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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.

At five minutes to 10 p.m. tonight, we'll hear the following words: "Ladies and gentlemen. Please clear the runway and take your seats. The show is about to begin." And sure, those words might be in our heads, burned there by so many megaphone announcements in the tents. But we'll hear them and be a tiny bit more excited, even if none of it is real—just reality.

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist.

When we think of “fashion” and “reality”—well, of late, we’d rather not. It’s one thing on television, but on the shopping streets, the reality is something grimmer.

Photo by Arline Malakian. Courtesy of Lucian Matis.

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.