Toronto Fashion Week - Part Deux

Fashion week isn't just about what happens on the runways, it's how we capture and share it. Since the dawn of Twitter, live events are for the audience -- whether actually in attendance or not -- to offer their play by play. Now with Instagram and Vine, it's not just about what we say, but how we see it. I saw many use Vine  to record the final walks from designer shows in New York, London and Paris, so I put my own spin on it frequently last week. What else can you say in six seconds?

One of my favorite moments of the week was the Joe Fresh show. If you wouldn't have guessed in a million years that the fast fashion of Joe Fresh could be heavily influenced by the British impressario Malcolm McLaren, you don't know Joe Mimran. McLaren and his girlfriend Vivian Westwood were largely responsible for the punk style of youth in the 1970s. Joe went straight to Paris for punk (with a hint of jazz) in the form of a French ingenue, a stylish young thing who, channeling a young Carine Roitfeld, donned mostly black. He brought us art in the form of Ed Ruscha -- an artist known for painting words on large canvasses -- and his lettered sweaters that wrapped up the collection. And then he brought us the best after party of the week. That's Joe.

Photo by George Pimentel

Photo by George Pimentel

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I skipped out on Friday's shows due to commitments for Canadian Music Week (why, oh why does everything have to happen at the same time in Toronto?) but not before co-hosting FGI Toronto's Speed Networking event with Fashion Takes Action. This is the second season we've worked together with IMG to host the event during fashion week. Speed networking matches you up with someone new every two minutes, so if you're not good at conversation, you will learn quickly!  The event was sold-out, thanks to everyone who came out for it. Check out FGI on Facebook and Twitter for more upcoming events.

Ready, set, go!