FASHION Magazine

Much-loved style blogger/photographer/model Hanneli Mustaparta (hanneli.com) makes a top by Montreal’s Complex Geometries (lent by Mr. Tommy Ton) look like a snap.

Check out the full look after the jump.

It was high day for belles of the Bals: Balenciaga and Balmain, competing bold shoulder-to-shoulder for the minds and hearts of international editrixes… and Rihanna, who cast her vote of attendance for the latter. More importantly, as Suzy Menkes reported, Christophe Decarnin won the thumb war: tweets about Balmain outnumbered those about Balenciaga, 75 to 41. I’m loathe to be a lemming here, but maybe I agree (and no, I’m not just bitter about not getting the golden ticket to Ghesquière’s show. I still love). Sure, Decarnin is de trop, but the Mad Maxines storming down his runway are indeed a force to be reckoned with.

Anne Valérie Hash, one of my favourite French designers (and forever the next Big One), is about to present Paris Fashion Week’s first really-must-see collection, and I am dreaming. No, literally. I’m in my big white hotel bed, nested in sheets, dreaming of bunny rabbits with blue nail polish on.

At 7:30 a.m. home-time, my body screams for caffeine and I awake to panic. My first thought is unprintable. My second is: oh no, Paris has probably eaten all its croissants already!