Fashion File is a Canadian television series, which airs on CBC Television and CBC Newsworld, as well as internationally in syndication. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page CBC Television is a Canadian English language Television network. CBC Newsworld is a Canadian English language Cable television specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through The series covers fashion industry news. Fashion refers to styles of dress (but can also include cuisine literature art architecture and general comportment that are popular in a culture at any given time
The series premiered in 1989. It was hosted from its inception until 2006 by Tim Blanks, who left the show at the end of 2006 to join the Canadian fashion magazine Flare as editor-at-large. Flare is a Canadian Fashion Magazine. It is owned by Rogers Communications. Over the winter of 2007, the CBC aired Fashion File Host Hunt, a short-run reality show in which ten finalists competed to become the new host of the show. Reality television is a genre of Television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations documents actual events and usually features ordinary
Adrian Mainella was chosen as the new host of the series at the end of the Host Hunt. Adrian Mainella is a Canadian fashion journalist and television personality Other contestants included Peter Papapetrou, Manny Neubacher, Justin Singh, Paul Pogue, Mary Kitchen, Stephanie Pigott, Jamey Ordolis, Raji Sohal and Henrietta Southam. Justin Singh is a Broadcast Communications graduate from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Raji Sohal is a Canadian radio and television personality A graduate of McGill University, where she completed a Master's degree in Communications and Art History The judges were fashion magazine editors Bronwyn Cosgrave and Suzanne Boyd, and Fashion File executive producer Réjean Beaudin.