Well hello dears.

It’s that time again when Toronto fashion fanatics wait with breathless anticipation for what will be going down the runway. If the indications from Paris, London, and Milan are any indication my pre season comments are, “prepare to shop.” Last week I raved about Lady Gaga’s Mugler music with the video installation featuring tattooed zombie performance artist, Rico G! Now you’ve got to see the collection yourself.

Designer Nicola Formichetti has done a jaw-dropping, risky yet gorgeously avant-garde collection based on the idea of a Mugler monster (which Rico G is the face of). Not only this…OK, OK, I’ll stop going on about it. See the Mugler collection for yourself and don’t say I didn’t warn you.

So enough about European menswear, for now! LG Fashion Week starts Monday, March 28^th with the kick-off show being Holt Renfrew’s Can’t Live Without Canadian Fashion then right after Izzy Camilleri and Adrian Mainella team up to present IZMA’s Fall/Winter 2011. Though what many people don’t know is the fun starts this Monday, March 21^st with Philip Sparks show, which I will be attending with the ever fabulous Shaun Proulx, followed by the huge popular Greta and Ezra Constantine presentation on Friday, March 28^th at an Audi dealership. The pre LG Fashion Week shows are signal style is coming.

So what to attend during LG Fashion Week? Remember if you are not registered and thumb-printed media you are considered a consumer which means you get the cattle seats at the shows. But if you don’t mind and just want witness all the mayhem here are the “must see” shows:

Tuesday, March 28^th

Joe Fresh at 8:30 p.m.

Bustle at: 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 31^st

Rudsak at: 6 p.m.

Friday, April 1^st.

Klaxton Howl at: 6 p.m.

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Last season Rudsak (http://www.rudsak.com) paid homage to the jet set life of the 60s and exchanged sex for, well a more conservative look. The Spring 10 collection, which most gay men salivate over, frankly left them a little disinterested. I was invited backstage to meet he designer Evik Asatoorian. In my “bull in a china shop” style of fashion journalism I asked, “Evik where the sex?” A little taken aback be blinked and asked, “what do you mean?” I explained, “Evik Rudsak is known for their extremely sexy menswear, so where the sex?” He explained that Spring  10 was a more conservative look for men and he wanted more style or sex. For Fall 10 the  sex is back at Rudsak.

Sitting at the Rudsak show I was a little more skeptical than usual. Frankly I wanted to see hot sex go down the runway. From the minute the lights went down and the runway was ablaze, I wasn’t disappointed. The sex came back big time and went off to war. Taking from the military theme at many of the Toronto collections, Asatoorian brought back the sex with three-quarter length belted coats, hot leather and fabric pants with the leather in the inseam, military hats and boots. In short, it was freakin’ sexy.

After the show, I went backstage and bowed in Asatoorian’s presence. In a media scrum people RAVED about collection. When it came my turn to meet with him I gave him a hug and congratulated him on a job well done. I asked him what brought the sex back? In short he replied, Montreal gay men. They have been working the military look since December and Asatoorian spun it in his own unique way. If you want to new spin on military you should be heading into the Rudsak boutique on Queen Street West around August 2010.

A taste of Rudsak Fall 10

Rudsak's Evik Asatoorian