VKFW Magazine - Spring Summer 2022

VKFW SPRING SUMMER

2022

VANCOUVER

KIDS FASHION WEEK

RETURNING TO RUNWAY

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MEET OUR TEAM

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VANCOUVER

KIDS FASHION WEEK

RETURNING TO RUNWAY

VKFW Director

Jia Seung

@jiaseung

Art Director

Jasmine Mingjie Weng @mjdesign414

Writer

Jaymee Salisi @jaymeesalisi

On The Cover PHOTOGRAPHER Tilly Nelson CLOTHES NOLO BACKGROUND Martim Braz

Editor

Graphic Designer

Contributor

Haley Sengsavanh

Maddie Fraser

Phoebe Lam

@haleysengsavanh

#VKFW

@maddiefraser_

@Phoebe Lam

MODEL Jordana Zinger Areen Yadav

Access live show updates during fashion week through all our social media channels and VKFW live stream on FACEBOOK and our WEBSITE. Announcements for model castings, magazine issues, giveaways, talent searches and more.

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VKFW CONTENTS

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17 Maison Louise

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Igloo

19 IKKS

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PK Beans

23 Little Princess Gown

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MEC Outdoor

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The latest collection for SS’22

“We are the IKKS generation”

High quality & luxury dresses

Brand name clothing with the best comfort

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Kids fashion: “exploration & art”

Kids fashion for playful living

Outdoor gear, clothing and services

Tico Chico

Vintage-dollhouse styled fashion

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SPRING SUMMER 2022

By Haley Sengsavanh

With COVID-19 restrictions loosening, Vancouver Kids Fashion Week was finally able to make its live show return.

This Spring Summer 2022 season occurred over two days, from October 23rd to 24th at the David Lam Hall in downtown Vancouver. The event was a huge success thanks in part to the incredible support of all our staff, volunteers, models, designers, parents, and sponsors. Talented young MCs from Indigo Education introduced all the designers and performances.

DAY ONE Day 2 included showcases from YeeHoo, Igloo Boutique and PK Beans. Another all-girl group from VISM closed the show, performing “Ex’s and Oh’s” by Elle King.

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DAY TWO

On Day 1, Tico Chico, Maison Louise, MED Outdoor, IKKS and Little Princess Gown dazzled the runway. The audience also got to enjoy two performances from child entertainers training under VISM Group Education. There was all-girl group Poly Poly’s adorable rendition of BTS’s hit song “Dynamite” and an original rap song from three boys.

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What audiences didn’t get to see was the backstage buzz, which was just as electric. Our MCs were practicing their lines before the show began, to ensure they’re reciting their lines right. The excited kid models went from hair to makeup to being dressed so they’re ready to strut their stuff. The designers took one last glance at each look before they went out on the runway. Of course, we can’t forget our incredible Vancouver Kids Fashion Week team, who worked so hard to ensure backstage went smoothly so the audiences could enjoy a successful show.

Vancouver Kids Fashion Week returns for another season next Spring. Be sure to follow our social media @vankidsfashionweek and check out our website vancouverkidsfashionweek.com for more details!

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VKFW KIDS MODEL CASTING Article by Reina Kuwahara A month before Fashion Week, kids’ model casting took place in the HY tea lounge in the waterfall building just at the corner of Kitsilano. Approximately over 200 kids and their parents lined up outside the building waiting for their turn to walk. Some were nervous, some were excited, some were too little to understand the instructions. Held by the BEETA Education group, the casting started with a pop beat. Welcomed by the balloons decorated by O2 Garden, the models majestically walked and posed on the runway. The VKFW director, Jia, says that the judge not only looks at the level of the walks but also their attitudes: whether they are confident and comfortable being in front of the public. Model casting for Vancouver Kids Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2022 returns next Spring. Please follow our Instagram @vankidsfashionweek and check out our website vancouverkidsfashionweek.com for updates!

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VISM MODEL TRAINING VISM MODEL TRAINING

VISM MODEL TRAINING For the past decade, VISM has been dedicated to providing top-level musical instrumental, vocal, modeling, acting, and K-Pop singing & dancing courses to kids ages 3 to 16 years old. VISM kids model runway course is designed for those who wish to continue their personal development, as well as those who would like to be involved in the exciting world of commercial print and or fashion modeling.

VISM modeling classes are great for new/intermediate/ experienced kid/child models who want to learn the correct modeling techniques for fashion runway as well as still modeling photo shoots. Also, for experienced kid/ child models, VISM trains and sharpens their skills to prepare them for a fashion runway.

VISM marketing produces various fashion show/ modeling competition productions and has numerous ongoing opportunities for networking and showcasing every child’s model brand. This year, VISM is honored to be one of the official partners of “2021 Vancouver Kids Fashion Week” for providing modeling training. On the day of casting on September 30th, over 200 child models came to VISM and participated in this amazing audition.

VISM, working with VKFW, helps every single child develop their modeling potential and reach out to Fashion Industry Professionals to enhance the chances of working with them as a child model.

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NOLO Mx was launched by Luis Corrales in Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico. With his passion and skills in graphic and interior design, he started his journey as a fashion designer in his late twenties in 2017.

NOLO Kids is the children’s branch of NOLO Mx. It provides comfortable and sporty streetwear for kids. The theme of this collection is playful and colourful. It uses different fluorescent colours such as pink, orange and green which showcases different children’s personalities. By using different colours, the collection brings out the diversity of the brand in a cheerful and lively style. This collection is suitable for casual wearing and comes in many different iconic styles and silhouettes. nolomx.com @nolo.mx PHOTOGRAPHED BY Tilly Nelson PHOTO ASSIST BY Haley Sengsavanh

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PURPLE SUIT / MARS ZHAO

BRIGHT PINK SUIT / ISABELLE MBAHO KANGAROO BAG HOODIE / ERIC LIANG

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NINETIES FEELS SUIT / MAKENNA SCOUT DAVIES HAPPY WINDBREAKER / ERIC LIANG

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BRIGHT PINK SUIT / ISABELLE MBAHO COBIJA COAT / MARS ZHAO

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NINETIES FEELS SUIT / MAKENNA SCOUT DAVIES

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aison Louise was founded by a Japanese-born, Canadian designer, Tomoko Oxenfarth, who graduated in 2020 from the fashion design program at St. Clair College. After being awarded as the top designer in her graduating class, she launched Maison Louise Canada. Inspired by the vibrant colours and rich history of Lake Louise in Alberta, her designs focus on feminine silhouettes and youthfully bright colours.

Maison Louise’s Spring/Summer 2022 Collection references French flower gardens, featuring combinations of spring colours that create harmony and chemistry. The lively influence of nature was reflected in the many fun fabrics and prints chosen, like this checkered pattern in bright yellow, tangerine, teal, and watermelon pink. Reminiscent of retro family vacation outfits, the pattern was also made into playful silhouettes such as cropped jumpsuits, fit and flare dresses, and circle skirts. The vibrant colours and shapes emulate the earth’s rebirth in the spring. www.maisonlouise.ca @maisonlouisecanada

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Since it was created over 30 years ago, IKKS has proudly proclaimed its status as a French fashion house.

Today, IKKS describes themselves as an all-encompassing concept, state of mind and lifestyle. IKKS Junior offers boys and girls aged from 0–18 years a creative and fashionable wardrobe.

The “We Are Young” collection draws inspiration from street style to create an urban chic look designed for teens.

opened with a relaxed cream above the knee dress, a light green army jacket with black fur lining, and black knee high boots. Embracing kids’ individuality, the collection included stylish metallic gold and silver padded jackets and capes ready to wear all season long. A dark navy rubber and sherpa-lined waxed parka featured a high collar, hood, and tone-on-tone animal print.

The brand’s Spring/Summer 2021 showcase at Vancouver Fashion Week

IKKS girls’ line featured a grey marl knit sweater with a statement twisted

bow and cable knit detail down the sleeves. The street style inspiration is reflected in the boys’ blue graphic textured T-shirt with an image of a bear holding a sign reading “believe in earth.” The brand offers a plethora of garments consumers can mix and match, creating the perfect balance between elegant style and a relaxed look. www.ikks.com @ikksofficial

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With COVID-19 continuing to impact our daily lives, it is essential to keep our personal environment clean and safe.

FOREST CURE is an innovative brand, offering complete sanitization, as well as the perfect aroma for your personal space.

By pairing FOREST CURE’s flagship Premium Essential Oil with their best-selling Smart Diffuser, it effectively eliminates 99% of bacteria.

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FOREST CURE Instant Cleansing Mist

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About FOREST CURE

FOREST CURE Smart Oil Diffuser

FOREST CURE offers a premium antibacterial essential oil that is sustainably extracted from the forests of the Pacific Northwest, through a purification extraction process. This quality essential oil blend is the key ingredient in our entire product range and is safe for our skin, is alcohol-free, and provides a long-lasting aroma.

We also wanted our essential oils to be different. Not only did we seek the perfect fragrance, we went above and beyond and commissioned scientists to research natural antibacterial oils. We also utilized the services of a leading British Columbia University and 2 leading, independent laboratories in Canada to conduct antibacterial tests.

Our essential oils are carefully blended for their beautiful aroma, with the added protection of being anti-bacterial and environmentally safe.

We are committed to manufacturing premium products and providing solutions for global markets from our headquarter in Richmond, BC.

This ia a state-of-the-art essential oil diffuser that utilizes its smart technology to measure and evaluate the concentrations of essential oil levels and emits vapor levels to suit your surroundings, so you can always have peace of mind knowing the air you breathe in is clean.

When placed in moving vehicles, it can capture and evaluate the concentration level of fragrance within and activate automatically. The diffuser has a built-in ultrasonic smart chip, which can nano-atomize the essential oil, preserve oil integrity, and increase the fragrance concentration by 90% compared to regular diffusers.

With three operation modes to choose from, users can easily adjust the volume of essential oil vaporization. The diffuser is made of alloy materials, which is safe and enduring.

The diffuser is portable and may be used without a power connection. Once fully charged, the battery life is 30 days.

Smart Ultrasonic Essential Oil Diffuser

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Included: - 1 Diffuser. (Diameter 3.75in x Height 1.5in, weight 170gm.

Ultra-quiet) (Refill essential oils available.)

- 2 10ml bottles of Anti Bacteria All-Natural Scented Essential Oil. - 1 Essential Oil Container.

- 3 Miniature bottles of Essential Oil. - 1 USB cord. (Rechargeable) - Wireless travel size. (For home, office, or vehicle) - Automatic aroma adjuster.

- 1 User Manual.

- A beautiful gift box and bag.

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ittle Princess Gown designs and makes high quality flower-girl, prom, and party dresses for girls. To ensure every garment is created with maximum attention to detail, the brand offers customizable styles, colours, and fabrics for the convenience of their customers. Little Princess Gown also takes orders for performances events like ballet shows, the theater, or kids’ choir.

They opened their Spring/Summer 2022 runway showcase with a pastel pink taffeta gown. It was topped with pink flower details over its strapless neckline and flared out into a wide, regal skirt structured by a cage hoop. Living up to the brand’s name, each girl wore a unique tiara and floated down the runway dressed in exceptional mint, baby pink, sky blue, and bright yellow ballgowns. Each design included at least one signature “princess” element of puff sleeves, petticoats, or tulle. By offering high quality garments, Little Princess Gowns is determined to build up customers’ trust for online shopping. This brand believes every little girl is a princess and aims to make them look the part. @littleprincessgown VKFW SPRING/SUMMER 22

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eehoo Baby is a boutique store specializing in infant, young boys and girls clothing. They sell brand name and high quality clothing that gives children the best style and comfort.

The designer brands they carry include Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Kenzo, Moschino, and Fendi. Their original clothing gives children the gift of quality tailoring and design.

Yeehoo’s Spring/Summer 2022 showcase brought the youthfulness of arts and crafts to the runway. The brand leaned into themes of school and play by introducing unique pencil, crayon, strawberry, and bow patterns to their clothing. Matching the theme, they also included pieces with the iconic teddy bear print from the designer brand Moschino. The brand stood out with versatility in their collection, showing that their pieces can be worn in the classroom and to big events. They included two-tone bright orange and pink shorts matched with an open red, blue, and yellow cardigan. To contrast the everyday style, they presented girls’ tulle party dresses elegantly bedazzled with jewel details.

Yeehoo focuses on providing premium care to children by producing clothes in the finest quality. They value children’s growth by providing the best for them. Visit their showroom in Aberdeen Center, Richmond, BC! www.yeehoobaby.com @yeehoovancouver

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VIsM VISM Education is one of the largest comprehensive music and art education institutions in Vancouver. Its music educational brands include VISM Music Academy; VISM International Music School Consulting; V-Star Entertainment Agency; Twinkle Stage Music and Art Academy (Wuhan, China). VISM currently has three different locations in the Greater Vancouver area (Richmond, White Rock, and Langley), and its teaching staff includes a team of experts from the world’s top music schools such as Royal College of Music in London and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

VISM has a close working relationship with “The World Music Competition” in Europe, OYMI International Music Festival (Outstanding Young Musicians International Music Festival) in Canada, Kids Planet Agency in Korea, China Central Television, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Hunan Satellite TV and many other well-known medias both in China and over the world.

VISM International Music School Consulting was established by VISM Education founder Yichan Shu and her team. This consultant team includes a careful selection of authoritative in-service professors from top music universities all over the world and careers consulting experts in music and art education industry, aiming to provide international students and candidates with the best professional consulting service in regard to school admission and career planning. In addition, VISM Consulting provides students with pre-test professional training, art career planning, international music competition opportunities, college application assistance and other related services, and helps every candidate with international music school supplemental applications. VISM Consulting strives to help candidates quickly and efficiently through upgrading their professional skills and exploring occupational opportunities involved in the music and art industry. www.vism.ca

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@vismmusic

For more than a decade, VISM has been a noteworthy leader in children’s music and arts training, as well as in talent development education. Founded in 2010, VISM has been dedicated to providing customized and joyful music and instrumental lessons for every single kid, aiming to develop children’s music and arts talent learning and plan for future development.

“Poly Poly” is V-Star Entertainment’s newest Sing & Dance Kids Idol Group, training under VISM Group Education.

The group was established in September 2021, being V-Star’s first official Sing and Dance Kids Pop Idol Group in Vancouver. “Poly Poly” is bright, full of energy and loves to perform! The team members are Aubrey Guo, Chloe Pan, Monica Wang, Olivia Mali, and Victoria Jiang. The girls’ age ranges from 7-8 years old.

“Poly Poly” is preparing for their music video cover shoot and their own original song next year. They will also be representing Canada on behalf of VISM and V-Star, to participate in international performances tour. This year, VISM is very proud to have Poly Poly perform BTS’ “Dynamite” on the stage of Vancouver Kids Fashion Week.

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The second Idol group training under VISM Education group, “Mira” was also established this September, as V-Star’s first official Sing and Dance Teen Pop Idol Group in Vancouver. “Mira” girls are dedicated, daring and always excited to perform! The team members are Angela Zhao, Cristianna Jim and Sophie Cai. The girls range in 14-17 years old. “Mira” is preparing for their music video cover shoot and their own original song later this year. They will also be representing Canada, on behalf of VISM and V-Star, on an international tour. This year, VISM is very proud to have “Mira” perform Elle King’s “Ex’s & Oh’s” on the stage of Vancouver Kids Fashion Week. www.vism.ca @vismmusic

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“Ayla” is another Sing & Dance Kids Idol Group under V-Star Entertainment. Also established this September, “Ayla” is recognized as Vancouver’s first official Sing and Dance Youth Pop Idol Group under V-Star. The members are Elena Gun, Julie Tang, Rena Ding, Tracy Zhong, and Wanqing Chen. The girls range in age from 9-11 years old; they are hardworking, supportive and courageous. “Ayla” is preparing for their music video cover shoot and their own original song coming later this year. They will also be representing Canada, on behalf of VISM and V-Star to participate in international tour. This year, VISM is very proud to have “Ayla” perform Alessia Cara and Zedd’s “Stay” on the stage of Vancouver Kids Fashion Week.

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gloobaby represents a rich world of children’s fashion to be explored. The brand began with a desire to bring something unique to the marketplace, carrying an élite collection of baby and children’s products that allows children to look and feel as artistic and creative as their parents. Every piece offered by Igloobaby is carefully designed and selected. Whether you are searching for a few key pieces or a complete ensemble, Igloobaby can help!

The brand highly values the relationships they develop with their customers. Igloobaby prides themselves on going above and beyond to make customers feel welcome as a part of our community. The Igloobaby team expresses their excitement to meet new members of their growing Igloobaby community and family. Committed to heart, mind, and diversity, the brand’s vision is to “become the first place for children to develop their aesthetic ability to explore the beauty of the world.”

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For their Spring/Summer 2022 collection, Igloobaby played with a range of sweet retro dresses with ribbon and flower details for girls. For boys they included grey, green, and navy blue outerwear and formalwear. Igloobaby showed off their creativity with a standout rose textured champagne taffeta dress. The piece shimmered and bounced with the model’s every step, but the details of the dress made it shine the most. The short puff sleeves, velvet sash and bows lining the second tier of the dress and gold mary jane shoes brought the formal yet youthful and whimsical look together. They also showed their bold side with a glossy black cropped boys’ puffer jacket detailed with a high collar and fringe.

Distinct pieces such as this one highlights Igloobaby’s themes of exploration and art. Their showroom is located at 3080 Granville Street Vancouver.

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pk beans PK Beans started as a grassroots company 14 years ago in Richmond, British Columbia. The brand’s mission is to preserve and protect our most precious things — our earth and our play time on it! After struggling with years of unexplained infertility, founder Traci Costa and her husband were finally able to conceive their first child through in vitro fertilization. Reveling in the joys of parenting, Traci found herself wondering why children’s clothing was so fussy and didn’t support children’s developmental, physical and social requirements. Learning more about play and its key role in early childhood development, Traci set out to create clothing that allowed children to play freely, while being comfortable, durable, and stylish.

The brand’s thoughtful designs include functional details to reduce fuss when dressing. They also make mixing and matching styles easy and create custom fabrics so kids don’t have to worry about feeling itchy in their PK Beans clothes! The functionality of their clothes was highlighted by their sherpa ¼ zip sweaters, flowy velvet pants, flexible sweatsets, and playful onesies in the brand’s Spring/ Summer 2022 showcase. Patterns such as stripes and polka dots added to the joy in this PK Beans collection.

Young models walked down the runway with a matching doll in hand, or together with another model.

Ethically made and designed to last, PK Beans is devoted to reviving and recycling. To demonstrate their commitment, if a customer’s garment gets a hole or a stain and their clothing is no longer wearable, the piece can be returned to PK Beans! The garment will be made into something new through their adorable Repurposed Doll Clothing Collection, called Lil Bean. PK Beans believes playful living makes happier humans.

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MEC’s commitment to product quality involves rigorous testing to ensure their garments meet performance requirements before use. At a fair price, MEC’s designs are made with the purpose of withstanding conditions of the environments they’re created for — whether it’s a snow jacket for skiing or a t-shirt and leggings for everyday wear.

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ith awareness of animal welfare and deforestation, MEC is committed to using materials that contribute to sustainability. Their products are 100% Certified Responsible Down and 100% certified by the Leather Working Group. These commitments improve environmental impact, promote traceability, and ensure that animals are responsibly raised. The brand is constantly putting efforts towards making their products with at least one environmental or social responsibility feature. These features include recycled content, organic content, or Lyocell fabric. By 2025, MEC aims for 100% of their fabrics to be bluesign approved®, 50% of their polyester to be made from recycled content, and to use 100% postconsumer recycled paper in every hang tag. By supporting MEC, customers help conserve the places where we play and support all Canadians getting active outside.

On the Spring/Summer 2022 runway, MEC dressed their models in matching jackets and pants as well as full body blue and purple snowsuits. The childfriendly snowsuits are specially designed for easy wear, with zippers in places that make the garment easy to put on and take off. In addition to their product quality goals, MEC aims to treat people and the planet with respect by reducing their environmental footprint. The brand uses sustainable material such as Tencel® and organic cotton. Tencel® is a non-toxic fibre created from pulp sourced from trees grown on the Forest Stewardship Council certified farm.

Organic cotton uses less water to grow, which helps the earth by reducing energy demand. @mec www.mec.ca

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ased out of Shanghai and founded by two mothers in 2020, TicoChico’s natural fabrics and playful patterns incorporate creativity and whimsy into children’s clothing. As a sustainable kids fashion brand, the designers of TicoChico utilize wool and cotton to create quality garments with full and lively shapes. The brand showcased playful ruffle collars, balloon sleeves, and checkered patterns on the Spring/Summer 2022 runway at Vancouver Fashion Week. These traits were reminiscent of the vintage handmade styles seen in retro dollhouse clothing.

In line with their sustainable fashion values, TicoChico showcased natural earth tones and pastels such as tea green, terracotta, tan brown, baby pink, and plum. The brand encourages self-expression among children through youthful pieces such as their multi-colour stripe and polka dot printed two-piece set and jacquard knit sweaters. TicoChico’s babydoll dresses, button details, and bows highlight playful characteristics of comfort and style. @tico_chico_

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InDIGO EDUCATIOn

https://www.canadaindigo.com/en/

Indigo Education’s public speaking program focuses on the performance of text and developing communication skills.

We help students prepare for Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) exams. The RCM’s speech arts exams are highly regarded in Canada, and offer comprehensive practical and theory exams that broaden and deepen students’ knowledge and skills in performance and communication arts. Once our students have built foundational communication skills and develop confidence in performing, we provide our students with many opportunities to host and perform in local community events, such as Vancouver Kids Fashion Week. Indigo Education’s students have hosted the VKFW show for the past 8 seasons. We also specialize in teaching and creating original rap content to children. Communication consists of much more than just simple words, being able to communicate effectively and add personal charm and intonation to speech sets you apart from others and is an important life skill. Public speaking classes help equip children for success in areas of interviews, presentations and relaying information to others.

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Indigo Education specializes in independent school applications servicing the higher end market with comprehensive educational solutions.

Through early planning, excellent characteristics and personal qualities can be instilled in children. With the passage of time, these characteristics and qualities become a natural part of a child’s being, which will empower them and set them on the right path of life, so they can achieve the best and be the best they can be.

We serve families with 2-18 year-olds with their general training and school applications. We provide educational training, consulting service and planning fully based on western culture and western thinking.

At Indigo Education, our goals are to help each child with the highly customized lessons to further enhance and strengthen their self-confidence. Meanwhile, we focus on public speaking, emceeing, creative writing, emotional regulation for children and leadership skills training. We also provide other language tutoring services like Spanish and French.

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Indigo Education was founded in August 2011 as a consulting service company focusing on promoting Ivy League elite culture. It works in cooperation with many school boards in BC and Canada. It also has a lot of high-quality educational resources to share.

In the past five years, Indigo Education has been the designated emcee training organization for the Vancouver Kids Fashion Week and many other stage performances.

Indigo Education has been inspiring and making many excellent public speaking children and youths over the years with it high calibre and dedicated teachers and quality educational resources. Many children excel and grow to be more confident in themselves than ever which helps them further improve academically and in their abilities of mastering the English language.

We work with top educational consultants and highly specialized teachers to provide comprehensive personalized services, school application services, educational planning and overseas studies services to elite families in Metro Vancouver.

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Aaron is a keen observer, an inquirer, a caring older brother and an active boy with lots of interests. He enjoys meeting new people and has lots of friends. He loves books on space and dinosaurs. He is always fascinated by how things work and how to make things better. He enjoys helping out as a big brother and takes pride in bringing a smile to his little brother’s face. His hobbies are soccer, basketball, golf, piano and horseback riding.

Andy is only three, but he shows a unique maturity that is beyond his age. Andy is a sweet, caring, gentle and curious boy. He is aware of his surroundings, attending to others’ moods and feelings, lending a helping hand and speaking kindly. He loves walking ahead in order to hold the door open for people. Andy is eager to learn, to love, to make friends and to participate in activities. His hobbies are soccer, reading and horseback riding.

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Alice is turning 5 years old. She loves singing, dancing, and drama playing. She enjoys the stage and the cheering from the audience. Her dream is to be a super star.

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Elena Meng Elena is a happy and outgoing 5-year-old girl.

She is friendly and curious about the world.

Elena is caring about everyone around her and animals are always her friends. She is passionate about singing and drawing.

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Roris Wang Roris Wang, who is five years old, is a very caring boy. He is an open-minded, curious and observant explorer. Roris likes to stay energized and explore different sports programs. He likes to skate, play basketball and badminton.

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Alice Xu

Elendil Borjigin Elendil Borjigin is an optimistic and easygoing boy who likes playing soccer and biking. He is always willing to try new things.

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Luca Liang My name is Luca and I am three years old. Soccer is my favourite sport. I want to be a soccer player when I grow up.

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Kaia is a happy, energetic, imaginative, independent, and caring girl, she is willing to try and challenge anything new to her.

She has endless questions about the world and imagines entire worlds from what she sees.

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Helen Li My name is Helen Li. I am 8 years old. I am in Grade 3. My favorite book & movie is Harry Potter,and my favorite character is Hermione Granger.

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Kaia Shu

Lexi Yu Lexi is a compassionate, happy, lovely and curious girl. Lexi cares deeply for younger individuals and animals. Lexi is observant and curious and she never stops asking thoughtprovoking questions. She has a great passion for drawing, singing, and playing the piano.

· BEETA EDUCATION · Stephaine Lu Stephanie is a Grade 5 student at Crofton House School. She was the top “All-Around Winner” in North America for the 2019 “Super Kids” Modeling Contest, and among the top 10 at international contests in Dubai. Off the runway she devoted herself to five international volunteer trips in three countries where she helped children and animals in need. As a talented sports fan, Stephanie is adept at Hockey, basketball, volleyball, horse riding and skiing.

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Timmy Zhou Hi my name is Timmy, I am 3 years old. I am attending Legacy Boy Academy right now.

I am very outstanding, positive, and full of imagination! I like to swim, play basketball, draw, and astronomy.

Anastasia Li

Freya Pan

Elsa Wang

Being in JK in both St. John’s School and Oakridge Montessori, Anastasia is always passionate about learning and making new friends, and is never fearful of challenges.

Freya is a happy, easy-going and confident girl. She is gifted in Arts and Languages.

She speaks fluent Mandarin, English and French. She loves drawing, chatting, coding and rabbits.

Elsa is a friendly, considerate, courageous and open-minded ten-year-old girl.

She tends to be a little bit reserved in an unfamiliar environment, but she is known by her friends to be a good listener, a problem solver, funny, supportive and simply fun to be around.

Elsa enjoys reading, drawing and painting, gymnastic, field hockey, skiing, and handcrafts. Elsa is also known by her friends as a creative artist and writer, and she always takes the initiative to design some posters for the group projects.

Thank you! Now that we have come to the end of VKFW, I would like to express my warmest thanks to the organizers who made everything happen, and the Canadian Cancer Society for providing such a good opportunity for us to be part of the progress in curing cancer.

A special thank you goes to all the families who have shown their social responsibilities. With your involvement, we have raised $6000 to support cancer research.

We are looking forward to seeing you next year!

Hannah Chen I’m Hannah, life is filled with a lot of fun.

Enjoy it!

Eileen Wang The Founder of Beeta Education

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During the three days, professional models displayed the work of 36 talented designers from different countries. The fashion week is a great opportunity for designers to increase exposure of their brands worldwide.

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