An LG Fashion Week Photo Diary

 

Camera at the ready, fingers steady, I hit up Toronto's LG Fashion Week - my 3rd but the city's 25th!

 

The tents at David Pecaut Square:  where most of the Spring collections were shown this year.

Front-row fixture (and attention-seeker extraordinaire), Stacey McKenzie, rocks striped leggings at the Joe Fresh show. 

The lowly ponytail goes high-end on the Spring 2012 runways. 

Backstage at Korhani Home.  See?  Models - They're Just Like Us. 

Or not...

A model takes on the challenge of making a rug look like couture while carrying a live bunny.  Props. 

Ever wondered what a model sees at the end of the runway?  Usually, it looks a whole lot like this. 

My line sheet and name tag at the ATTITUDE Jay Manuel show 

Fuzzy Hat Girl faces off against Chick with Big Rings in a Street Style Face-off.  Tough Call.  I choose Chick with Big Rings because I really don't like fuzzy hats.

A L'Oréal Paris makeup artiste perfects a model's look backstage at Pink Tartan.  Blazer with a capital 'B' and that rhymes with 'C' and that stands for Cool. 

 

'Don't mess wit my bags.  No.  Seriously.  Don't mess wit my bags.'

I had a fantastic time at Toronto's LG Fashion Week Spring 2012 shows and left feeling inspired, (and a little tired) but super excited to be a Canadian.   Homegrown designers rocked this year's runways with looks that were anything but shy and retiring.  Joe Fresh, Attitude Jay Manuel and Pink Tartan put on amazing shows (as always) but the small designers with the smaller budgets were equally, if not more, impressive.  As fluffy as it seems, the fashion business is indisputably tough but these amazing talents continually strive to perfect their art to create beautiful clothing.  For the hits (and misses), the trends I saw everyone wearing, the sites that editors can't live without and reasons to get excited for spring, read on here

I promised to post these pics last week but I just couldn't keep up with time.  Mea culpa :(  To make it up to you, I'm giving away loads of treats that I picked up throughout the week including makeup from L'Oréal and Nip + Fab, Hair products from Pantene, accessories from Jay Manuel and Joe Fresh and more. 

To win my care package of fun, tell me your favourite Canadian designer by commenting below or on the Real Life Runway facebook page.  Simple!  I'll draw the lucky winner this Friday.   Off to cure a serious chocolate hangover.  A Kit Kat should do the trick, non?