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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.

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!

Marni, the line women love to love, is a little less instantly, obviously covetable for spring, if only for the striped leggings, which, when combined with the headscarves on the models, had the look of pirate gear. Otherwise, the collection was made up of pretty layers that were less structured and cut closer to the […]

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Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce took a trip to the O.K. Corral for their Spring 2010 D&G collection. There were plenty of ripped jeans and snap-up denim shirts, but more than cowboy chic, this was high-noon Wild West camp:

It was an odd mix of slim shorts with unfinished hems, crystal-encrusted shoes and dresses and beachy prints that came down the runway at Prada today. But trying to read the mind of Miuccia Prada is like trying to understand the motivations of Greek gods: It’s impossible, so you should just go with it. Of said motvations:  “Beach and antiquity — high and low — it is all the same,” the designer told Suzy Menkes. “It is supposed to be an ironic take — sometimes nostalgic, for a contemporary take on antiquity for those who don’t understand the beauty of the past.”

“Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.” So says Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. Even for Erdem himself, florals are nothing new. And yet, when a designer consistently does flowers as beautifully as Moralioglu, it’s hard to complain. On his clothes, they always look fresh in vibrant colours or the intricate, near 3-D embroidery of the […]

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