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 plans to explore working with the dress form in different mediums. 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.