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It's Thursday night at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District for [FAT], the alternative fashion, music, and art week, and there's a hint of familiarity to it—and it's not because it's our third day of covering the event. No, instead, we're sensing the ghost of Buy Design, the fundraiser for Windfall that happened on Saturday in the same space.

Remember that time when you went to Toronto’s Alternative Arts & Fashion Week [FAT], got distracted by shiny things on the Fermenting Cellar’s floor, cupped a clammy hand over your mouth when a bare-breasted model flapped her way along the catwalk, cracked too many [FAT] jokes to too many people you didn’t know, and ultimately gave up all hope of ever becoming a fashion industry insider? No? Well, there’s no time like the present time for a vicarious trip down memory lane.

Fashion weeks are supposed to be about the who's who, but the unintended brilliance of FAT—Toronto's annual Alternative Arts and Fashion Week—is that you really can't tell. Designers, models, artists, hairdressers, musicians, bloggers? They all mix and commingle, sharing everything from taste in tattoos to pieces of pizza ("Don't forget to throw it up after!" says the flamboyant showrunner, relishing his made-for-reality-television role).

TTC workers may opt for a work-to-rule or slowdown campaign rather than an out-and-out strike—moves which could include actions such as refusing to collect fares, adhering to rules of the road, and not wearing uniforms. Union President Bob Kinnear's comments indicate that they'd prefer the less drastic action so as not to antagonize the public. Hmmmm, let's see...empty pier...tearful relatives waving goodbye from the wharf...yep, sorry, Bob, that ship has definitely sailed.