All week long, we’ve asked designer Katrina Tuttle to blog for us as she prepared her debut Toronto Fashion Week collection. Now that the show’s over, Tuttle tells us how it all went down:

Show day was a whirlwind of last minute things to be done. We madly loaded 20 garment bags, 30 boxes of shoes, and loads of jewellery into the back of the trunk. We all piled into our rental car, heading for the LG Fashion Week tents with the spring 2010 line. Once we arrived at our staging area, we pressed and steamed all of the line, organized the jewelry and patiently waited to be moved to backstage.

Before I knew it, the show was done and I breathed a huge sigh of relief! The models looked fantastic, the clothes looked great and it went off pretty well backstage. The whirlwind of body tape and yelling for models combined with the six months of prep work to get it here was all worth it! Most gratifying was walking out at the end and seeing a room full of people who came to see my show!

Through the chaos of the 10-minute dash backstage to get all the looks down the runway and the interviews following my debut, I can?’t say I remember a whole lot, as I was totally in the moment. I had a ton of great response after the show and tons of emails asking where the line will be carried – no worries, I am on it! I also had a couple of showings after my show that went very well.

The last couple days in Toronto before heading back to Halifax with my four huge bags of luggage were a mixture of exhaustion and excitement. Packing the line was a task in itself and I kept wondering how we ever got it here. Perhaps one of the most exciting elements of my trip to Toronto is that I left with a ton of new fabrics for the fall 2010 line! The concept? Well… you will have to wait and see! ?There has to be some suspense right?

- Katrina

(Photos by George Pimental)