Last night Canada’s top designers kicked off the 23rd season of Toronto’s LG Fashion Week with a superb showing of bright and eclectic pieces for spring/summer 2011.

Established in 1978, Fabiani has grown to become one of the leading menswear retailers in Southern Africa. Simply stated, passion, innovation and perfection are stitched into every Fabiani piece.

“The structured part of the uniform is very post-colonial,” the former Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe says of a schoolgirl kilt with sexy black and gold lace peaking out of the folds. The designer is behind the upstart Pilar label.

The film states that according to a 2008 survey, 87 per cent of New York Fashion Week models were white. “It gets to a point where you feel like you’re constantly justifying your worth,” says Thompson, in the film. “You can only take so much … constant rejection — or that fear that when you walk through that casting door, you’re going to be reminded, yet again, that you’re a Black girl.