FASHION WEEK!!!!!

I have a friend named Christina. My friend Christina is lucky. Not the "hey I found a $10 bill on the ground" lucky. More like "I won a $1000 shopping spree at Gap" and "I won three tickets to Master Card World Fashion Week"
NO. KIDDING.
Fashion Week, in Toronto. With Girlfriends. It's like so very Sex and The City. Except I ain't Carrie, y'all!
As soon as I saw the tweet from Christina I called her. "Are you freaking kidding me?!?!?"
Apparently not, we were going to the first night of fashion week. Courtesy of Ceasarstone Canada! http://www.caesarstone.ca/en/Pages/default.aspx
Which, naturally is when the panic set in.
See, here's the thing Internet. Fashion does not come easily to me.
I can put an outfit together on a dummy in the store. No problem.
I can match accessories to outfits practically with my eyes closed.
But finding clothes to put on this body? Um.......yeah.
Here's the problem, Internet. I'm in between. I'm at the bottom end of plus sized and the top end of regular sized. Also, I lift people for a living and carry nephews whenever possible. So trying to find clothes to fit around my arms and shoulders is daunting. Now, I'm sure that there is a perfect website or store for these problems. So far I haven't found it.
So I get fashion anxiety. Just a little bit.
And apparently going to Fashion week makes this worse. I had no frame of reference. What does one wear?!?!
Panic.
I called my BFF for advice. She's been to fashion week, in Paris. She advised a simple black dress with some pop out colour and a great bag. Um...I don't have a GREAT bag for night. I have coach bags cause my sister loves me. But they're not night bags.
So my BFF lent me her Dior. SHUT UP!

So, I'm dressed, make up on, hair done, bag ready.
In the car with Christina and the always charming Kay.
On the 401, zooming to fashion week. Holt Renfrew! Pink Tartan! Pavoni!!!!!
Construction.
Late for Holt Renfrew.
 Don Valley Parking Lot.
Missing Holt Renfrew.
Skidding in to the Big Tent just as Holt Renfrew is about half way done.
Thankfully, John the rep for Caesarstone our sponsor is an amazing friendly man and was able to meet us and give us our passes. We were IN!

OMG!!!!!!
I was not the tallest woman in the room suddenly!!!
Booths by Mabelline, Essie, Caesarstone, the list goes on and and on!

Swag bags every time we turned around, filled with coupons and free samples and great magazines and catalogues.
The CaesarStone booth was particularly fantastic! Macaroons!!!!

On to the Pink Tartan Show! So exciting! Well dressed people milling about looking for their seats. I was struck by how friendly and polite they were. Not one rude glance in a crowded room full of people looking for their seats. Wow.

The Pink Tartan show was amazing. Lots of pale pink and pale mint green for Spring 2013. Pale mint is good. I'm not much of a pink girl. I couldn't get very many shots of the models, I was too busy gawking but here's one of the great looks!

http://pinktartan.com/

After Pink Tartan, a little break for frree wine samples, red or white and a free hot stone hand massage!!!! Wow! I could get used to this. Maybe I'll petition my boss for free hot stone hand massages at work!
On to the Pavoni Show.

I was totally amazed at how in just a 30 minute break the same runway could be transformed!
The show was everything it promised to be. Breathtaking dresses,

Crazy music, crowds of people

http://www.pavonicollection.com/home.html
Yards, and yards and yards of Tulle and I swear every bead in North America!
Too soon it was time to go home.
Totally tired.
Totally happy!
Thanks so much to Christina and Kay for inviting me and travelling with me! Thanks to Caesarstone for the tickets  and  thanks to MasterCard World Fashion week for the experience!