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Best of Paris Fashion Week- Fall 2011 from Balenciaga, Chloe, Miu Miu, Rick Owens, Carven

Runway Review Snippets: Our top 5 from Paris are Balenciaga, Chloe, Miu Miu, Rick Owens, CarvenParis Fashion Week, as always is the most directional of cities when it comes to silhouettes and attitudes.This season, without exception, the Parisian runways offered a dramatic shift in form to a more oversized, almost cocoon shape and many with strong exaggerated shoulders. A shape that is strikingly visual on the runway and may need some modifying for the everyday woman not to appear bulky.>> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway ReviewsThere's a very distinct shift in shapes that you should note, both for next fall, and what you can scout on on the racks now. Did you notice that Chloe made it on our list again?

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Paris Fashion Week Spring 2011, Spring’s BonBon That One Must Savor

Runway Review: The Best of Paris Fashion Week for Spring 2011 from Celine, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Rochas, and Carven We're always amazed at the way a French woman savors a bonbon... like a special treat that you want to linger and thoughtfully and slowly digest on your palette. That's exactly how we feel about Paris Fashion Week for Spring 2011. Some of the most divine pieces were shown during fashion week in that we had to savor them before we could share with you. Naveed Hussain brings you the Best of Paris Fashion Week. Enjoy! -- S.H. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews As always, fashion season's don't get as exciting and inventive anywhere else as they do

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Fashion: Best of the Decade & Its Defining Style Moments

Fashion designers of the decade and their standout looks that will become the hallmark of 00's fashion Our fashion savants, and vintage experts, Andrea Perini and Naveed Hussain of VagabondNYC are like walking encyclopedias of iconic fashion moments from mid-century to today. The fashion industry kids are a go-to source for what's relevant from the past to wear today. Andrea and Naveed have culled some of their thoughts from the past 10 years and let us be a fly on the wall with this quick-study crib sheet of what influences in fashion they feel are worth your remembering and collecting from the decade and why. Is it fair to call this a decade of heavy revivals? Why so? AP: Absolutely.

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Grunge Fashion: Part Deux…

Coffee Beans and Warm Leatherette Grunge Fashion: Part Deux, Coffee Beans and Warm Leatherette- it's all about designer Glam Grunge Seattle had it. Marc Jacobs put it on the fashion map. Kurt Cobain gave way to Kate Moss, and the early 90's are a lifetime away. Well, except in the land of the unwashed, granola-with-a-toke dudes and dudesses where it possibly never went away. Grunge is back in a big fashion way! This time it's glam grunge, if you will. More Alexander Wang with a dash of Balenciaga inspiration rather than a thrift shop overkill of fill-your-bag-for-five-bucks at the Haggle ‘N Hoard. Modern grunge one-ups the thrift shop rag version and is more about well-honed vintage mixed with good design

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