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We love this casual-chic look that pairs runners with a crimson velvet military blazer decorated with a mishmash of flashy brooches and thrown over a psychedelic peekaboo pattern. How very Sgt. Pepper.

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In a time when default style tends toward slick leggings and studded leathers, we love a bit of rumpled chic. And this Lovely’s slouchy boots prove you don’t need Uggs to have comfortable shoes.

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This Lovely’s furry wrap and (fingerless!) gauntlet gloves are cool enough on their own, but there’s something about the headphones that give her look an impossibly chic twist.

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I refuse to believe in effortless style, so let’s call this something else. A perfect coincidence, perhaps, that the wet-look hair on all Dries van Noten’s girls looked so good on this one, off the runway. With a guy’s overcoat, classic twinning of Converse and skinnies, and the just-showered thing, she could just as easily be running late to a lo-fi rock show than to the next catwalk.

Canadien(ne)s are taking over Paris–well, a tiny, unobtrusive corner of it. Nestled into the infamous Le Regine last night were designers Jeremy Laing and Rad Hourani, top blogger Tommy Ton, Shinan Govani with a bit of an entourage, and more… “I’ve never seen so many of us in one room here!” exclaimed one lively expatriate.

New designer-to-know Calla Haynes had cause to celebrate, in her gentle way: This week marks the coming-out of her eponymous solo line. (Previously, she earned her pedigree under Olivier Theyskens at Nina Ricci and creating prints for Laing.)

We love this layered swingy take on the trench and the bright coral top livens up a potentially drab shade.

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These Lovelies serve a double helping of romantic style: gold brocade, black velvet and an explosion of dark flowers.

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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.

Some would say spoiled little princess. I say, oh my god, where did you get that mailbox clutch? In fact, this pretty (very) young thing was just one in dozens of wee lasses at Friday’s Lanvin spectacular, making it an all-ages cocktail party. Mai tais were served to make the wait swing by, and though […]

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This Lovely’s study in unstudiedness makes the perfect picture of la parisienne.

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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.

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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.