Showing his Fall 2009 collection as an avant-garde film on the first day of Parisʼ Fashion Week, British designer Gareth Pugh delivered a dark and disturbing performance.  Evoking feelings of angst, the collection was very provocative as he seemed to be hinting at some sort of futuristic witchery.  With displaced heads and misshapen

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For Chanel’s Spring 2009 collection Karl Lagerfeld took us back to the birthplace of the fashion house, 31 Rue Cambon, the street address of Mme Coco Chanel’s atelier. Well, not exactly! Lagerfeld created a life-size replica of the legendary buildings facade as the backdrop of the label’s spring 2009 collection. The models dressed in Chanel classics, including tweed skirt suits came streaming out of the building to strut down …

Elections are taking up much of the headline news these days and one of the hot campaign issues is the environment. With designers taking their inspirations from all sorts of sources, it seemed likely that many would draw inspiration from mother nature and the damage we have caused her. Solid colors awashed the Paris Spring ’09 runways seeped in collections from Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Lanvin, Hermes and Celine.

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Stella McCartney has been turning out modern day staples that can be found in any fashionable woman’s wardrobe. The showing of her Spring 2009 collection in Paris was no exception. Stella has been a fan of the jumpsuit for many seasons now so we are sure she was quite thrilled when it seemed that everyone and their mother had taken her cue. Showing them for Spring 2009, McCartney tweaked …