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This weekend, the Ex is once again hosting Toronto's popular Clothing Show, the retail sales event offering "the unique, the unusual, and the handcrafted" to the citizenry.

Exhibition Place has presented many new technologies since it was established in 1904, but a new pilot project outside the Automotive Building is using 40-year-old technology to lessen Toronto's energy impact: LED streetlights.

When the half of the moon not illuminated by the sun faces the Earth, the moon is dubbed a "new moon." The Lunar New Year -- more commonly known as the Chinese New Year -- is on the first New Moon of the Gregorian calendar. In 2007, Lunar New Year's Day is on February 18, the first day of year 4705 according to the ancient Chinese calendar. It will also be the year of the Pig!

It must have been the thrall of consumerism that prevented Torontoist from shouting from the rooftops sooner, to tell all new Spring fashion seekers and thrifty consumers that it is once again that time to congregrate upon the grounds of the Automotive Building at Exhibition Place for this season's installment of The Clothing Show. Taking place this weekend from 11am to 8pm on Saturday and 11am to 6pm on Sunday, the show will feature an unimaginable array of home-grown designers hoping to catch your eye in the hopes that you'll pluck down a couple of bucks for their wares, and speaking from past experience, shoppers can get quite a lot for not that much. Shoppers can achieve any look with designers that range from boutique, streetwear, vintage and a dizzying range of accessories. This faction of Torontoist has already begun to salivate and if anyone needs us, they know where to find us.

A sneak peek this morning yielded Torontoist's OOAK pick of the day: indie micro-label Fauna [Booth O36] by Montreal's Alexis Walker, who features purses, totes and clutches sewn from bright, textural vintage fabrics, and these lovely tailored shrunken (and reversible) Empire bolero jackets with puffed Juliet sleeves ($225).