I didn’t make it to the tents for day five of LG Fashion Week. After four days of back-to-back travelling, writing and analyzing designers' S2010 collections my brain was full and my body was calling for rest.

Therefore, for your reading pleasure, here is a roundup of articles by fashion editors and journalists reviewing LG Fashion Week:

• Inside Flare: Advice For New Designers On Maximizing Their Impact On The Runway by Lisa Tant, editor-in-chief of FLARE magazine
• Why so many runway runaways? by David Livingstone, The Toronto Star
• All this party needs is a few more A-listers by David Graham, fashion editor of The Toronto Star
• LG Fashion Week: vogue • cab • u • lary by Nathalie Atkinson, National Post
• LG Fashion Week report #7: St. Lucian by Sarah Nicole Prickett, Eyeweekly.com
• Toronto Fashion Week Spring/Summer ‘10: Checklist by TC, Corduroymagazine.com

Photo by Tommy Ton of Jak & Jil.

             

Wednesday was a busy day for me but one of the highlights was meeting Scott Schuman, The Sartorialist at Holt Renfrew.

Days leading up to the event Toronto’s fashion literati were tweeting and blogging about Schuman’s appearance; how big the crowd would be, the long line ups to meet him, and the type of outfits (and attitudes) to be seen. Nathalie Atkinson, the National Post’s resident style columnist wrote an amusing article about this called Sartorializing Toronto.

Surprisingly on the day of the event there was a mid-size crowd with approximately 50 to 70 people gathered in the menswear section of Holt’s. Most attendees were able to have a brief word and take a picture with Schuman – yours truly included. He’s a very personable gentleman, a great conversationalist, and managed to put his admirers at ease. You could tell he is passionate about his work and was genuinely interested in meeting his faithful readers and learning a little bit about their lives. In addition, he carried a copy of his upcoming book The Sartorialist which will be released on August 18, 2009. You can pre-order it through Chapters.Indigo.ca or Amazon.com.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the event especially if you saw Scott Schuman at The Drake after party – I heard it was quite a scene with all the people!

N.B: I had two meetings on Wednesday and therefore went with the business look; grey pants from H&M, shirt from Club Monaco, Longchamp tote, and shoes from Japan – simple and clean.

(Images from Kimberly’s camera)