Farley Chatto,
Trend Events co-Chair

Fashion Designer

Canadian designer Farley Chatto works locally, rocks globally with superbly detailed, eye-popping fashion. Whether creating costumes for Elton John’s AIDS fundraising concert in the UK or creating outfits for the opening of the new Libeskind/ Micheal Lee Chin Crystal of the ROM, 40-year-old Chatto leads the fashion-forward pack.

His corporate clients included MAC Cosmetics, Barbie, Porsche, Louis Vuitton, Cadbury, Sony Playstation and Veuve Clicquot. For the entertainment industry Chatto has provided costumes for the Toronto cast of the hit Broadway musical “The Producers”, “Hairspray”, “Canadian Idol”, CBS “Survivor” stars Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca, Natalie Imbruglia for L’Oreal and for controversial choreographer Tedd Robinson. One of the first designers of Fashion Cares, Toronto’s Annual AIDS benefit, Chatto has been intimately involved with the event for the past 18 years.

Chatto attended Toronto’s Ryerson University Fashion Program, where he established his own “Farley Chatto” line while still a student. Subsequently he was given the opportunity to live and work in New York, collaborating with numerous top American designers, and garnering a wonderful offer to apprentice with Giorgio Armani. Now based in Toronto, Chatto continues to create stunning fashion for his “Farley Chatto” line and also provides haute couture to an international clientele as extensive as it is exclusive. Chatto also produces and directs his own runway shows as well as multimedia extravaganzas for corporate clients. His work is regularly shown alongside North America and Europe’s top designers, and global demand for his work, from furniture companies to magazine publishers, makes Farley Chatto the one to watch in innovative, astonishing design.

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