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French Chic Beauty Goes Avant Garde for Paris Fashion Week

Runway Beauty Recap: Big beauty drama is big on the Parisian catwalk for Spring 2011 It's that time of the year again in Paris when fashion hits the runways and fashion is more in the forefront than usual. Runway beauty can be very different than woman on the street beauty, particularly during Paris Fashion Week - Spring 2011. However, in all of it attention-getting extremes, there are nuances for you think about for your own look. The boldest extreme brows >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews One very common look was the edgy blacked out dramatic brows. The bold brow was seen on the runway at the Ann Demeulemeester and Rick Owens show. Smokey eyes and rich red lips

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Printemps Paris Store Windows Love New York, Mr. Brainwash Style

Retail Remedy: While we are obsessing about Paris Fashion Week, Primtemps is in LOVE with New York! The grass is always greener on the other side of a trans-Atlantic flight... Here I am living in Paris and fending off questions about the Paris Fashion Week and the Parisain department store Printemps loves New York, my former hometown. Go figure. While Paris is overflowing with some of the most styled out fashion peeps in the world and celebrating French Chic like nobody's business, Printemps is celebrating the Big Apple with these clever window displays. Michael Kors and Campbell's Soup Spray Paint Fifteen iconic New york designers including Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, Alexander Wang, Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schueller and

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Best of Resort Fashion- A Season Ahead, Just In Time

Resort runways are often a precursor to what's in store for Spring. Let's consider... A girl could lose her head. Or at least spin it around so many times that it will catapult her neck and land in a frisson of colliding fashion seasons that all ineditably fall into one: What looks right on YOU now! Spring is shown in late summer (at least by the scroching temps merely a week before NYFW). Fall in early winter. Then, there's resort... resort? You have yet to think about autumn leaves! In this insane goggle-muggle where fashion is shown in the time frame of when retailers need to place their orders for the following season and magazines need to pull for their

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Opening Ceremony Menswear

OPENING CEREMONYMENSWEAR COLLECTION Fall / Winter 2010-2011 Paris / New York >> Read Opening Ceremony Collection Review "The Opening Ceremony Showroom departs New York and travels across the Atlantic to Paris in anticipation of the Fall/Winter 2010 men's market. Collection inspiration from the style and culture of modern France. Classic Breton sailor stripes, traditional French naval uniforms, European gypsies, 1968 student revolutionaries, and New Wave coolness" Click on each picture for an enlarged view. In their words... The Opening Ceremony Fall 2010 collection takes inspiration from the style and culture of modern France. Classic Breton sailor stripes, traditional French naval uniforms, European gypsies, 1968 student revolutionaries, and New Wave coolness influence the Fall/Winter first delivery offering. Opening Ceremony imagined an

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Gareth Pugh

GARETH PUGH Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection Fall / Winter 2010-2011Paris Fashion Week Gareth Pugh is having his fashion moment, breaking out and making sure that there is no doubt that he is a major fashion force to watch and covet. The bold and avant-garde silhouettes from Spring 10 are still there, but for fall 2010, Pugh has taken them up more than a notch with almost origami draping of leather to create a breathtaking and truly stunning result that is chic, very cutting-edge, and most definitely wearable. Bravo! -- S.H. SHOP: Gareth Pugh at Luisaviaroma Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos: kirsty/catwalking

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Balmain

BALMAIN Fashion Show Photos / Runway Collection Fall / Winter 2010-2011 Paris Fashion Week Gold is the word with plenty of 70's suits, disco inpiration, and total glam rock for the Balmain girl who loves to strut herself. This is a see and be seen glamour collection full of signature structured shoulders. -- S.H. SHOP: Balmain at farfetched Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos:Kirsty/catwalking

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Jean Paul Gaultier Furniture Sweetens Up Paris Elle Decor Suite

Love the crazy way Jean Paul Gaultier put his signature nautical stripes on wacky, cool furniture For the last two years Elle Decor has selected a fashion designer to decorate the former apartment of Jacques Carlu at the Cité de Architecture. This year the chosen is Jean Paul Gaultier, proceeding Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela. Jean Paul Gaultier has brought his usual whimsical and sometimes kitschy style to the 2,400 sq. ft. space atop the museum. >> Home Style SHOPPING Guide Sort of an optical illusion Enter the vestibule and you find his signature marine blue and white stripes covering the walls and furniture but the stripes are askew in certain spots making it an optical illusion. Lushness abounds In

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