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Oh Wow! I'm back after a very long day, but it was well worth my achy feet.

The first day of LG Fashion Week started off by the doors opening at 6pm to a large crowd of Toronto's most fashionably dressed insiders and their entire entourages. Heels galore! And attempting to climb metal bleachers nonetheless!

the new venue, David Pecaut Square, is set up in a tent fashion presumably similar to the New York shows, but I must admit I did miss the larger Heritage Court venue for a minute there. So much room and places to take pictures! However, then I saw this venue offered free food, and I felt better.


Everyone looked amazing and dressed to the nines. Especially the FDCC workers who briskly shuffled us around while looking chic in all black attire. In case you didn't know already, fur is in for fall, as was confirmed tonight by the chic fashionistas casually taking their seats by twirling on the runway a few times beforehand. I was personally too shy and felt all eyes on me when walking to my seat, particularly during the Holt Renfrew show, so putting on a pre-show for the awaiting audience was not in the cards.

Plus, said audience didn't help! Internationally renowned individuals such as Suzanne Rogers, the Weston family, Jeanne Becker, Glenn Baxter, Stacie McKenzie, Keshia Chante, Yasmin Warsame, and Jully Black sat front row to LG's opening shows. Organizations represented included IMG, America's Next Top Model, Holt Renfrew, KentonMagazine, Fashion Television, CityTV, Flare Magazine and many many others. My mind is a blur of all the incredible people I saw and had a chance to talk to.

I got to take a quick sneak peak at the models backstage beforehand. This is their view going onto the catwalk. Slightly daunting, but the models seemed uber relaxed listening to music and sitting in hair and makeup. Speshhh, we're professionals, they all probably thought. I quickly grabbed my seat next to this:

 ...and away we went! Holt Renfrew started things off with an awesome runway, an elegant speech by Robin Kay (though hard to see who was speaking through the letters) and pounding music. Somehow, the "Canada Cool" theme was more than I expected, considering I only factored in a weather interpretation. Silly me, these are creative types, look deeper! Looking up into the media balconies, I could envision a Canadian Kelly Coutrone hard at work putting this all together.
 To better assist in my recap I will add my favourite photos from the FDCC facebook to not annoy the blogesphere with my blackberry photos (next time I will not be too vain to wear a camera around my neck!).






Arthur Mendonca's show was fresh and colourful, mixing and matching brights in an Egyptian feel. Think Cleopatra at a rave! It's no wonder Rhianna and Keshia Chante and huge fans of his pieces.

These were two incredible shows I got to see and I am very grateful to have participated in such a well orchestrated elite fashion presentation here in my city. The 25th season of LG is off to a great start, and I can't wait to attend more shows during the week! Stay tuned!