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Here's what Vivienne Westwood said about the new Spring collection she worked closely on with her husband, and designer of the brand, Andreas Kronthaler. It's a lot of fun: "Colours, flowers, a riot of dance and song, joy plus instinctive

Turn it UP! This is glammest, sexiest, shiniest, champagne-fuelled club you've ever been to where Elie Saab-clad ladies with long legs look lush. We're not invited because we're too fat. Back to glam: you want high-octane unapologetic glam with added glam,

Acid bright separates passed through a cowboy filter: or something like that. It was so bright and "up" and loud and god knows at the Acne Studios show just, that it was difficult to make sense of the overwhelming "clothes-noise". But

Haider Ackermann marches to the beat of a different drum, as Linda Ronstadt may have once sung. His world is full of beautiful women doing beautiful things *really*. Not a moodboard pretence: his customers need clothes that take them from

The fashion designer who can marry elevated and thoughtful clothes with something that just "pulls on", which “works," which answers that age old question: "what exactly am I going to wear?" is the designer who chimes with modern life. Who

It’s a fascinating axis at Issey Miyake as the studio under design director Yoshiyuki Miyamae stands, just like his predecessors, with one foot in the natural - a constant source of inspiration from rocks to trees to fish scales. And the

Who the hell are we anyway? I mean, honestly, we're subjected to, and have to live with, SO. MUCH. IMAGERY. Everywhere we look we consume (visually): art and art for advertising and "art direction"; we love it. We speak it!

Janus is the two-faced god of doorways: one way in and one way out; it's an age old allusion to the split personality. Of two people in one. Janus was the title of Undercover designer Jun Takahashi's Spring show where identical

Extreme collar-pop Lady Di-style on one shirt. Extreme froufrou frockage in peach on another. Extreme Lady Di or certainly a cooler version of "the people's princess" and arch enemy of the House of Windsor. Welcome to the Off-White fashion show where mega designer Virgil

We're just out of the mind-blowing Rick Owens show, sat next to and around the Palais de Tokyo fountains in Paris. Suddenly the fountains shot up around 10 metres high. The music was a cackling Michele Lamy - Owens' wife - it

At the backstage bunfight which followed Olivier Rousteing's standout show for Balmain, just, the fashion press and high-spending buyers queued up to congratulate the French mega-talent. The designer displayed a new and exciting confidence, with a series of show-stopping looks

Much black, and that's just the eyeliner: willkommen one and all to the beautiful dark world of Demeulemeester. Here stick thin moody types in stringy ballet flats wear monochrome. It's fertile territory for the brand and the moody goths who

After the surprise departure of British designer Clare Waight Keller as designer at Chloé last season, the French fashion house welcomed Natacha Ramsay-Levi to the helm, after she quit her post as creative director of women's ready-to-wear at Louis Vuitton; a

Today's the day: Olivier Rousteing's SS18 womenswear outing for Balmain. Yay! We're big fans. His biggest fan, one Ms Neophitou, will be sat FROW - the rest of will be watching from London via the live stream above. And you