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Designer discounts

Fashion week(s) is here! Tomorrow’s style section is devoted to preview profiles of some of the runway’s newest faces so we’ve bumped our Style Notes column online for another week.

Budget bags

Need a new bag for fashion week? Wear Canadian with a Jessica Jensen purse picked up from the line’s annual sample sale starting Thursday (March 24). All handbags and small leather goods are up to 80 per cent off at the designer’s Burroughes Building studio (639 Queen West, suite 404) until Saturday (March 26). Cash, debit, Visa and Mastercard are all accepted.

Fabric fair

The 21st annual Toronto Vintage Clothing and Textile Show takes place this Saturday (March 26) at the CNIB Centre (1929 Bayview) between 10 am and 5 pm. Look for vintage wears, handbags, jewellery and designer buys plus quilts, linen, lace and other retro findings. Admission is $8.

Rodarte at Holts

Holt Renfrew has snagged Rodarte’s coveted collaboration collection with Opening Ceremony for its Yorkville flagship (50 Bloor West, 416-922-2333, holtrenfrew.com). Women’s pieces, shoes and handbags all arrive on Monday (March 28) in the World Design Lab on the department store’s second level. In other Opening Ceremony collaboration news, the Drake General store (82A Bathurst, 416-703-6518 and others, drakegeneralstore.ca) is launching OC’s Levi’s line later this week.

Runway wrap up

The last show of Toronto’s Fall 2011 season is Line Knitwear on the evening of April 1 but March’s fashion weeks aren’t officially over until the It’s A Wrap event on April 2. The F-List‘s Leesa Butler moderates a free panel discussion in the Drake Hotel’s (1150 Queen West) Underground between 3 pm and 4 pm. Catwalk know-it-alls including yours truly and Fashion Design Council of Canada designer coordinator Kate Mullin debate the style pros, cons, hits and misses of the past month.

Fashion week on NOW Daily

Our online fashion week coverage starts Monday with designer previews, daily show galleries and MyStyle snaps.

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