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TFS Fashion Design Student Wins Scrub Couture Contest at Heart of Fashion

Published on May 16th, 2016. Last updated April 20th, 2023.

With a beautiful gown created using patches of surgical scrubs and hospital gowns, Toronto Film School Fashion Design student Yanis Allen has won the Fabricland Scrubs Design Challenge.

 

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Yanis and the model wearing her design.

 

The Fabricland Scrubs Design Challange was part of the Heart of Fashion Show fundraising event to benefit the North York General Hospital. This first of its kind design challenge invited design students from around Toronto, to design a statement Haute Couture piece using surgical scrubs and hospital gowns.

 

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Yanis’s dress.

 

The students were  judged by the very best in the Canadian fashion and media industry on creativity, originality and the overall look of their gowns.

 

Yanis Allen's Scrubs Dress sketch.
Yanis Allen’s Scrubs Dress sketch.

 

The show was curated by TNT Fashions and hosted by Jeanne Beker. More than 30 students submitted their creative vision of scrub couture and of the five finalists, three were from Toronto Film School: Yanis Allen, Lana Kuidira and Diseiye Thompson.

 

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Toronto Film School alumni/ students Yanis Allen Diseiye Thompson and Lana Kuidira.
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