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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

Pixelated prints, cinched waists and thigh high skirts are de rigueur in Paris for spring. Say what you will about morosity dictating a more sombre stance, fashion is marching to its own saucy beat.

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

Who needs colors when you have great lighting? At Nicolas Ghesquière’s futuristic show for Balenciaga, fabrics changed color as they were hit by overhead light beams. The shimmering collection of sequin tube dresses, metallic fringe and tiers of iridescent, crinkled ribbons sewn together for a bubbly effect, had a chic Barbarella quality in simple shifts with space-uniform seaming and drop-waist tank dresses. The glitter factor was balanced by narrow, matte trousers with intricate insets in an intriguing mix of fabrics. And Ghesquière has seen the future of the handbag as well. Balenciaga’s square clutches in shiny croc and lizard spell the end of the big, messy bag.

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

It was a birthday special in Paris on Monday with Cacharel celebrating it’s 50th and Martin Margiela looking back on his 20-year design career.

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

It’s blazing Indian summer in Paris, which poses a bit of a problem because the collections kicked off here this weekend.   But even a rare sunny day couldn’t keep me away from the Palais de Tokyo, Paris’s contemporary art happening space, where Gareth Pugh posed a series of neon poles for a futuristic show of light and dark with razor sharp tailored armor.

By Susie Sheffman

I’m here! Landed this morning and literally hit the ground running. Wish I could say the same for my suitcase, which obviously thought this week was Paris Fashion Week and ditched me for the City of Lights.

By Amanda Losier

An entire week filled with red carpets, parties, and movie screenings sounds wonderful, but the busy days and late nights can leave even the most devoted partiers feeling worn out. To provide an oasis to unwind, Goody has set up the IT Lounge at the Windsor Arms Hotel packed with everything to survive the Toronto International Film Festival.

Lovely in…Très chic accessories

Spotted: St. Nicholas Street

Tanned and glowing after a trip to the tropics, I was finally ready to take in some serious summer culture when I showed up at Sophie Calle’s opening cocktail party at DHC/ART, my new favorite art hangout. What a party! Everyone was there: the artists, the fashionistas (many of them flaunting gorgeous Renata Morales dresses), the colorful students. Yes, a real Paris-style happening. The cherry on the cake: a surprise concert by Feist. You weren’t there? Just don’t miss the exhibition, it’s phenomenal.