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Video: Must-have shoes and bags
Fashion market editor Sarah Casselman on the top trends in spring accessories (including a swoon-worthy pair of golden-girl YSLs).
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Vancouver: Eugene Choo pulls you out of the dregs of winter

Pieces from Mono's "Interlacing Opposing Thoughts"
Is it just me, or do this year’s Boxing Day sales seem to be dragging on forever? What is it now, mid-February? And it wasn’t until a week ago that I started to see a significant decrease in 50 to 80 per cent off notices in my inbox. But I truly realized how desperate this situation is, when a recent visit to one of my regular Main Street haunts yielded an ominously empty response to the friendly question, “Hey! What’s new?”
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Daily reads: We heart Liz Claiborne, Rome does not heart Giorgio Armani

Liz and Isaac go on safari for Spring 2009.
We tend not to be overly effusive around here, but holy crumb do we ever love the new Liz Claiborne (that’s right) collection by our Valentine, Isaac Mizrahi. [Liz Claiborne, via Fashionista]
The Rome fashion community is ticked at Giorgio Armani after he told the media they showed second-rate designers. [Reuters]
Fashion » At the shows
Toronto: Janet Hill, Eugenia and Nada Yousif

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
At the Janet Hill show Friday, Ryerson fashion students rushed to fill the front row seats (likely vacated by too-tired journalists), self-consciously snapping photos of each other and wide-eyeing the cluster of real photogs at the end of the runway.
Fashion » At the shows
Toronto: Denis Gagnon

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}
By Sarah Casselman
The final day at the tents was an air kissing, Peroni-sipping good time. Yours truly spent time in the sponsor lounge talking accessories (Hermès H bangles) and lingerie (think naughty and nice) with the Agent Provocateur PR rep, Elyn. Despite the long week, I felt energized and could feel the electricity in the air for the long awaited Denis Gagnon spring collection.
Fashion » At the shows
Mellinda-Mae Harlingten, Lucian Matis, Afshin Feiz

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Vancouver’s Mellinda-Mae Harlingten just showed her sixth season of cute ultra-basics, so someone must be buying them. They’re certainly wearable.
Fashion » At the shows
League of Lovers, Evan & Dean and more

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
At League of Lovers and Thieves, a collaborative interplay between Toronto designers Sonja Den Elzen (Thieves) and Dana Kiyoko Takeda (League of Lovers), hearts were stolen with ease and grace.
Fashion » At the shows
Toronto: Morales and Rudsak

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}
By Sarah Casselman
This season, everything is coming up roses for designer Renata Morales who sent models down the runway in an array of ethereal, candyfloss frocks.
Fashion » At the shows
Carlie Wong, Zoran Dobric, Evan Biddell and more

FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Fifteen minutes late is no longer fashionable. This I learned the hard way, arriving to Carlie Wong’s sophomore outing just in time for her standing O. It wasn’t hard to see where that came from, once we caught up with runway footage of the “Glamourous Gangster” collection.
















