Celebrating Canadian design and local fashion.

Shop New Fall Fashions from Independent Canadian Designers You will get to see and purchase some NEW Fall/Winter 2009-2010 Granted items!

Check out ...new designs from fresh and established Canadian designers, before they hit the hottest boutiques ...in town. Spend on Trend is a fashion event showcasing Canadian independent designers of clothing, accessories and jewellery. The first 25 people through the door each day will enjoy a fabulous goodie bag filled with awesome stuff such as a copy of FASHION Magazine, Catalyst Reaction Keychain and more! Don't miss out! Friday night will feature a fashion installation show and DJ!

Hope to see you all there!

August 21st 5pm-9pm
August 22nd 10am to 7pm
August 23rd 11am to 6pm

Location:

The Scotia Bank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC
(@ Davie and Granville Street)

Click here for more information on Spend On Trend

Austen Gilliland from Canadian Living.com surprised us with a spur of the moment phone interview. Only minutes after talking to her, she neatly and perfectly summed us (Granted) up in her blog post.

"Monocle" magazine, which offers a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design, is featuring Granted as one of the few companies remaining in the handmade textile businesses in Canada.

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The folks at Motherbrand have put on an exhibit called the Material Culture for the Information Age from March 13th to April 26th. We are proud to be featured here in the same exhibit with famous artists such as Douglas Coupland!

In a world were you can speak to anyone, what do you want to say?

Emblems and icons, of colours, patterns, smells and more, are the building blocks, the raw components of a community and compose our cultural identity. We have collectively created and assembled this library of identity, and it is something we implicitly agree to share. Over time, it is this library that becomes the history, meaning and expression of our cultural experience.

In this information age, everything is competing for our attention. In this global age, identity is blurring and brands - in place of locations - are gaining in currency. To keep our material culture from disappearing, it must be exercised and never allowed to become narrow or stagnant. As creatives, the more we use our shared identity in our work, the more flexible and robust our culture becomes and our symbols become inspirational fountains.

Thanks Susie Wall!

Local Japanese newspaper interviewed one our designers at the "One of a kind" show at B.C. Place. For those of you that can read Japanese please click on the link below for the rest of the write up!

Many thanks to OOPS newspaper and reporter Kayoko-san!

Read Here