FARLEY CHATTO
Canadian designer Farley Chatto works locally, but rocks globally with superbly detailed, eye-popping fashion. Whether creating costumes for Elton John’s AIDS fundraising concert in the UK, or dressing dancers in Edouard Lock’s La La Human Steps, 39-year-old Chatto leads the fashion-forward pack.
His corporate clients included MAC Cosmetics, Barbie, Virgin, Porsche, Cadbury and Veuve Clicquot, and his works have been featured extensively in the entertainment industry. Chatto has provided costumes for the Toronto cast of the hit Broadway musical “The Producers”, “Canadian Idol”, CBS “Survivor” stars Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca, “Sex and the City” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” star Chris Noth, featured in Vanity Fair Ads for “Viva Glam” dressing spokeswoman and rapper Eve, “Corner Gas” star Tara Spencer-Narin as well as controversial choreographer Tedd Robinson. One of the first designers to participate in Fashion Cares, Toronto’s Annual AIDS benefit, Chatto has been intimately involved with the event for the past 20 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 makes Farley Chatto the one to watch in innovative, astonishing design.
