t’s time to reach way back into the depths of your closet and bust out all the items you secretly covet but would feign to wear in public. Toronto has a contingency of conservative dressers with snobby attitudes who like to look down on anyone who takes a fashion risk. Thankfully, the producers of L'Oreal Fashion Week – that would be the Fashion Design Council of Canada - are putting up a fight against peer pressure fashion monotony with the ensuing Toronto Fashion Week tradition. Six days of good clothes, fashion faux pas and parties will go off with many a hitch and drama galore. Look out for the best dressed, the worst dressed, fashion shows in the good, the bad and the ugly categories and a condensed list of designers to offer you some background for your critiquing pleasure. Stick around. This could get interesting.

Designer Shortlist
There are thirty-three fashion shows happening over the course of six days. Considering that there are only 24 hours in a day it would be nearly impossible to attend each and every one. Instead we’ve decided to cover a shortlist of the best and boldest designers on the roster.

Pushing buttons, developing characters, and generating excitement.

Expect international brands (some official, some not) like J. Lindeberg and Michael Kors along with local heroes Preloved and Pink Cobra. Get the scoop for everything you need to know for dinner-party conversation about L'Oreal Fashion Week. …More info



Runway Reviews
Local long-legged fourteen-year-old beauties are on display mode and used as living hangers the week, as the exposure is just as important for any budding model. For the ever-increasing amount of Canadian models out there this is a sure-fire event they can all count on. We will be eyeing the new collections with eager detail and reporting on which designers hit the mark, who shocked us and who failed miserably. Up-and-coming designers and models will be discussed and dissected, even pined for in the coming week. Please don’t hesitate to peruse and weigh in with your opinions and stories. …More info



Sartorialist Blog
Your average fashion show will last about twenty minutes. It’s all fine and dandy to drool over scrumptious models in the yet-to-hit-the-stores ready to wear, but the real juice is in the front row. We’ll be watching out for personal fashion statements whether they be exceptionally good or dissappointingly bad. We hope to make style stars and slobs out of Toronto’s fashion elite. Nix that. We hope to help Toronto bolster a fashion elite. If you wear a full-body multi-hued knit jumpsuit with fro-ed out hair and wedge heels we’ll make you into a style star. Budget Joe Fresh or big budget evening wear = Style Slob. You've been warned. …More info



…Knee-Deep in Fashion Week
That was part of the vision at the L'Oreal Fashion Week, day two. While previous Fashion Weeks have been showcasing designers shuttling out apparel for well-to-do nuclear families, the 15th edition of Fashion Week features budding Canadian designers that could burst international at any moment. International designers are present too, showcasing their presentations of Fall 2008 collections.
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