Costumes and wearable art

He started his career cutting and sewing costumes. At Never Apart he kept designing them: feathers for Pride, ruffles for a photo campaign, wearable art for Wiggle.

Organization: Never Apart, Age of Union
Years: 2015-2021
Locations: Place Émilie-Gamelin, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Never Apart centre
Role: Costume and prop design

Village Paradise, Montreal Pride 2015

On August 14, 2015, Never Apart and Fierté Montreal produced the Village Paradise show at Place Émilie-Gamelin. Sylvain created the Birds of Paradise feather costumes, worn on stage by Plastik Patrik, Mikela Jay and Jordan King.

Rose Tint, summer 2021 campaign

For Never Apart's summer 2021 visual campaign, he made the costume and props: a plunging sequinned gown, pink ruffled wings and a chain headpiece. Art direction by Fritz Picault, photography by Damian Siqueiros, with model Leila Rugmbarara.

Wiggle at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2019

On May 1, 2019, the Wiggle wearable art show moved into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, alongside its Thierry Mugler exhibition. Sylvain is listed among the show's wearable art designers, next to The House of Venus and Never Apart.

And now, Onomiko

That know-how carries on in Onomiko, his label of robes, tunics and wrap dresses.

Discover Onomiko

The Never Apart centre

Gallery

Portrait of a Black model with rhinestone make-up, a chain headpiece with a pink oval plate and a ruffled pink organza shoulder, on a pink background. — Never Apart's Rose Tint summer 2021 campaign: costume and props by Sylvain Brochu, photo by Damian Siqueiros.

Glossy black mannequin bust wearing the pink costume with large ruffles, the sequinned top and the chain headpiece, beside branches and pink berries. — Rose Tint, Never Apart's summer 2021 campaign: costume and props by Sylvain Brochu, art direction by Fritz Picault, photo by Damian Siqueiros.

Black and white: performer facing forward in a feather costume with a tall radiating headdress and large spread wings, under spotlights. — Birds of Paradise feather costume created by Sylvain Brochu, on stage at Village Paradise (Fierté Montreal), August 14, 2015.

Black and white: performer in three-quarter view in a feather costume, curly headdress and open wings, in stage haze. — Birds of Paradise feather costume with spread wings, created by Sylvain Brochu, Village Paradise (Fierté Montreal), August 14, 2015.

Eight black and white stage photos: two performers in feather costumes with headdresses and wings, singers, a host at the mic, spotlight beams. — Eight stage photos from Village Paradise, a show produced by Never Apart with Fierté Montreal, August 14, 2015; top row, the Birds of Paradise feather costumes created by Sylvain Brochu.

Black and white: about fifteen people pose in front of a tent and a parasol, feather headdresses at both ends of the group. — The Village Paradise team and performers in front of the site tents, with elements of Sylvain Brochu's Birds of Paradise feather costumes, August 14, 2015.

Six models in extravagant wearable art costumes posing in front of THIERRY MUGLER lettering on a dark wall dotted with lights. — Wiggle at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (May 1, 2019), alongside the Thierry Mugler: Couturissime exhibition; Sylvain Brochu is credited among the wearable art creators.

Group of performers in colourful wearable art costumes, painted masks and yarn and flower headpieces, against a light background. — Wiggle at Centre Never Apart (May 18, 2019), the main event of the festival's 25th anniversary: performers in wearable art costumes.