This year I was invited to attend Montreal Fashion Week, along with Toronto's Janine Falcon from Beauty Geeks, as one of P&G Beauty's Super Blogeuses.

I love the Micalla show. Designer Camilla Jorgensen knows what a girl wants...namely, lots of bling, boys, and baked goods. Note to all designers: While a timely cookie may not sway my review, it certainly can't hurt to have the media on a giddy sugar rush while you show your collection. And what a collection!

It's not often that you see a girl go from geek to glam in less than 24-hours, but model / mechanical engineering student Stephanie Shaver regularly quick-changes from hitting the books to stomping the runway, like a female Clark Kent. She'd make the rest of us dull normals with no "/" in our job descriptions hate her, if she wasn't so darn nice.

Just as I am complaining about a lack of pizzazz on the runway, the designers came out and give me an eyeful. We've got just a bra at Dinh Ba, pasties at Cocolily and Bodybag by Jude, and lacy underpants at Bodybag by Jude.

Not to sound all jaded after three whole MFW seasons, but after a while the shows all start to look pretty similar. And at the start of Day 2 I was thinking that if I had to watch another full day of shows all about leggings and black and draping knits, I would really have to start channelling Andre Leon Talley to get me through ("There is a famine of beauty!").

Blogging and tweeting abounds at the 18th edition of Montreal Fashion Week. I even caught Montreal's own version of a wee Tavi furiously scribbling notes in the front row of every show. Tot blogging is the new black.

Last week I got fresh with Mr. Fresh, himself, Joe Mimram, while he was in Montreal to serve as honorary president of the Farha Foundation's Maskarade Ball.

'Twas the night before the Sonia Rykiel for H&M launch, and instead of camping in line, I got to join a group of other fashionista-media types as we scoured the collection for the best knitwear in Sonia's signature stripes.

For spring and summer Homesense is pulling a very chic role reversal, bringing the ouside in with bright floral fabrics, sunny pillows, and Mediterranean seascapes.

This week the lovelies at COVERGIRL (including the marvelous Marjorie Roux, smiling next to me) invited the fashionista set over to their offices to go back to the future with make-up artist Amélie Ducharme, as she recreated the decades using the latest products from the line (photo below left by Jimmy Hamelin).