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Jean Paul Gaultier Spring Summer Haute Couture collection for 2010 was truly haute-couture in the sense that it made you dream. It was extravagant, it affirmed the reign of fantasy and imagination over practical mundane limitations. It refused to be...

The Chanel Haute Couture Collection for Spring-Summer 2010 illustrating the theme of "Neon Baroque" imagined by Karl Lagerfeld in "three seconds" offered a series of variations on pastel colors that seemed inspired by silvery dragées and other such angelic candies,...

Fashion editor Suzy Menkes jotted down a few notes about the return of the house of Worth......

Before the showFor its eight edition of the Métiers d'Art collection the theme was devoted to the sophistication of a city, Shanghai and its imperial, Jazz Age and Maoist past. The pre-fall collection is meant to showcase the luxury artisan...

Designer Mary Katrantzou who is already well-known for her bold, graphic design applied to textile chose famous perfume bottles as sources of inspiration for her Fall/Winter 2009/10 collection. The tag line is Coco Chanel's oft-quoted pearls of wisdom, "A woman...

Shoes from the Jimmy Choo collection for H & M, photo © Magnus MagnussonJimmy Choo will be the next designer invited by H & M to create an exclusive collection for the store chain it was announced yesterday. His collection...