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|FAT| Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week celebrates it’s fifth year
anniversary, staging a dynamic 5 day event at it’s new home within Studio City’s Film Studio Complex in Liberty Village.

As a platform for inventive, pioneering and contemporary expression, Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week features 200 national and international fashion designers, visual artists, bands and performers this year. The festival delivers a packed schedule of runway shows, live performances, music, photography, video screenings and installation exhibits to celebrate leaders in a wide range of art forms.

|FAT|’s runway showcase sets the standard for a new era of cutting edge presentations on the catwalk. From contemporary fashion to street wear, to experimental ideas and avant-garde collections, |FAT| features over 50 runway shows from the best emerging and established fashion designers. View collections from national designers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Windsor and Calgary as well as collections by international designers from Mexico, Jamaica, The Netherlands and the UK.
This year’s special presentation includes The Netherlands as an international country in focus.

The festival welcomes Dutch fashion designers Niki Men’s for Square Root of Two and menswear designer Hyun Yeu as part of the 2010 programming.
The fifth year anniversary edition of FAT titled “Made with Love” approaches fashion from the intelligence of the heart, surveying a different emotion each night.

More info - http://www.alternativefashionweek.com