As we all know Toronto is home to many a "street style"  model and budding designers. This is a city that is devoted to style, and FAT celebrates that! This year's line up featured a bevy of talented local and international designers. The shows offer them a chance to show off their goods to fashion bloggers/store buyers and the like, vying for an opportunity to be transported to Marc Jacobs status. Click here to see the 2011 FAT-Schedule Some of my personal favourites were (in no particular order): ICA Watermelon - madly delicious knitwear. Thick headbands, knit strapless...

I really don't understand the hatred felt towards Valentine's day. I thought we were over the whole 1973 celebrating Christmas in October because then it won't be commercialized anger towards the man schtik. To me Valentine's is a mid-winter pick me up that gives the world permission to gorge themselves on chocolate, unnecessarily rich food and champagne. Obviously, like any woman, I'd rather be surprised with a bouquet of daisies out of no where, but I try not to expect these things from a boyfriend on a student budget.  Men on the other hand, hate Valentine's day because not only...

After weeks of unlimited indulgence, my own turkey neck is wobbling a bit more than I'd like to admit. Numerous times we hear someone sharing that they can have whiskey in their morning coffee or 4 pieces of pie followed by the explanation "it's the holidays" - which really isn't much of an excuse. Whether your doing it because you actually make New Year's Resolutions or because the muffin top on your jeans belongs in Texas, lightening up your diet come January is usually a good decision. As any form of strict regimen gives me flashbacks of teen angst and...

Entertaining Under The Influence is a brand new, bi-weekly column by former intern and awesome cook/host, Lauren McGowan. the thing is, we can't cook. And we don't really live in fancy places where we can have dinner parties either. But, thankfully, neither does Lauren, and lucky for us, she is loaded with useful tips on how to whip up something delicious for cheap, and how to spruce up an informal gathering on even the shittiest student budget. Get a pen, you'll want to take notes.

Words and Photos By: Kim Cuachon-Haugh Moving down here has taught me that appearances may not be so important to some.  To be honest, most just don’t giving a rat’s ass what they look like and if they somewhat care their outfit is just a hot mess.  While I am willing to over look the heinous outfits, I cannot turn a blind eye on all the sloppily over-weight people who shamelessly provide t.m.i. (too much information).  Believe me, as a person who lives on the beach, I’m not wearing sunglasses just to keep my eyes protected from the sun, but...

Wikipedia Definition: Sunglasses or sun glasses are a form of protective eyewear designed primarily to prevent bright sunlight and high-energy visible light from damaging or discomforting the eyes. They can also function as a visual aid, as many glasses or "spectacles"  exist featuring coloured, polarized or darkened lenses. In the early 20th century they were also known as sun cheaters (cheaters being an American slang term for glasses). -Ray Ban Wayfarer: can neves go wrong

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Same old story. You do all the work and prep and Mr. Macho man gets to be caveman for a day and stand around with his stupid little tongs and his still warm PBR and take care of the serious business of grilling. Eff. That. Noise. Grab your spatula's ladies. Barbecue season doesn't have to be all beards, burgers, and beer. you can totally have a healthy girls night around the barbecue without the gristle. We made grilled tomato bruschetta, glazed salmon, and grilled peaches with sweet coconut cream. Grilling the tomatoes releases lycopene, a strong antioxidant.  Salmon is chockfull of...

Pop quiz: You're a young lady, at a hotel party, enjoying some beers. Ron Jeremy saunters up to you, grey-black mane dangling like a greasy mop at his shoulders...he caresses your little hand between his two beefy paws and requests, like a gentleman, if he can go down on you. What do you say? TOO LATE. He already made you explode like a chinese water fountain. Just from being there. Just with those two stoney eyes locked into your own, in those two seconds between "Hello" and "I'm Ron." How does he do it? Men have always wondered how this...

Creativity and artistry, beautifully intertwined, making love to one another with the pulse of the crowd’s “Oh’s and awh’s” cheers and applause, that was the synergy at Toronto Alternative Fashion Week.

I had the opportunity to mix with the visionaries of tomorrow, work backstage with a costume genius, and I got face to face with Toronto’s Nina Arsenault.

I must say that I was very excited to do this interview because of my personal love of vintage fashion. Like a blind date, Diepo and I met at a coffee house (it begins with “Star”). I ordered and peaked around the corner to check out the creative masterminds behind this line that I am anxious to see later this evening. There they were, Justine Diener and Kristin Poon, both sweetly dressed in let’s...

On the Eve of Alternative Fashion Week, the official count down has begun until the stilettos hit the catwalk. Alternative Fashion Week [FAT] is right around the corner, but FAT’s Michelle Reagan says, “It’s still surreal that it’s so close!”

FAT was launched by Vanja Vasic in 2005, and she seems like this fairy godmother to everyone who I have spoken to, so now I wait in bated breath to interview her post FAT (stay tuned)....