Jeremy Laing

Fashion ’02
Fashion designer

Toronto-based fashion designer Jeremy Laing learned to sew at age 13 by watching his mother, and he has been making clothes ever since. Known for his elaborations on simple principles of construction and form, Jeremy draws inspiration simultaneously from couture and tailoring traditions. His largely self-taught method, a combination of organic and geometric approaches to pattern-making and construction, was honed while studying at Ryerson, as well as on exchange at Westminster University in London, and through an apprenticeship with renowned designer Alexander McQueen. Following his apprenticeship, Mr. Laing worked as a freelancer, developing dramatic showpieces for five of Mr. McQueen’s collections, demonstrating his strengths in innovative pattern-making and garment construction, as well as his use of textile to create form. He believes that garments are a sum of their parts, all functioning in relation to one another and, ultimately, to the body. Having shown during New York fashion week since his eponymous label’s inception in 2005, Jeremy’s collection is available at select stores in North America, Russia and Asia.