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Fashion Design Council of Canada

Despite a growing number of offsite and off-week presentations, Toronto Fashion Week (October 18 to 23, Heritage Court, Exhibition Place, lgfashionweek.ca) keeps catwalking forward, and a new team at the Fashion Design Council of Canada is focusing the spring 2011 season’s evolution on the runway.

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Karamea designer Michelle Turpin has turned designer liaison. She and The Fashion Collective, made up of stylists Kate Mullin, Dwayne Kennedy and Brian A. Richards, are working with new entries like Jessica Jensen, Rita Liefhebber and Klaxon Howl to tailor the presentation format. As a result, collections will be shown in three different spaces from the massive, 1,000-seat runway room to a studio perfect for intimate shows.

Michelle Reagan, who’s worked PR for Catherine Malandrino in New York and wrangled media for Alternative Fashion Week, here has bravely accepted the task of getting the Fashion Week word out to Toronto’s fickle style press.

“We couldn’t grow without fresh talents,” says FDCC President Robin Kay. “The evolution of the runway and the calendar this season is a reflection of the range of talented designers that make up the fabric of our country.”

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