Fashion and accessories from Dahlia Drive on Shaw TV's entertainment talk show Urban Rush with hosts Fiona Forbes & Michael Eckford.
Wendy Van Riesen, the designer behind Dahlia Drive, has a fascination with the subversive, the secretive and the nostalgic. Van Riesen takes old slips and regenerates them using silkscreening, hand-painting and heat-setting techniques. She turns the slips into dresses to be worn on top of other slips. Her muse is Leonardo
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Last season the style mavens introduced us to rock n’ roll acid tones for every occasion in fuchsia, acid yellows, greens, and electric blue. The opportunity to jump on this luminous bandwagon now lies in the fun and funky spring collection from Dahlia Drive. Known and sourced for her
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One North Vancouver designer says she’s noticing a growing environmental interest among consumers. Wendy Van Riesen line, Dahlia Drive, recycles previously worn slips and men’s shirt. She paints designs onto paper and then presses them onto the clothing. The process not only uses a small amount of water — she
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She was always the artsy type, balancing her formal training as an actress and 20 years work onstage and in film, with courses in pottery, quilt making, weaving and experimentation with natural dyes.
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Imagine Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields in Babyface clad in heat soaked, antique shaded, sheer and slinky slips. Add a dose of Avril Lavigne’s punk princess pink with skull and cross bone accessories and you have an idea of the beauty, sexiness, and rock ‘n roll sensibility of Dahlia Drive.
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What to do with all those unmentionables that never see the light of day? Well turn them into art, of course! That’s the general concept behind Wendy van Riesen’s Vancouver-based clothing line, Dahlia Drive. Named after the flower of the same name, as well as the street she grew up on, Dahlia Drive transforms forgotten vintage slips into one-of-a-kind pieces. Found items often retain their original shape and cut, but Wendy adds unique dyes and prints to transform these seemingly basic items into eye-catching fashion statements.
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