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Brightly coloured sphere and rhombus shapes exploded onto the runway of LG Fashion Week as sibling design duo Alia and Jamil Juma presented their Fall/Winter 2011 Kaleidoscope collection.

Parading a plethora of prints, the collection included breezy tunics, pleated pants, tailored jackets, full-piece jumpers, and, most noticeably, a body-hugging dress affixed with a cloak-like hood in an undeniably acid tripping print.

With mainstay blacks and androgynous underpinnings, the most succinct way to describe the collection is hippie grunge colliding into the psychedelic 70’s. Overall, it was another successful collection for the Canadian designers who are slowly but surely taking the fashion world by storm.

Find out more about Juma at www.jumastudio.com

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Feminine, earthy, and romantic! Vancouver fashion designer Angela Chen studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York before launching her collection, Orange by Angela Chen, in 2007. Just off the LG Fashion Week runway, the Spring 2011 collection is the most defined one yet.

Inspired by the romantic movie, The Blue Lagoon, the shades of light blue, dove grey, white, and black flowing dresses are perfect for a warm breeze on a Tahitian beach (or just about anywhere).

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Spotted on celebrities like Tori Spelling, Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Garner, the label Line is making a name for itself. John Muscat and Jennifer Wells, the creative forces behind the Parisian brand, recently showed off their Spring 2011 collection at Toronto’s LG Fashion Week.

I loved the barely there tops mixed with the neutral palette and some of the pretty draping and dresses but wasn’t fond of the actual knits. It reminded me of something my grandma might have knit up. Not exactly my cup of tea.

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Former Bay Street lawyers Shawna Hewson and Ruth Promislow turned in their litigious lives in 2002 to start Bustle (bustleclothing.com) and we’ve had our eyes on them ever since.

Showing on the first night of LG Fashion Week in Toronto, it was clear that rock was on the runway with a collection fusing Mad Men with prints and pastels. The dress shirts rocked – lots of unusual prints, stripes, checks, and light colours like pink and powder blue.

Not on our favourite list was the boxy shape of some of the blazers and the over styling of excessively busy prints, even if they were in the same colour scheme – sometimes less is more.

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Holt Renfrew was represented at LG Fashion Week, featuring Canadian designers like Jeremy Laing, Lida Baday, Smythe, Pink Tartan, Denis Gagnon, and Wayne Clark.

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The beautiful AGO was the setting for the first Spring/Summer show at Toronto’s LG Fashion Week, featuring Project Runway winner Sunny Fong’s Vawk collection, titled Tattoo Hibiscus.

From silk Polynesian dresses in stunning yellow and orange colours to fringes and cut-out leaf textures, the small yet refined collection takes the wearer on a voyage to French Polynesia. Apropos given Vawk was inspired by the 1935 Oscar winning film starring Clark Gable, Mutiny on the Bound. We love the feminine recreation of the Captain’s coat. It’s pure genius.