Every fashion season ends on a high note. Paris is by far my favourite week, with designers who truly approach fashion as art: making diverse clothes that range from the exquisitely beautiful to the utterly bizarre. Recession? what recession? Perhaps *some* designers reigned themselves in a bit, but the results were still breathtaking. Paris did ( Read more... )

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6. Todd Lynn"Heaven send us better times" was the theme, and there was indeed a vaguely clerical aesthetic to the collection - with a gothic edge. The focus was on skinny pants, perfectly cut in a wide range of fabrics, equally as skin-tight turtlenecks, with fabulously tailored jackets, blazers,coats, and even Beautiful scarves further alluded to ( Read more... )

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Now we've reached the pinnacle. These 6 collections would probably be on my list of the Top 10 for Spring 2009 (along with Antonio Marras, Burberry Prosrum, Marc Jacobs, and Rodarte). They helped make Paris the greatest of all fashion weeks ( Read more... )

Before I get into the next for collections. I wanted to address some honorable mentions. While the overall collections fell short, a couple of gorgeous gowns by Andrew Gn and a sampling of Jean-Paul Gaultier's lustworthy shoes deserve to be presented here:


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And finally we arrive in Paris. Paris fashion week was by far my favorite, even if it did include some of the biggest dissapointments. There was an utterly atrocious and tacky wild-west themed Hermes collection, as well as weak showings from Givenchy (who was thankfully still good enough to make this list), Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, John ( Read more... )

The Fashion Continues...

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