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A string of airport flight announcements kept Margiela fans entertained in the minutes before the start of this morning's Maison Margiela show. Look 1 and a camel raincoat chopped at the hem and yoke and pulled tight to become an off-shoulder

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s letting loose. A “shameless excitation of the Sixties” decrees the release - her latest this afternoon. A dizzying homage to Dior forebear Marc Bohan and his muse, artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Chiuri found photographs of her from the

Against a smoky runway built on the capital's famous Fontaine du Trocadero, and in view of the sparkly lights of the Eiffel Tower, Saint Laurent designer Anthony Vaccarello just reignited Paris fashion with a series of shapes that will come to dominate

Here’s what Dries Van Noten said about his show just, or rather the woman he channeled: "

Garments tossed and turned and stitched to hold "just there": the stream of ideas that came out of the Y/Project show last night could have fuelled half a dozen collections for your "average designer". Glenn Martens is not your average

Simon Holloway's changing things up a bit this season - he's got the whole Agnona mill at his disposable, so why not show off exactly what they can do? Which meant a move from neutrals to brilliant colour - an idea that came

Colour makes people feel happy. It’s proven. There’s a name for it: chromotherapy. That was written on the notes for MSGM this afternoon: “a natural method of treatment that uses the properties of coloured light to produce favourable reactions to restore health.”

After all that, black is best. The Dolce & Gabbana boys opened with it - a stream of black frocks, the ones that the boys do best - you know them - lean, revealing and totally sexy, corseted but not restrictive, all

The Marni woman was curvy. To clarify: she wasn’t, she was normal model size, but her clothes were. Curvy clothes. Now that’s a concept. Allow us to explain - think: the curves of the New Look - nipped waist, flaring at

More fresh Milanese meat, and this time there’s two of them: Lucie Meier, her of ex-Dior, and Luke Meier, him of OAMC and ex-Supreme. Notice how they share a surname? They’re married. Aw. Today was their first outing proper for

Worth waking up for. This time Tomas said he started with colour, finding himself fascinated with the Marble Room at Kedleston Hall in Britain - the blue of its frescoes, the rose of its walls, the “swirling hues” of the

Somewhere between orgasm and heart attack. This was so mega. OKAY, so you probably know by now that something MAHOOSIVE happened at the end, but we’ll start at the beginning anyway. Sooo. Show opens. Models come down the catwalk in

New Milanese arrival: Paul Surridge. And what did he do to take on the venerable house of Robert Cavalli this afternoon? He took the roof off it. Well, not entirely - he actually just took the walls off it, presenting it

Mr Armani has spoken, and he’s said prints. Well, actually he said: “the power of artistic gesture - free, expressive and instinctive - meets the sophisticated, linear evidence of the Giorgio Armani language,” but it amounted to about the same thing. We