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Paris fashion week finished by showing what a label will do to justify its designer status and, perhaps more pressingly, its prices.
Miu Miu is the younger, less expensive and very successful offshoot of Prada, although in recent years the company has been issuing nervily emphatic decrees that it is not to be described as such but to be seen as an independent label in its own right.
To emphasise this separation between the two brands, yesterday Miu Miu held its fashion show for the first time in Paris instead of in Milan, where Prada showed last week.
Designers moving from London to Milan for status is commonplace; moving from London to Paris even more so.
But moving from Milan to Paris is unique because Milan is a major fashion centre, so moving to Paris is superfluous, unless a company was trying to make a specific point.
The collection, however, was still a young one, but certainly not a cheap one. Models languorously strolled through the salon in wedges so high and ornate they could have been mini-Corinthian columns, and in elegant dresses made out of heavy brocade fabrics more commonly associated with British country hotels.
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The fashion frenzy gripping the French capital came to its peak over the weekend as Galliano and McQueen fired off showy bursts against the rich, classic backdrop of Valentino and Vuitton in the final collections of Paris Fashion Week.
The two British designers did not disappoint fans who have come to expect gasp-inducing creations from them.
McQueen drew on his Scottish roots for a multi-hued, multi-layered collection which he admitted was "less aggressive" than his previous forays into the shades and feelings of his homeland.
"The highlands are so romantic, so beautiful... and so much work," he said.
Galliano, ever flamboyant, softened his approach somewhat for his autumn / winter offering, aiming for what he described as a "romantic, ethereal" show that pressed home its point with subtle colours and faded images amid the attention-grabbing shapes of his styling.
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The L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival has finished for another year after delivering colourful parades fit for a king.
The Tiffany Designer Award was first out of the blocks on Monday and delivered to RMIT graduates Ingrid Verner and Monika Tywanek of T.vanek Verner for their oversized grey knits and loosely belted trousers.
It was after the sun set that Myer delivered with a massive show at the Melbourne Central City Studios at Docklands.
With 50 models and a cauldron burning in the catwalk's centre, the grand collection featured strong looks from Valentino to Alex Perry and Toni Maticevski.
The main runway parades, held in a Waterfront City circus tent at Docklands were packed each night with its large circular catwalk.
But the venue lacked the elegance of the Regent Theatre in Collins St, which has played host in past years.
The best off-site parade featured dalmatians and manor chic by Country Road with an impressively cosy collection of silky camisoles and buttoned-up woolly cardigans.
Held at the GPO's Lexington Bar, the parade was a perfect showing for the cooler months ahead with warmer than warm woollies for gents and ladies with swinging beads, fitted cord military jackets and fedoras.
Deep plum and white were the accents used against the black and charcoal palette, set off with divine
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STYLE is making fashion season mobile, creating video Podcasts of the designer runway shows in New York, Milan and Paris.
Podcasts of Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and more are currently available on iTunes, with at least 10 additional shows from designers like Prada, Chanel, and Gucci being released over the next two weeks.
The captivating, 3-5 minute mini-documentaries go beyond typical runway videos to truly capture the atmosphere of the shows, using behind-the-scenes interviews and celebrity quotes to illuminate the catwalk and backstage footage.
The Podcasts are the latest addition to STYLE's comprehensive, ever-evolving coverage, which has been luring a growing number of users to the site for their fashion news.
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The V&A Museum sponsored by Topshop plays tribute to "fashion reporter, editor, divinor of trends, designers' muse and self-styled icon" Anna Piaggi with an exhibition.
Anna Piaggi is unique.
"Fashion-ology" refers to her idiosynchratic way of looking at clothes.
With her own take on scientific precision, an attitude rather than a method, she has for over 30 years told the new stories about fashion.
Putting words to clothes, turning pages into shows, styling the future: this has been Anna Piaggi's art of fashion.
To see Piaggi at work is a rare glimpse into her fascinating career. London was a catalyst, and highlights from her personal archive in Milan detail her extraordinary trajectory on the world fashion stage.
The exhibition is divided into 13 statements, sometimes only the size of a text panel, sometimes a room full of objects.
The logic of the layout is a series of intersecting As and upside down As that become Vs: Anna and Vogue, Anna and Vanity, Anna and her husband Alfa, and Vern and the V&A.
Bending the material to fit this system is in keeping with Anna Piaggi's loyalty to typographic design, each month bending words to fit Luca Stoppini's layout in her Double Pages.
The shape allows each section to open onto the next; her ideas are never contained or finished, but will be picked up
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