About this event
LearningBaillie Court, Art Gallery of Ontario.
Join us for this unique panel discussion where we’ll hear from three fashion designers: Rachel Scott, Christopher John Rogers, and Kirk Pickersgill. Moderated by pioneering fashion editor, style icon, and publisher Suzanne Boyd, the panel will reflect on their presence in the Sunday Best exhibition while touching on themes of innovations in style and design within each of their practices.
Jamaican-born Rachel Scott studied fashion design at the Istituto Marangoni in Milan working at Costume National in Italy and Rachel Comey in New York. She launched Diotima in 2021 and has since won several awards, including the CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year in 2023 and American Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2024. In 2025, she became Creative Director Proenza Schouler while continuing to lead Diotima.
Christopher John Rogers is the designer behind his namesake New York label, founded in 2016. His work explores color, proportion, material, and the craft of clothes-making, bringing disparate references from fine art, design, popular culture, and everyday life into unexpected conversation. His designs have been worn by Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ayo Edebiri, Michelle Obama, and Kamala Harris. Beyond fashion, Rogers has increasingly extended the CJR point of view into interiors, objects, and other areas of design. He won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2019, CFDA American Emerging Designer of the Year in 2020, and CFDA American Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2021.