An invigorating collection of prints that will be sure to energize you with their colour and imagery through the long and unpredicatable Canandian winter. Lots of African motifs, fire, atom bomb clouds and in a gesture of wishful thinking perhaps, leopards, toucans, orchids and butterflies. There is something for everyone here.

The inspiration for David Dixon’s AW12 collection was Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds. The designer was inspired by his own fear of birds (species specific) and a love of actress Tipi Hedren to use this classic film as the theme. Daywear showed first then eveningwear. The later is where David Dixon really excels.

In Fellipe Garamano Barbosa's documentary  Laura, we are introduced to a modern-day Holly Golightly. She has no job and no apparent source of income save for mysterious money wires that she receives from Brazil. And yet inexplicably she is out every night socialising with celebrities and New York's.

Planet of Snail follows the lives of deaf-blind Korean poet Young-Chan and his wife Soon-ho, who suffers from a spinal disability. The title refers to the world of deaf-blind people who, like snails, have to tactilely find their way through the world. Young-Chan is an avid reader, he writes poetry.

We went to Peter Pan Bistro on a whim since we had some time to kill before a show. I should mention that I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Peter Pan Bistro or at least since I was a kid shopping with my mom on West Queen West. It is undeniably one of the last fixtures of this neighbourhood. A neighbourhood that is sadly fast resembling an outdoor extension of The Eaton Center.

I am rather partial to diners so I decided to finally try The Thompson Diner. My hesitation at attending a hotel restaurant was defeated by my curiosity over this lovely art deco building. The interior is as you would expect, that of a hotel restaurant meets a diner. This means that there is flocked wallpaper (the expensive kind),velvet brocade upholstery on the booths and the world's ugliest sports bar shoved into the middle.

A futuristic beauty pageant was the theme for the WallacePlayford show at |FAT| 2012 show with models entering via a spinning metal cage (see below) powered by two modish-spacemen. The looks were tongue-in-cheek retro mod with the familiar vintage bathing capes and lucite bangles but also more avant garde touches like the embellished pads worn on the foot, ankle, calf and knee and the matching embellished busts on certain garments.

One of the hallmarks of |FAT| is the performance art between runway shows and the runway shows themselves that very often blur the distinction between the two. It is a refreshing break from the conservatism of many of the shows at World Mastercard Toronto Fashion Week . The Haphazard show at |FAT| 2012 was the epitome of this with ballet, a hair sculpture, a giant wind-up doll and a final walk that consisted of a living graffiti wall:

Gattu is a young orphan living with his adoptive uncle who runs a scrap yard. He is bursting with energy and finds it difficult to stay out of trouble. In his defence, he is little more than a servant to his uncle and is afforded very little time to engage in children's activities. Gattu's uncle.

Andrew Shea's Portrait of Wally is the story of the last painting Egon Scheile painted of his lover and muse, Wally Neuzil, and what became of that painting after it was stolen by Nazi Freidrich Welz from gallery owner Lea Bondi Jaray's apartment. Jaray was Jewish and her gallery had already been.

Effortless cool in this all black SS12 collection from B.E. The garments were constructed of loose, flowing and light weight fabric. This sometimes had a peek-a-boo effect especially with the dresses, however the wearer could resolve this by layering over a tank top or blouse. I liked the elegant black pleated mid and maxi skirts and thought them usual items for SS but lovely and pragmatic ones nonetheless.

The Saniya Khan AW12 collection was characterized by sumptuous velvets in black, smoke, plum and burgundy, Embroidery in gold and silver thread, intricate beadwork and occasional fur accents. Enormous faux rubies gave the velvet pieces a mystical quality. There was a definite eastern influence but not specific to one country.

We spoke with Gaby Hoffmann (Crystal Fairy, Girls) about her role as the complicated heroine Laura in Goodbye World, post-apocalyptic life, Dorothy Day, watching Kid Cudi discover the joys of acting and her transition from child to adult actor. I don’t do much to prepare to be honest, it just hasn’t ever been a part of my approach.

I spoke with E.L. Katz on directing his first feature length film Cheap Thrills, what horrifies him in real life and how being a jack of all trades is the best training you can give yourself if you want to go into directing. How does it feel to make your debuted as a feature film director? I think where I’m sitting now it feels good.

12 O’Clock Boys is the stunning new documentary from Lotfy Nathan. He takes us past the clichéd Baltimore we know from shows such as The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street and into the surprisingly beautiful world of dirt bike riding. The 12 O’Clock Boys are a gang of dirt bike riders who got their name from their ability to ride whilst doing an almost perfectly vertical wheelie.