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Christian Siriano

Fashion Show Photos & Video / Runway Collection FALL / WINTER 2011 New York Fashion Week Staying true to his glamazon ethos, the fall Christian Siriano collection brims with a beautiful old school meets modern glam sensibility for a very wearable collection that also has the few showstoppers not to disappoint reality fans or Nicki Minaj. SHOP: Get a a piece of Chritian Siriano at Payless Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Video of Christian Siriano fashion show:   Photos: Image,net & focusonstyle.onsugar  

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Mugler

MUGLER "Anatomy of Change" Debut womenswear collection under the creative direction of Nicola Formichetti Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection FALL / WINTER 2011 Paris Fashion Week >> WATCH: Lady Gaga's new video for the menswear show   Did you notice Lady Gaga walking in the show? The show featured a never-before-heard track, "Government Hooker," by Lady Gaga, the show's Musical Director. Note: The collection was previously known as Thierry Mugler and has been renamed Mugler since Formichetti took over creative direction.   >>SEE: Mugler menswear f/w11 fashion show photos Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Before the show, a set of three photos were leaked to the media, as follows: Mugler Sneak Peek #1 Mugler Sneak Peek

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Mackage

MACKAGE Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection FALL / WINTER 2011 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York DON'T MISS: Mackage Runway Review from our Alix Kivlin... "Always well-tailored with a body hugging fit, the Mackage Fall 2011 collection holds this true to form. I have always been a huge fan of their outerwear and their impeccably fitting pants, this collection I will add a nod in the direction of the overall RTW look." SHOP: Mackage at Shopbop Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos: Mackage

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Louis Vuitton- Menswear

LOUIS VUITTON MENSWEAR Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection FALL / WINTER 2011 Paris Fashion Week - Menswear Click on each picture for an enlarged view. In their words... LOUIS VUITTON HOMME | AUTUMN-WINTER 2011-2012 For Louis Vuitton's Autumn-Winter 2011-2012 collection, Men's Studio Director Paul Helbers, under the artistic direction of Marc Jacobs, has explored the ultra simplified elegance of Amish style and instilled it with a hint of strangeness, inspired by David Lynch. Describing this unique pairing of Amish design elements with Lynchian overtones, Helbers evokes an «unworldly boy wanderer» as he discovers America. «We have gone back to cut and construction which is why this collection is almost all black to emphasize shape and technique. Jackets are sculpted

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Chanel Haute Couture

CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection Spring / Summer 2011 Paris Couture Fashion Week   Karl Lagerfeld said he had "Gossip Girl" star and new Chanel spokesmodel Blake Lively in mind when designing the spring-summer 2011 haute couture collection, which layered delicate hand-beaded jackets over skinny jeans and flats, as stated on AP   >> MORE: CHANEL Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos via focusonstyle.onsugar

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Tres French Chic Store Windows Approved by La Parisienne Ines de la Fressange

Retail Remedy: A homage to the stylish women of Paris Who better than French style icon Inès de la Fressange to be the ambassador for La Parisienne? That's the event at Galeries Lafayette department store to promote the stylish, urban women of Paris. Inès de la Fressange is a former top model, a muse to Karl Lagerfeld, and once the visage of Marianne, the national emblem of France. More recently she is also had a successful career as a designer, a fashion consultant, and currently the brand ambassador for the renowned French shoe brand, Roger Vivier. But the big store window homage is to push her new style book, Parisian Chic: A Style Guide, or as she describes, "a user's

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Home Style- French Furniture House Taillardat Adds a Fashion Touch to Marie Antoinette, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire and Directoire pieces

Style Where You Sit: A modern spin on high-end 18th century furniture reproductions You all must know that I cannot possibly imagine living in a home without the benefit of having something beautiful to look at and inspire by way of its furniture. For me, in particular, the chair can take so many artistic and creative forms that I wish I could collect as many as my other obsession- shoes and boots! >>MORE: Home Style I've almost run out of any possible space to add another "interesting" chair in our loft, so I've come to admire from afar, particularly ones that have a different design aesthetic from my home. Richard Nahem, who has a pretty fab pad in Paris, came

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Louis Vuitton- Men’s Collection

LOUIS VUITTON Men's Collection Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection SPRING / SUMMER 2012 MEN'S FASHION WEEK PARIS   The debut collection from designer Kim Jones. Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos: Louis Vuitton / Ludwig Bonnet

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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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House of Dior Homage Exhibition for Paris Fashion Week

Retail Remedy: Le Bon Marché in Paris showcases the Eternellement Dior We know how much Richard Nahem loves the Paris that he shares in his walking tours, and he will be tipping FocusOnStyle during Paris Fashion Week. Designer John Galliano has been certainly in the news this week for his rather horrific alleged comments caught on a cell phone video. I've been interviewed a bit for my opinion on this and, based on what I have seen thus far, personally support the House of Dior in its termination of the designer as its creative director in the wake of this situation. You can see the video on The Sun, here. Le Bon Marche Rive Gauche, a major Parisian department store

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Nanette Lepore Fall 2011 Runway Review

  New York Fashion Week Highlight: All the prints were oversize but still so delicate and evoking the callings of Art Nouveau, any true girl will love to wear them. More from New York Fashion Week...A pure and refreshing tone was set with Nanette Lepore's Fall 2011 collection of airy pieces, complimented with chunky knits, tweeds and leather.There was a streak of black leather and delicate dark prints, otherwise the palette was warm creams, champagne tones, soft greys and some punches of sea foam blue. You would have thought it was Spring if it weren't for the sweaters and outerwear! >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews The khaki utility trench was a key outerwear piece, with tonal color blocking

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Anna Sui Fall 2011 Runway Review

New York Fashion Week Highlight: Lively & wearable- you couldn't have more sweet fun dressing up! Anna Sui has a great ability to always channel a 60's hippie vibe along with a 60's rock vibe and a bit of country thrown in for the good girls.   Her Fall 2011 collection didn't disappoint in any of these areas and continues to stay strong in the bold, bright prints, wacky accessories - the cat hat - and a high element of girliness. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews The palette is bold, but with muted colors that when placed on top of one another give us the bright prints. >> SHOP: Anna Sui at ShopBop   There was a constant rotation of style so if that psychedelic butterfly

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