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Trends: Collared

Maybe a round, buttoned collar reminds you of your fourth-grade teacher, but you can expect to see more of it for fall.

Emma Peel and Her Sisters

For the finale at Hermes today, Jean Paul Gaultier sent out all the models in a union of bowler hats, fantastic leathers and umbrellas.

Paris: A Rounder Season

Louis Vuitton seemed to provide the perfect bookend to the Milan-Paris ready-to-wear season, which ended tonight.

Paris: McQueen Was Here

The final collection of the designer, who committed suicide on February 11, saw him returning to the historical past, in particular medieval symbols of faith and morality.

Icebergs at 11 O’Clock!

Karl Lagerfeld goes for the cold.

YSL: Atonement

Stefano Pilati, designing for Yves Saint Laurent, offers an attitude of protection.

The Minimalist March

Stella McCartney’s collection is clean and linear.

Let’s stay awake and listen to the dark

A new ad for Azzaro Chrome and Azzaro Chrome Sport. The song is Birds by Emilíana Torrini.

Paris: Minimalism Talks

Yesterday was a pretty interesting and confusing day. First, there was the Celine show, where Phoebe Philo’s slim, terse coats with high necks and off-center buttons caught my attention.

Paris: Body Mapping

Rei Kawakubo’s fall 2010 show seemed to transplant that concept to a new view of human anatomy and inner strength.

Let’s Dig In

Remembering a pair of old boots while still musing on modernity and fashion.

Collective Imagination

Among the trends emerging for fall are big cat spots, seen at Rochas, Dries Van Noten and Thursday at Balmain.

Balenciaga: Domestic Studies

In his collection, Nicolas Ghesquiere delivers squares on stilts, circles, raised bars like neon tubes and textures suggesting packing materials.

Harder still to describe are jackets that resembled standard airy down vests that were somehow incorporated into what appeared to be a zippered jumpsuit.

Paris: My Old Lady

With the song “Crimson and Clover” playing at Rochas this afternoon, I guess it was pretty clear we were back in the ’60s.

Milan: No Time to Spare

Raf Simons of Jil Sander designs for women on a mission.

Prada: Old Dears

Miuccia Prada’s fall collection tonight dealt with women oblivious of fads, brands, red carpets and warnings about taking the extra helping.

Burberry: Fly Girls

The shearling jackets were so ample, fluffy and round, the trousers and narrow skirts so spindly that at times on Tuesday the Burberry show resembled a lane of dandelions gone to seed. To be sure, Christopher Bailey’s outerwear for the British label was especially strong, with those romantic flight jackets spreading or curling at the collar and the pomp of officer coats.

London: Body Snatchers

I’ve been scanning the London shows and reading the reviews before I head downtown this morning to watch Burberry’s live-stream in 3-D, and it’s plain, as Sarah Mower noted in her review of the Central Saint Martins M.A. show, that the female silhouette is being revisualized.

Talking Fashion With Charlie Rose

I had the pleasure today to be on “The Charlie Rose Show” with Narciso Rodriguez, Mickey Drexler, the chief executive of J. Crew, and Robbie Myers, the editor of Elle. We discussed all things fashion from our different perspectives of the industry. The show airs tonight at 11.

McQueen Label Will Continue

Robert Polet, the president and chief executive of Gucci Group, announced on Thursday that the Alexander McQueen label will continue.

Marchesa: Courtesan Chic

I admit I didn’t know much about the life and loves of Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, known by her stage name Lola Montez, who was the inspiration for an enchanting Marchesa presentation today.

Camp Oscar

With their hair rolled and fluffed, their lips glossy and eyes smoldering in the direction of the photographers (egad!), the models at Oscar de la Renta today hinted of espionage.

Fashion as Food

Reviews of The Row, the Olsen sisters’ line, and Sophie Theallet.

Marc Jacobs’s Magic Lane

At his New York show last night, Marc Jacobs seemed eager to show clothes were exquisite without being complicated.

Seventh Avenue Drive-Through

This afternoon, before Diane Von Furstenberg’s show, I popped up to Oscar de la Renta’s showroom for a preview and, lo, the burgers and fries were inbound.