Last week’s Canadian fashion feast brought tasty trends, marvelous design morsels, and colourful construction confections.  Some ask if Canadian collections are shown too late to break trends - the answer is, of course not!
L’Oréal Fashion Week took over downtown Toronto and made it look better for six days by showing off the country’s best fashion-forward [...]

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After Friday’s runway disaster, the last thing I wanted to do was go out, but Sandee dragged me out of my studio and out of my funk by making me go to the LG Fashion Fusion show.
She showed me that the articles about my show were funny, not critical, and she said that she saw [...]

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I stayed in all day wondering what to do about my sinister secret admirer, who is an admirer of a different sort than I imagined. Bernie came over to hear my latest theory on who is responsible for the deceptively luxurious goods.

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This morning, I rolled out of bed and into a Lucian Matis outfit, Cesare Paciotti heels from Brown’s, and packed my Brown’s Couture handbag to attend the Drake Survivor Brunch and Fashion Week Wrap Up, hosted by the adorable Mary Kitchen.
Her guests included The Toronto Star’s David Livingstone, Holt Renfrew’s John Gerhardt, The Globe and [...]

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Aaaahhhhhh! All the reviews are TERRIBLE!  I didn’t think anything could be worse than only getting one review like last season!  Even Bernie Debt doesn’t have much nice to say about me this season, unless you think the following review is nice:
“For her second collection, Max Velosse showed what can only be described as a [...]

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This morning in The Toronto Star, I read the Fashion Design Council of Canada’s reaction to the emergence of “Anonymous”. The petition reached its intended audience and all has been reported, so now I am under no obligation to identify “Anonymous”.
The sophisticated behaviour is now to wait and see what will happen at the FDCC [...]

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Designer Statement: I’m a fashion rebel. I want to break all the fashion rules. Who says you need just one inspiration for a collection? There are too many influences in this world to be restrained.
Backstage was a whirlwind when I arrived. So what if I was an hour late? All the organizers acted like it [...]

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Brrr…there’s a chill in the air and it is not the weather alone causing the temperature drop around the Fashion Week tents.
Robin Kay’s scandalous opening night speech brought cold shoulders and cold stares, but it also brought back “Anonymous”, who is once again attempting to overthrow Toronto’s most talked-about fashion personality via email.  So far [...]

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What was I thinking going out last night, drinking all that free RICH Prosecco? I never get to have fancy drinks and it was all free at Biddell’s afterparty, so I had to drink it. If I didn’t, it just would have been wrong.
But wrong is how I feel! Wrong, wrong, wrong! Last night I [...]

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I thought I saw Fiona lurking behind a Nathan Phillips Square pillar today. The poor girl loves fashion so much that she can’t stay away, even if she is in exile after the animal cruelty incident. I just knew she would envy my Andy Thê-Anh off-the shoulder suit, Jenn Day silver necklace and studs from [...]

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