo and Kelly Freeman draw inspiration from Japan’s Harajuku girls—the young fashion-obsessed teens who haunt Omotesandō. Their frilly frock, airbrushed in delicious Dairy Milk chocolate, is piped with chocolate lace and punctuated with 30 chocolate bows shimmering with (edible) copper dust, as well as heart-and star-shaped chocolate “buttons”.

Philip Sparks’ Canadian lumberjack prowls in a traditional plaid jacket—very un-traditionally patterned with various tones of Dairy Milk chocolate—and a pair of chocolate denim pants. The buttons, even the axe—are chocolate, too. The authentic-looking fur of the collar, mitts and hat is chocolate spun like candyfloss.

The Ines Di Santos’ extraordinary bridal gown is made of hundreds of multi-toned, three-dimensional Dairy Milk leaves, tendrils and vines. The bride’s headpiece consists of leaves and twigs sculpted in Dairy Milk chocolate. The bouquet is a masterpiece of delicate chocolate filigree, beadwork and delectable chocolate flora.

Chatto’s outrageous music man sports a, chest baring “cage jean jacket” made of strips of chocolate boned leather and adorned with Swarovski Crystal snaps. The spines of his feathered headdress are coated in Dairy Milk chocolate.

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