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I suppose there could be worse jobs in the world than to have to start your day with a tour through the über-chic Roger Vivier showroom to get a sneak peek at fall’s treats. “Catherine” (as in Deneuve) asked Bruno (as in Frisoni, the Vivier designer) for a new ballet flat,” the PR rep tells me, “so he made her one!” (Hint: it has a pointy-toe with a slight platform). A deck of cards is the theme for the season, and I don’t want to give to much away, but I really heart it in spades.

Day two starts not with a bang, but with a “meh” at the Issey Miyake show. Designer Dai Fujiwara collaborated with karate masters to develop flexible fabrics for his latest offerings and the “katas” that the rent-a-karate-masters performed almost stole the show.

This lovely couple keeps it shady at Paris Fashion Week.

Check out the full image after the jump and tell us what you think of their retro-spy vibe.

Our first Paris Lovely is sporting the most original pair of pants we’ve ever seen.

Check out the full image after the jump and let us know if she carries it off.

Now, really—was it sporting of the French police to pick fashion week as the time to start their crackdown on drug use in the Paris fashion and nightclub scene? The Paris season started off with, well, a bang, with the much buzzed-about charges laid against Bertrand Hennet, the chief executive of Elite World modeling agency with for possessing, buying and transporting cocaine. Mon dieu! A modeling executive with some disco dust! Quel shock.

Despite the doom and gloom of our current economy, and maybe even because of it, I have been shopping…window shopping, that is. There’s nothing like peering through the looking glass into a world of shiny, happy pieces to make a girl forget her troubles. At least until the Visa bill arrives.

By Stephanie Trendocher

Always impeccable in Dior, France’s first lady (and former supermodel, for those who’ve been under a rock), Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, knows how to make a fashion statement. But her latest fashion accessory comes not from the hands of couture designers, rather a sewing cooperative in Khayelitsha, South Africa, where Bruni-Sarkozy was given the multicoloured hessian and cotton bag.

By Siofan Davies

New Yorkers were firmly in the grips of election fever when I visited over the weekend (indeed reminders to vote punctuated many a conversation, even between strangers), so it was fitting that fashion got a bit more democratic with the arrival of Chanel’s Mobile Art exhibition. If the current economic climate makes purchasing the classic, and now 50-year-old, quilted 2.55 bag the exhibit celebrates a little difficult, not to worry, Chanel has made entrance free and accessible to all.

Photographer Peter Stigter captures the best off-the-runway looks during Paris Fashion Week. Check back every day for more great street style. Click to see a slideshow.

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By Rebecca Voight

Wow, it’s Sunday and it’s almost time to say ‘That’s all folks!’

Marc Jacobs had Edith Piaf singing her heart out for one of the best Louis Vuitton collections ever. The mood was titi Parisienne and the models with poodle dos did have what the French call “du chien.” But by the end of the show it was clear Jacobs had set Parisian cheeky chic to an African beat.

By Rebecca Voight

Paris is noisy, but Australian designer Martin Grant is so calm, cool and collected you might miss him. This is a man who knows where a woman’s waist is and he manages to highlight it in almost every silky dress.

By Rebecca Voight

Requiem’s design duo, Italian Rafaele Boriello and French/English Julien Desselle, are, along with Christophe Decarnin at Balmain and Giambattista Valli, Paris’s next big things. Inspired by christening dresses and Truman Capote’s 1966 Black and White Ball—in other words couture and dressy baby clothes—the show was full of desirables. Requiem’s elegant little dresses, especially the first one they showed featuring ruffles, mini pleats and puffy sleeves in white with a trompe l’oeil black vest, has just the right amount of delicacy.