In the Royal Winter Fair that is L'Oréal Fashion Week, modelling agents are trotting out their prize livestock in the hopes of grabbing the attention of fashion editors, retailers and ... you.

Once the ugly stepsister of fashion events, Toronto's fashion week now attracts some of the most "important" models who have walked for Calvin Klein, Prada, Louis Vuitton and other trend-setting brands. Whether or not the clothes are world-class, the models showing them off are.

And, doing runway, even here, can mean lucrative ad campaigns and prestigious editorial work if a model can manage to catch the eye of the right creative director or fashion editor.