Anouk is an Haute Couture Textile Artist, Educator and Community Activist. She studied Fashion Techniques and Design at GBC, Classical Music at UofT and The Royal School of Music. She recently spent five years apprenticing in Paris under artists with Lesage/Chanel, Mme Gres, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, and the Chambre de Syndical, Paris Academy of Arts, Paris College of Arts Parsons.

 

Anouk  is an Art and Design professor at GBC and The Fashion Exchange. She is a mentor  for the TFI and The Ryerson Fashion Zone. She is a dedicated community activist, fostering the arts and artists through programming for at-risk and marginalized communities. She runs the non-profit LAB 365 1/2 that collaborates closely with prioritized and marginalized communities delivering customized and experiential art programming and mentorships.

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Anouk consults as a Creative Fashion Director and is responsible for  several acclaimed Women’s Luxury Brands in Canada. She ran an incubator that specialized in launching luxury labels and  start-ups building fashion brands and collections from concept to completion. Her designs have been showcased at Holt Renfrew, Bloomindales, Saks Fifth Avenue, TNT, Henri Bendels, and has been the finalist for New Labels TFI.

 

 Anouk has been awarded numerous art and community arts grants through the OAC, TAC and GBC. She was awarded the Jones Apparel Scholarship and the Fairchild’s Most Promising Designer award for excellence in design.  She was awarded the Runner Up Most Promising Designer for the Art of Fashion.  Her work has been showcased in several publications notably; Flare, Fashion, Elle Canada, Boomer, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, Now, and The Huffington Post UK. She has had art exhibitions at the Power Plant, Nuit Blanche, Hazelton Lanes, Holt Renfrew, Metro Hall and the  Schola Cantorum De Paris.  

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