At LG Fashion Week, a few new young designers made admirable efforts and stylish stalwarts received their regular reviews, but the only designer that really got people talking was Denis Gagnon.

After homegrown Canadian designers presented their spring wares independently last week, LG Fashion Week officially launched last night. Luckily, there are four more days for the industry to collectively redeem itself.

Gorgeous, opinionated and wise beyond her years, plus-size model Crystal Renn is shaking some sense into the fashion industry and showing everyone that bigger is indeed beautiful.

Effervescent young designer Jessica Biffi is fresh off Project Runway Canada and already designing three different lines for stylish women of all shapes and sizes.

Fashion insiders and online voices are fixated on Canadian design stars who have no intention of staying at home -- because they can't survive without wooing the rest of the world.

There is something so, how else to put this, Canadian about the most popular show of Toronto's LG Fashion Week consisting of clothes that rarely cost more than $100 and are available at the nation's largest grocery store chain.