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Selling out is déclassé among art types, until it comes to fundraisers. And a whole week before Power Ball 12, the city’s wildest (read: only wild) art party was most emphatically sold out. Which meant everyone wanted to be there last Thursday night. Which, in turn, made the night feel like the sum of all Fears of Missing Out (FOMO).

As a follow-up to last week’s shopping post, we’ve rounded up some great spring pieces to freshen up your look. Click the images below to read about our picks Ashleigh Dempster and Amanda Blakley are the co-founders of The Society Global, a social club with chapters in Toronto, New York and L.A. (and coming this […]

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Now that we’ve had a chance to mull over the happenings of Toronto Fashion Week (and the two weeks plus of pre-fweek presentations), we’ve whittled down our favourite moments from fall shows. Click the images below to see our picks, and catch up on all our coverage at fashionmagazine.com/attheshows To see the full collection, click […]

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One of the most talk-about elements of the Greta Constantine show were the shattered-glass accessories, which also inspired the makeup look. M.A.C senior artist Melissa Gibson designed a “shattered lashes” effect that used four different lash styles cut into chunks and placed around the models’ eyes in random patterns. Says M.A.C senior artist Jane McKay, […]

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Down in the basement of a Toronto car dealership (Audi, specifically), Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong put on one of the strongest shows we’ve seen for their womenswear label, Greta Constantine (and her little menswear brother, Ezra). Simply put, it was a runway full of gorgeous, wearable clothes that women will want to wear. Ka-ching. […]

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Unless you are living in an episode of Gossip Girl, we’re willing to bet that there are too few masked balls on your social schedule. How lucky then that Greta Constantine, Shinan Govani and a handful of other Toronto cultural movers are hosting just such an event at the Burroughes Building on New Year’s Eve. […]

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Greta Constantine: Spring 2010 trunk show and personal appearance (November 20 and November 21, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor St. W., Toronto.).

Ashley Rowe: Up to 90 per cent off silk, leather dresses, pants and jackets at this invite only sample sale. (November 20, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., contact rsvp@ashleyrowe.com for location and invite).

Last night, Toronto’s fashion crowd gathered for the first official party of LG Fashion Week: the Holt Renfrew Media Cocktail. The bash is always a hot ticket, and in recent seasons, Holts has offered up a mini runway show to showcase the Canadian talent they’re featuring in their World Design Lab. This season, the group was, what the company’s VP of fashion direction, Barbara Atkin, referred to as “our own group of seven.” The presentation was a chance to take a peek at looks from designers who show in other cities, as with Jeremy Laing and Denis Gagnon, or who don’t do shows at all, as is the case with Mikhael Kale, Lida Baday and Smythe. Kale’s pieces were a space-age pastiche of skins, prints and fringe, while Baday showed a trio of simple, well-crafted pieces in black and white. And we never get tired of seeing what Denis Gagnon can do with leather. Also on the ticket were a handful of looks from Greta Constantine, who showed their full collection last week, and Pink Tartan, who’s up tomorrow night.

Check out the gallery of looks after the jump.

We hit the Greta Constantine Spring 2010 collection and chatted to designers Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill about inspirations and their foray into menswear. See galleries of the Greta Constantine and Ezra Constantine collections. More videos from Toronto Fashion Week.

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Greta Constantine designers Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong debuted their menswear line, Ezra Constantine, in Toronto last night, showing in tandem with their womenswear collection. Click the images below to see a gallery of the collection. Check out all of FASHION’s coverage of LG Fashion Week.

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Last night’s Greta Constantine show at the Audi dealership on Bayview Ave. was more like a party that held a fashion show during intermission. The chock-a-block crowd flowed from cocktails to catwalk to cocktails again. The presentation itself was held in a huge concrete space, providing a miles-long runway for designers Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill’s Spring 2010 showcase, which also marked the runway debut of their menswear line, Ezra Constantine.

Review and gallery after the jump.

Discretely tucked above a Queen Street West shop, Canada’s Red Bull offices held an intimate concert by larger-than-life performers Fritz Helder & The Phantoms. The crowd toasted the weekend and waited for the Toronto outfit to take the stage, taking in designs from Greta Constantine, Jeremy Laing, Nada, Oligarchy, Pink Cobra, Evan Biddell, Label, Franke for Chasse Gardée, Jaime Galindo and Hoi Bo, all of which were to be auctioned off to benefit Fashion Cares and ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto).