Vanessa has been working in Vancouver’s fashion industry for 9 years. In 2008 she founded Next Door Style Group whose mandate is to promote and support local art and design in Vancouver. Realizing she wanted to explore a return to her own creativity, she changed focus to art installations. At the East Side Culture Crawl she will display a wearable collection of japanese and fetish inspired silhouettes. This will be the fifth art installation for 'Blossom'. Past art installations are : “Evolution Scarf” displayed at Burning Man 2009, “Reflections of Style” displayed at the Vancouver Home & Interior Design Show Oct. 2009 & "I thought it was our little secret" displayed at Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle, Nov. 2009.