This Week in Fashion rounds up the week's style news, store openings and closings, pop-up shops, sales and upcoming fashion and design events in Toronto. Find it here every Wednesday morning.

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Last week, The Drake General Store opened the doors to its new Yonge & Eglinton location (2607 Yonge St). The larger space carries odds and ends that make perfect gifts (for Mother's Day, perhaps?), including metallic piggy banks ($260) and ceramic sparrow mugs ($38). The well-known (and well adored) retailer now has three locations in distinct neighbourhoods, ready to offer quirky clothing and curiosities.

Fashion Art Toronto ("|FAT|") Arts & Fashion Week returned last week for its eighth annual edition, transforming an industrial warehouse into an energetic environment filled with all things avant-garde. Running from April 23 to 27, the event showcased 50 highly conceptual runway shows by both local and international designers. This year, the theme was Fashion Therapy — designers and artists were challenged to integrate into their work a connection between the human psyche and fashion.

Hundreds of looks swept and sashayed past me all week, all with a very different response to the theme. Though many of these don't fit under similar categories, here are my picks for the top 10 looks from |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week based on creativity and construction.

This Week in Fashion rounds up the week's style news, store openings and closings, pop-up shops, sales and upcoming fashion and design events in Toronto. Find it here every Wednesday morning.

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Next Monday (May 6), an exclusive t-shirt collection designed by Jeremy Laing with much-loved Toronto label Arts & Crafts is set to launch online and at two Toronto Hudson's Bay locations (44 Bloor St E and 176 Yonge St). Five artists - Derek Sullivan, Jessica Eaton, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Niall McClelland, and Jason McLean - created images inspired by musicians including Broken Social Scene and Timber Timbre, which were then translated into a printable design. Retailing for $75, the t-shirts' profits will be donated to MusiCounts, an organization dedicated to providing music programs to all children in Canada.

The top lingerie stores in Toronto go beyond the mass-market offerings at La Senza, Victoria's Secret and La Vie en Rose. True, these are popular lingerie stores for Canadian women but where in Toronto can you find boutiques with famous European brands like La Perla or local Canadian designers?

Here are my top 10 lingerie stores in Toronto.

With the weather finally starting to turn (goodbye winter jacket and gloves), it was time to hit the streets to spot some Spring styles. See if you can guess where the photos were taken.

View and rate all the looks in our Style section.

This month Toronto is celebrating the Shop Small program - a new movement focused on giving some thought to the importance of small, independent businesses and the vibrancy and culture they bring to our neighbourhoods. To mark the occasion, every Saturday morning this month we've been featuring some of our favourite small businesses in a different neighbourhood in Toronto. Today we take a look at some shops at Yorkville that really know how to make their clientele look good. Check out and support small businesses in your neighbourhood by pledging to #ShopSmall.

Long before West Queen West became the epicentre of boutique shopping in Toronto, Yorkville reigned supreme. It was where to go to buy that brand new suit, must-have handbag or coveted pair of shoes. Today, all of those things can still be found here but with an influx of small, independent boutiques the neighbourhood has re-established itself as a veritable shopping destination - even if it's a bit on the pricey side.