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The best from the finale of Toronto’s Alternative Fashion Week

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Heidi Ackerman and Lindsay Sinclair's collaborative collection. Photography by Alice Zilberberg, digitalfabrik.ca

The second half of [FAT] shifted from presentations of (relatively) wearable street fashion seen earlier in the week to runway-shows-come-performance-art that featured some truly impressive avant-garde and theatrical designs.

Night three with its theme of ‘Fashion/Unfashion’ drew unprecedented crowds hovering on tip-toes around the coveted seating to catch shows of buzzed about designers like Breeyn McCarney and Heidi Ackerman, whose capsule collection was accessorized with sculptural bent wood adornments by industrial designer Lindsay Sinclair. Our favourite looks from the collaboration were a gold parachute coat and a black chiffon one-piece pantsuit, the lightness of which was balanced by a panelled wood collar that spanned from the model’s breastbone to above her ears.
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The best from the first two nights of Toronto’s Alternative Fashion Week

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Left: Emily Woudenberg. Right: Jessica Mary Clayton. Photography by Alice Zilberberg, digitalfabrik.ca

When attending [FAT], Toronto’s alternative arts and fashion week—with its norm-subverting, boundary-busting mandate—it’s impossible to predict what’s in store for the (equally eclectic) audience. Runway presentations over the first two nights have featured ballerinas, acrobats and a puzzling—albeit comical (though maybe not intentionally)—light-saber dual. But beyond the showmanship, we were delighted to discover some true talent. Here are our favourites from the first two nights:
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Ones to watch: NorBlack NorWhite gives
‘Made in India’ a modern edge

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After enduring months of sub-zero temperatures, most of us are suffering from winter wanderlust—the desperate desire to be any place where the temperature climbs above ten degrees. While a stamp on our passports might have to wait, we can imagine ourselves in blissfully blistering Kachchh, India thanks to Amrit Kumar and Mriga Kapadiya, the designing duo behind the new label NorBlack NorWhite.
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Saddle up! FASHION heads to Phoenix to wrangle some southwest accessories

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Photography by Charlotte Herrold

Like its perfect partner, denim, western wear never really goes out of style. But every so often, the true grit trend has a runway revival, with designers reinterpreting its classic tenets in irresistibly modern ways. Spring 2011 was such a season: Ralph Lauren⎯but of course⎯corralled cowgirl cool with metallic boots, silver and stone jewellery and fringed leather, Blumarine went wild, belting flashy animal prints with oversized ram’s-head buckles and Hermès reigned in the look with chic equestrian details topped off with sophisticated Stetson-esque wide-brimmed hats.

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