Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Intercontinental Hotel
Foreign Press Welcome

[L to R: Isabelle Randez (L'Oréal Canada); Celine Lis (Marie Claire France);
Claudine Hesse (Madame Figaro); Karmen Cheng (Faze Media)]

L'Oréal Fashion Week 2008 welcomed the foreign media on Sunday, March 16th 2008 at the downtown Intercontinental Hotel. In attendance were media and industry icons all the way from the United Kingdom to France, Italy to Japan. The evening was filled with tons of yummy hors d'oeuvres, beverages, desserts, sushi (see below), and speakers from Toronto Tourism, the Italian Chamber of Commerce as well as the FDCC.

Karmen & Carolee pigging out at the sushi table and CAUGHT on CITY TV NEWS!

Toronto Tourism meets the Italian Chamber of Commerce meets the FDCC

Robin Kay, president of FDCC

 

DAY 1:
Monday, March 17th, 2008

HOLT RENFREW
Media Cocktail


To officially kick off Fall Fashion Week 2008, media, designers, and guests gathered at the flagship Holt Renfrew store on Bloor Street West to mingle, be seen and listen to opening speeches made by Caryn Lerner, Robin Kay, Elio Fiorrucci and a few others. Speeches were short and sweet and overall, welcoming. In attendance were a few members of the cast of Degrassi: The Next Generation, MTV Canada Icons, Nada Shepherd of NADA, and much more...

Robin Kay addressing the media

!!!Look what the Faze Team found!!!
The gals from Degrassi: The Next Generation
(L-R): Charlotte Arnold, Paula Brancati, Shenae Grimes

Carolee Custus, Karmen Cheng, Nada Shepherd (NADA)	Karmen Cheng stops for a chat and a pic with ET Canada producer, Natalie Deane
Toronto Fashion Hero Sonja Andic, Toronto Street Fashion Publisher Rachel Schwab, and Faze's Carolee Custus stop for a pose.	The ladies from Travel Alberta: Taryn and Hilary

Left: Faze's one-time "RANT!" contributer and MTV Canada Girl, Jesse Cruickshank with Faze's Karmen Cheng Above: Apparently the first pic was too normal and at the advice of Paul, Jesse did some weird funky pose...

NATHAN PHILLIPS TENTS
Joe Fresh

After the Holt Renfrew media cocktail party, guests moseyed on down to the tents to see the highly anticipated show, Joe Fresh Style. Designed by Joe Mimran, Joe Fresh has a reputation for simple yet fun clothing at affordable prices.

A few Faze Friends that we bumped into at Fashion Week...

Miss Universe runner-up and former Faze Intern, Ashley Ebner catches up with Carolee Custus	We see these gals at every fashion week: Sacha Columbia & Tiffany Aita, Ryerson Fashion Students. HI GIRLS!!!
(L to R) Faze friend, Super Seamstress and Fashion Student Rina, and Super Blogger Anita Clarke	Jian Ghomeshi, Karmen Cheng

L'Oréal's Director of Communications Anik Gagnon
with Carolee and Karmen

THE AFTER PARTIES
C Lounge and Ultra Supper Club

Apparently the shows and media cocktail party were not enough for the Faze Team as they frolicked over to the official after party of Fashion Week at C Lounge featuring the sounds of DJ Samantha Ronson.

After a while, the Faze Crew needed a change of scenery and decided to head over to Ultra Supper Club where they watched the Lacoste Fashion Show and danced the night away...

This is how much fun we had at Day 1 of
L'Oréal Fashion Week Fall 2008.
Please note how SMALL the picture is. Nobody wants to see
Karmen, Selina, and Carolee posing like clowns!

DAYS 2-4:
March 18th - 20th, 2008

Remember the picture @ Holt Renfrew with Carolee, Karmen and Nada Shepherd? This was NADA's show...such pretty designs :)

The Fab Jewellery Gals: Above: @ the Melissa Clemente Designs booth with Karmen, Jenny Kim, and Melissa Clemente Right: @ the Susie Love booth with the lovely Susie Love herself along with Carolee

Faze's Graphic Design intern, Caitlin Gauthier with one of
Project Runway Canada's finalists, Carlie Wong.
Photograph taken by Corinna Matteliano

:Hibebe by Salem Moussallem Fashion Show offsite @ Cheval::

The designer himself, Salem Moussallam with a few pieces from his Fall 2008 Collection, shown below

Faze's Karmen with Glen Baxter, co-host of Fashion Television trying to pose for a picture before Glen dashed off to conduct a series of interviews...so what did Karmen end up doing?

CLEARLY we were not ready for this shot...

Shot #539781

The only logical thing! She ended up finding a jewellery designer, a stylist and a Toronto Street Fashion blogger to watch the GSUS show:

(L-R): Susie Love, Karmen Cheng, Carolee Custus, Tiffany Ing

:DUSSAULT MOTEL by Jason Dussault @ Century Room::

	In attendance included friends and family of Jason Dussault (top left), hip hop recording artist JDiggz (left), recording artist Cory Lee, Prevail of Swollen Members (above) and many more...

The last picture taken on the last day of L'Oréal Fashion Week Fall 2008:

Super stylist Sarah-Jay chowing down on a cheddar baguette. Don't worry, our Carolee got her hands on food as well. Why do you think she's grinning like that? lol

And so concludes our Fashion Week journey.

Til next season...