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There is a whole generation that has never worn a suit. That is about to change. You know that when labels as influential and cool as Balenciaga and Carven pack their collections with suits, a major shift is in store. It happened today at Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013. Nicholas Ghesquiere’s suits for Balenciaga were […]

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Check out the first batch of street style from Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013

If street style photography was a round of Bingo, our photographer, Stefani Yarhi would be yelling Old MacDonald’s dog’s name at the top of her lungs.

Anna Dello Russo? Check! Balenciaga sci-fi sweater? Check! Cara Delevingne making a funny face? Check! Grace Coddington’s red hair? Check!

It’s Paris. It’s raining. And the fashion cognoscenti are rethinking their footwear for Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013. Velvet slippers are out. And maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to leave the Hunter wellies at home. Here are some high and low lights from my first day in the city of light: Champagne with […]

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See our Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 trend roundup » As Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 comes to an end, it’s obvious who the key players are in influencing what will dictate the top trends of Spring 2013. The pieces you once thought were only Fall/Winter specific (ie. fur and leather)? Designers are very loudly […]

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Check out today’s batch of Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 street style»

Stripes, toques and leather oh my! With Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 winding down and Paris next in line, photographer Stefania Yarhi caught the tail end of eccentric street styles in and around the shows.

With the weather not quite down to chilly temps just yet, Yarhi’s lens captured fall trends already in full swing. The fashion crowd stayed warm outside shows in denim, leather and fur, all the while being trumped by a brilliant forest green leather jacket and pink pant combo worn by none other than street style queen Anna Dello Russo.

Check out our latest batch of street style photos from Milan! »

We hope you had a relaxing weekend, because we have more enticing photos from Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 to start off your Monday. Our photographer Stefania Yarhi was busy scouring the streets of Milan over the weekend to bring you the best street style she could find from the trenches of Fashion Week.

As always, Anna Dello Russo hit the fashion mark in not one but two different outfits outside the shows this weekend. Wearing an embroidered floral sweater by Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall 2012 collection on route to see what the duo had in store for next season, Anna Dello Russo quickly swapped into a gold and black dress while talking to a fan in a T-shirt emblazoned with “Dello Russo 01” on the back (New York’s les plus dorés’ fashion team jerseys have obviously spurred a jersey trend).

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It’s been a whole 24 hours since Miuccia Prada took her faith in the ugly-chic to its farthest extent, unleashing a Rei Kawakubo meets Mary Quant meets Marc Jacobs meets Marimekko hybrid collection accessorized with leather toe thong sock platforms at Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013. We’re still processing how we feel. Maybe we’re just finding a way to like the shoes because it feels bad to say anything bad about Prada. (It’s like; you’d never call your mom ugly, right?) Often with dear Miuccia, it takes a little while for eyes to adjust to her prophetic stylings (monkeys on stripes on poof sleeves? Hey!) but these little guys seem to be the first widely-disliked items Miuccia Prada has made in quite some time.

FASHION contributor Zeina Esmail discusses five collections of day two at Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013: Prada I woke up yesterday realizing it was Thursday, which meant going to see the Prada show in the flesh. The experience of seeing such an influential fashion collection in person, whether good or bad, is like nothing else. […]

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All eyes are on Milan now, but let’s not forget some of London Fashion Week Spring 2013’s best in beauty. Most refreshing was the influx of bright lips, an area of the face that didn’t get a lot of play at New York Fashion Week, where the general trend was minimal makeup and manicures—nude polish dominated as did completely bare, buffed-to-shine nails. In fact, backstage in the Big Apple makeup artists often skipped putting pigment on the mouth entirely opting for clear gloss. (One of a few notable exceptions, the matte raspberry lip at Jason Wu was awesome.) When they did pull out the colour, they applied it to the top half of the face: take Dick Page’s green and blue over-the-eye arches at Michael Kors, and Tom Pecheux’s abstract smears on lids at Peter Som. But, where New York left us wanting for bold, colourful lips, London made up for it in spades. Even bare-face-loving Burberry Prorsum busted out the rouge lipstick, hopefully a sign that lips won’t be silenced from here on out.

See our top 5 makeup looks from London Fashion Week Spring 2013 »

FASHION contributor Zeina Esmail hits the Italian cobblestone on day one of Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 and picks up a few up-and-comers on her way: See the top 5 collection picks » First Place: Francesco Scognamiglio By far my favourite of day one (Sorry Frida), Francesco Scognamiglio’s dreamy, forward thinking collection is just more […]

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Check out the first batch of photos from Milan Fashion Week

And we’re in Milan! Alongside Zeina Esmail who will be covering for us from inside the shows, our resident street style photographer, Stefania Yarhi, has hopped a plane from London and headed to Northern Italy to start snapping the best looks from Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013.

As predicted, we spotted yet another Balenciaga sci-fi sweater (might as well make your own) and Vogue Japan editor, Anna Dello Russo, decked out in red with a peplum and zebra bangle.

See our Spring 2013 developing top 5 trends »

While the international collections are only half way through there is no doubt that some Spring 2013 trends have been set. London Fashion Week elaborated on some of the trends that we first spotted in New York making spring style seem clearer than ever. Spring 2013 promises bold fashion ready for risk takers. Those who thought the crop top was a phase seem to have been proven wrong. Look for bare bellies and plenty of skin throughout the collections—start those crunches now.

Skin is definitely in, as leather frequents the catwalks for Spring 2013. At Mulberry, leather-on-leather takes the typically non-summer fabric for a ride dropping it right in the middle of its sugary sweet sixties-inspired collection. Meanwhile, defined digital prints continue to develop for Spring 2013 in the hands of their mistress, Mary Katrantzou: vivid images take us on a trip with international banknotes and postage stamps.