When Fashion Escapes the Runway: FAT’s Offsite Locations Redefine Toronto Style

This November, Fashion Art Toronto is rewriting the rules again — this time by taking the runway underground, uptown, and everywhere in between. For Fall/Winter 2025, FAT introduces Offsite Locations: immersive fashion experiences staged across the city, turning unexpected spaces into living art installations. It’s fashion that doesn’t just walk — it wanders.

Monday, November 10 — Suburban Deviant: Angels and Deviants

The week opens with chaos and couture colliding. Suburban Deviant’s “Angels and Deviants” transforms the underground parking lot at Woodside Square in Scarborough into a surreal suburban paradise, complete with AstroTurf lawns, parade props, and oversized toys. From 7–11 PM, guests can expect a night that feels like a fever dream: sculptural fashion, DJs, and living art all erupting in one of Toronto’s wildest fashion parties yet.

Tuesday, November 11 — Style Lounge at Le Germain Hotel

Day two slows down the tempo and turns up the elegance. At Le Germain Hotel, Toronto’s creative class will sip, mingle, and shop designs from some of the city’s most distinctive creators. From 12–8 PM, guests can preview or rent local looks inside the hotel’s VIP suite, a stylish mix of retail therapy and runway preview wrapped in five-star luxury.

Wednesday, November 13 — House of Hendo at Anthropologie

Midweek, House of Hendo takes over the former Anthropologie space on Queen West, transforming it into an evocative runway performance that celebrates renewal and reinvention. The collection reimagines discarded fabrics into expressive, sculptural forms, a powerful commentary on sustainability and artistry. From 7–11 PM, expect fashion to breathe, move, and tell its own story.

A City Turned Runway

From Scarborough’s concrete underbelly to hotel suites and reclaimed retail spaces, FAT’s Offsite Locations are pushing fashion out of its comfort zone and into the city itself. Each venue becomes a statement, that Toronto’s creativity doesn’t belong behind closed doors, it belongs in motion, in community, in conversation.

I’m genuinely excited to see how this unfolds, and to experience each of these spaces as they come to life. Tune in, stay curious, and check out all of FAT’s Offsite Locations this season. Toronto’s fashion scene has never felt more alive.

— Written by Lestine Pasion for Veil Volumes