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Fashion market editor Sarah Casselman on the top trends in spring accessories (including a swoon-worthy pair of golden-girl YSLs). Click to watch Sarah’s latest video.

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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?”

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}

By Sarah Casselman

Today at the tents people are talking about:

– The Toronto Star article about FDCC prez Robin Kay’s rather, er, foggy moment – Sore feet – The K-Swiss shoes in the Evan Biddel gift bag- Which after party to hit (The answer? Joe Fresh Style at Fashion House)

On with the shows…

{FASHION WEEK SPRING 2009 TORONTO}

By Sarah Nicole Prickett

Let’s start at the end: when Jason Meyers closed out his Spring 2009 collection with a wedding dress in bright white silk the rest of the show suddenly made sense.