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Runway trends and reviews from New York Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week. Fashion show photos and highlights on how to wear the catwalk look in your wardrobe.

Men’s Style- Best of Men’s Paris Lanvin, Dries Van Noten, Carven Collections for Spring Summer 2012

Runway Review: An edited look at cutting edge Paris men's fashion shows Khaki pants and polo shirt guys need not apply. There's a bounty of fashion-forward styles for guys who are not afraid to go the extra style mile. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews While the styling may be a bit risky for the everyday man, there certainly are some very clean and modern pieces that can easily be adapted to any cool guy's wardrobe. Take away the runway theatricality and there are plenty of looks to think about here. Our faves... Lanvin- Lanvin Men's Spring 2012 Runway Lanvin Men's Spring 2012 Runway Ditching past season's youthful plays on techno hiking garb and tricky 70's era David Bowie

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What We Love About Carven Pre-Spring 2012

Runway Review: The re-birth of a label with a limitless reach, what with it's friendlier price-points and ageless appeal. We've been big fans of designer Guillaume Henry's charmingly off-kilter bourgeois chic propositions at Carven ever since he took the reins of the quietly storied French maison two years ago. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews His first ever Carven Pre-Collection for Spring 2012 is packed with the kind of easily wearable and distinctively designed pieces that should take this label from the minor leagues to cult status without fail. Carven Pre-Spring 2012 Taking his cue from a holiday in Switzerland, Henry added a playful addition of vintage map and postcard collage prints on separates that were layered with his

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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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Best of Milan Fashion Week- Fall 2011

Runway Review Snippets: Prada, Jil Sander, Missoni are my top 3 shows A quick little baci from Milan Fashion Week... Leave it to Milan to amp up Fall 2011 with a series of forward thinking outings that were as full of nuanced personality as they were of wearable ideas. Here's a quick look some of my favorites, destined to inspire wardrobe additions and style inspirations. --Naveed Hussain >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews     Prada An intoxicating mix of nostalgia from Yves Saint Laurent in the 80's to sci-fi mermaids with an achingly hip 60's undercurrent to the demure dolly-girl dresses, Muiccia Prada's Fall outing was hedonistically other worldly pastiched with the most charming display of femininity. Jil

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London Fashion Week Gossip Recap- From the legacy of Alexanader McQueen to Mark Ronson’s fete, my tipster has the dish

The Alexander McQueen legacy is coming to New York City on May 4th, The Box makes it to London and is graced with the like's of bad boy Damien Hirst, Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton and Daphne Guinness! London Fashion Week proves to be filled with lots of Tartan... As Season 2 of "The Real Housewives of New York City" is airing in England, I'm getting an extra dose of dish from the other side of the pond. One of the pleasures of being the contributing editor at large here at FocusOnStyle is that I get all the really cool news from my tipsters around the world. This just in: "Savage Beauty", the upcoming exhibition to honor the brilliance of the

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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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Betsey Johnson Fall 2011 Runway Review

New York Fashion Week Highlight: Fashion is nonsense and should be fun and exercised with creativity and joy. Betsey gets that right year after year. If you can see a fashion show, this is hands down the one to get into. Betsey Johnson is a performance piece, not just fashion. And not just the Fall 2011 collection, but every single one of 'em. The music is revved, the models are dancing down the runway, the crowd is excited and let's not forget Betsey's infamous cartwheel finale! Now onto the clothing portion. But wait, first the super radical hair and shoes. The platinum ombre sprayed on the black hair with precise black lace stencil - radical. The open toe, super stiletto

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Michael Kors Fall 2011 Runway Review

New York Fashion Week Highlight: Every look was jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and every look conveyed the essence of the luxe jet-setter lifestyle to which he caters in complete perfection. It's borderline impossible to ever say that a Michael Kors collection isn't just stunning. After seeing this Fall 2011 collection it is actually impossible. Because every look was jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and every look conveyed the essence of the luxe jet-setter lifestyle to which he caters in complete perfection. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews As always, his color palette is built strictly on solids and with the exception of the bold red that came down the runway in a few looks, it was a very warm and soothing range of color

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Fashion Week Gossip- Oscar de Renta’s Global Revolution draws on the Silk Road, Tinsley Mortimer at Robert Verdi’s Luxe Laboratory and…

... The Genius Collection from Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig's Marchesa was truly overflowing with drama as a sure bet for the Red Carpet! Brad Boles is still terrorizing the town in fabulousness with his Blackberry... I'm sure that I love Oscar de la Renta as much as Sarah Jessica Parker does! He has drawn inspiration throughout the years from Morocco, India, and Paris in the 1920's. The fall 2011 Oscar de la Renta collection is every bit as glamorous as his previous iconic collections. Between the embellished jackets of gold bullion and sequined gowns, my source the "Debutante It Girl," was front row at the show and kept me (and you) in the loop via her cryptic texts. Oscar

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Fashion Week Gossip- Michael Kors is channeling Faye Dunaway, Nanette Lapore is into a raunchy 1970’s porn inspired look…

... the ever posh Victoria Beckman talks baby bumps and fashion humps, trapeze dresses and structured shoulders. Plus, those Fashion Freaks hoping to be discovered by Heidi Klum... so many things! Brad Boles is out and about, and he still has his Blackberry to take notes and share those opinions of his... Michael Kors dresses his client with a city chic, no frills power strut! And believe me, he did not disappoint in the the Michael Kors fall 2011 collection in a melange of simple chic cropped pants, straight shoulders, crisp suitings in a melange of camels, black & blue stripes, and bright whites. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews One huge stand-out look was the black leather shirtdress...

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Fashion Week Gossip- My Favorite Real Housewife Rocks The Runway, and more never say nevers at NY Fashion Week

Jill Zarin walks the walk as Zang Toi receives a standing ovation, Custo Barcelona rocks the house with sharp silhouette's reminiscent of Stephen Sprouse! A Gender Bending Freak wrapped in Tissue Paper... Think Lady Gaga Meets Isabella Blow! We let Brad Boles out with the fashion week dish... runway reviews to come... Who said a Sunday night was just about the Grammy Awards! Or Lady Gaga with flesh-like pointed shoulders in last night's performance of her Madonna "inspired???" song, Born This Way? Here in New York, we have Fashion Week and at the Custo Barcelona show, the Gaga would have been all over the collection with its bold retro prints in shades of pinks, purples and turquoise and lots of

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Fashion Week Gossip- BCBG, Luca Luca, a Real NYC Housewife, 22 Birkin bags, a runway legend and a mess of a crowd

Brad Boles is back with the dish... because someone has gotta dish! Let me say that fabulous clothes aside, it's the fashionista freak show that wrecks my nerves! Now, you know who YOU are so listen up: No matter how fabulous you think you are, please stop wearing sunglasses indoors! It is beyond NOT FABULOUS and bordering on idiotic pretentiousness. Crowd-a-tude aside, ladies, get ready for the fall collections to have a fluid theme. If the rest of the fall 2011 collections prove to be anything like the New York Fashion Week upstart shows that I saw yesterday. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews Fashion week crib notes from my first day at Lincoln Center... BCBG MAX AZRA had

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