Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week is your best bet for connecting with up-and-coming designers who fuse art & fashion on the rowdiest runway around.

Our FAT calendar previews the must-see shows with insider hints from style’s next wave.

Designer Deadly Nightshades (deadlynightshades.ca)

THE COLLECTION: NOW’s eco fashion faves peddle locally produced, organic streetwear that’s progressive and punk.

SHOWTIME: 8:45 pm. The eight-member crew model their own collection, wearing custom recycled skateboard jewellery by 2ReVert (2revert.com).

WHERE TO GET IT: Watch the Deadly Nightshades website for info on a post-FAT trunk show. 

Designer Elizaveta Yankelovich, aka Kameleon (elizavetaakakameleon.com) 

THE COLLECTION: Yankelovich translates her extreme jewellery made from found hair rollers, doll heads and other trinkets into equally playful clothing and accessories.

SHOWTIME: 10:30 pm. “My show is going to make you feel like a teenager running through a field of dandelions with the sunset glowing pink behind you.”

WHERE TO GET IT: Visit Kameleon’s Etsy shop (elizaveta.etsy.com). 

Designer Too Hot Too Wet Too Dangerous by Karey Shinn (kareyshinn.com)

THE COLLECTION: Climate change crusader Shinn’s collection includes a bulletproof bikini, flood-friendly raincoats and sheer hazmat coveralls.

SHOWTIME: 10:30 pm. Dressed up hip-hop, break and modern dancers move to beat boxer Joe Law.

WHERE TO GET IT:  Email Karey@shinntype.com. 

DON’T MISS:

TorontoStreetFashion.com fashionisto-about-town Daniel Wilson spinning between shows, and pix by photographically gifted celebrity offspring Caitlin Cronenberg.