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Winterlicious is back with 130 restaurants participating. For $15 or $20 for lunch and $25 or $35 for dinner, foodies get a three-course meal including appetizer, main, and dessert. Too bad most restaurants play it safe by offering the standard soup or salad, chicken or beef, and cake or ice cream. Although the food is rarely bad, boring food at nearly $50 a head (after taxes and gratuity) is pretty hard to swallow. Luckily, some chefs are treating Winterlicious like a couture show at Fashion Week and presenting innovative and clever fare.

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Toronto native Lucian Matis, 28, landed in second place behind Evan Biddell, a 24-year-old designer from Saskatoon, on the finale of Project Runway Canada last night. Matis, Biddell, and third-placer Marie Genevieve Cyr showed ten-piece collections at Toronto's L'Oréal Fashion Week in October as the final challenge of the reality show. The runway shows were performed in front of an audience and evaluated by the Runway judges: supermodel Iman, Elle Canada Editor Rita Silvan, and Bustle Clothing's Shawn Hewson.

Left: Lite-Brite satin at Nada Yousif; right: rainbow-striped dress, also Nada Yousif.

The closing look in the Stephen Trigueros collection.

corporate interference?

Photos by Sarah Prickett. Above: Vancouver's Ginch Gonch Underwear, first show.

L’Oréal Fashion Week officially ends today, but for all intents and purposes it's already over. While work commitments kept us from attending most events, we've been following news coverage keenly and have assembled the following recap.

L’Oréal Fashion Week kicked off this morning with an 11 a.m. press conference at Queen's Park. Seems the Ontario government excludes fashion from its definition of culture. So members of the Fashion Design Council of Canada want fashion visionaries to get the same recognition as their colleagues in art, dance, theatre and music. Clearly Toronto Fashion Week isn't the same kind of high-octane glamathon as Paris or Milan. In fact, most shows will be held in one venue—The Liberty Grand—so instead of rushing from venue to venue, most buyers and editors have to cool their heels in the hallway between collections.

Cover is $5 at the door. For more information, visit www.knowdresscode.com.

While another L’Oreal Fashion Week is coming to an end for high-tone fashonistas, average fashion civilians will want to check out tonight's final off-site show. From 7-10pm, at Clint Roenisch Gallery on Queen West it’s a preview of Lydia K. Designs’ spring line (which means you don’t have to wait 6 months for the collection to hit stores). Lydia Klenck studied textiles at way-cool NSCAD down East, and her handmade pieces are equal parts Frida Kahlo folk costume, Victorian revival and thoughtful textile art. Bonus: Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden’s dramatic drawings lining the walls.

Today marks the "100% Canadian Cool" beginning of L'Oreal Fashion Week. Sensibly titled Toronto Fashion Week last year, the fashion-forward event will include trend-setters such as Ula Zukowska, Beckerman, Jeanne Beker and Shinan Govani. Unfortunately for the non-industry types, it's mostly media/special guest/invite only events - like the screening of Fernando Meirelles produced Brasil documentary on Thursday. Introductory remarks by "his worship" David Miller, however, are open to the public. Read more of the sked. (Also, it's New Year's Day for Sikhs.)