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There was a strange moment yesterday at the Tuileries when a crowd of several dozen photographers made their way towards the big white show tent for the Christian Dior Spring 2011 show.

The tightly-packed group seemed to glide across the gravel like a swarm of bees. Their cameras were held aloft, but the person at the centre of the pack was totally obscured by beefcake bodyguards.

Who could draw such a fuss? Yves Saint Laurent back from the dead?

The Sex and the City 2 extended trailer is out, and the clothes have never looked better. Well done Patricia Field, well done! [Grazia UK] Malcolm McLaren, the manager of the Sex Pistols and also known as the “godfather of punk,” passed away yesterday after battling cancer. The father to Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corré […]

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Designer Amanda Wakeley and milliner Stephen Jones were honored by the Queen with an Order of the British Empire (OBE). Luella Bartley received an MBE. We’ll leave it up to you and Wikipedia to parse the difference between those two. [Grazia]

In yet more awarding news, Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation has named their 2010 winners, including red-carpet up-and-comer Prabal Gurung and new name on the tailoring block Joseph Altuzarra. The honour comes with a US$25,000 prize to go toward the designers’ Fall 2010 presentation. [WWD]

To play the official sport of Paris Fashion Week—people watching!—you have to find the right arena. Friday was tricky. Dior at the Tuileries: too rich. Vivienne Westwood: too London. Maison Martin Margiela: too exclusive—the location of our invite was, like most things about Margiela, a mystery. So to find the girls who made Left Bank a synonym for “just right,” I went to their patroness, Isabel Marant: too perfect! Really, I thought it would never end, the stream of chicer-than-thou girls and garconnes—all with leather jackets and lethal heels, mixing metals and chiffons, letting python bags and uncoiled manes swing. Watching, I wished suddenly for a break with such good taste. For someone, anyone, to commit some breathtaking faux pas.