"As talk of recession, global warming and terrorism buzzed around the front rows, the fashion pack were expecting more than usual from the designers this season", writes Shine Anthony-Dharan from Paris and London.
Was fashionable Paris too busy tut-tutting over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s somewhat thrifty $20,000 Dior engagement ring for supermodel Carla Bruni to notice that the A-list had decided to give the collections a miss this time around?
Cooper-Hewitt show includes dresses by Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli, Emilio Pucci, Cristobal Balenciaga, Viktor & Rolf, along with late 18th-century gowns and late 19th-century bustle-style dresses.
Fashion show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art brings the pages of fashion’s premier magazines to life with clothing from Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Dolce & Gabbana, and fifty more of the top designers of our time.
"Unlike Paris, where parties go late, or Vienna, where balls last until nearly breakfast, the typical New York function is all but done by 11:00, the frozen desserts left melting in their bowls by professional men and size 2 socialites", write insiders Alan and Julie Behr after the semi-annual circus of Fashion Week shows and parties.
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