So Montreal Fashion ‘Week’ may have been more of a ‘Weekend,’ but we sure packed a lot into three little days and nights. Parties, after parties, pre-parties, cocktails, vernissages – plus a few fashion shows. As always, fashion week is a forecast for the future, a guide to the people who’ll be shaping your style in the months and years to come. Here are five fashion gurus we here at GURU Energy Drink are looking to in 2010.

1. Designer Simon Chang for being named to the Order of Canada for his charity work and success in the fashion business. Following in the footsteps of the top brands in the biz, from Ralph Lauren to Missoni, he recently launched a line of bedding and already has men’s and women’s fragrances bearing his name. He’s also designed hospital wear and flight attendant uniforms – now that’s range!

2 & 3. Photographer Marie-Reine Mattera for winning a Grand Prize for Fashion and Beauty Editorial. Also deserving credit for the fashion spread – a chic traipse through Chinatown – is prolific Montreal artistic director and stylist Denis Lemieux.

4. Singer / actor / jewelry designer Caroline Néron, for putting the show in showcase, sending models and dancers out in black leotards, hoop skirts, and carrying Chihuahuas (what would PETA say?).

5. Denis Gagnon, for bringing his style to the masses (finally). Very much a designer’s designer, he’s got a stud- and sequin-filled collaboration with Aldo coming out this spring (with help from stylist YSO), and is bringing his clean colors and draped fabrics to Bedo next fall.