Hello Patchwork at Dries Van Noten!

The designer embraced print with open arms this season! There was heavy representation of color, print, texture and they were all put together in intricate unique combinations. There comes along a collection every once in a while that you can truly say you have never seen before. The designers indeed do something unique and special!

The designer stayed true to his style and love of this "collage" like print. Dries focused on every detail of each piece on the runway. He dedicated his collection to "a Liberal Woman", he said to style.com. I can really see that it would take a confident, strong, free women to don one of these gorgeous pieces.

Opera Premiere

This weekend, fashion went to the Opera. The Metropolitan Opera and YSL hosted the gala for the premiere of Le Comte Ory. So it was an excuse for a fabulous red carpet event all decked out in YSL!

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H&M Spring Looks

Get Ready for a lot of khaki and sharp blazers. This lookbook is pretty different from the generic flower prints we see in large retail stores in the Spring! But alas, this is the look the retail giant H&M is going for!

Will you buy into it?

Photos: fashionrogue

Kate Moss in Japanese Vogue

The great Kate Moss can never be stopped. I am pretty sure this woman completely defies the aging process! The goddess graces the cover of Japanese Vogue!

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Elie!

Oh Mr.Saab what are you doing to me! I feel a little faint after watching this show, I absolutely loved this collection. Professional women around the world rejoice! Be it at points the collection got a little repetitive and could have been severely cut down. Saab has ben criticized as being too heavily focused on evening wear, a sentiment that he hoped to lay to rest with this colleciton. If anything I would have liked to see some more of the intricate flare that makes Saab's work stand out. Overall, a great collection

Karl never fails

The world is definitely a dark place and Karl wants to make sure we know it! However, Lagerfeld wanted to convey some sort of optimism having his models walk into a white light at the end of the runway. The designs were urban, utilitarian, dark, and edgy. the color palette was very "shadowy" with heavy use of dark grays, black, reds, etc.

Shapes were knew, they were kind of over-sized, manly, and a bit of a "boxy" look. The jackets were very sharply constructed with rounded shoulders. Lagerfeld brought a re-emphasis on a new understanding of the jumpsuit.

Materials looks sort of "damaged" portraying this weird sense of a "grunge" fairy tale. Reminicisent on the dark mind of Tim Burton movies, there was something hauntingly beautiful about the garments. Lagerfeld married high fashion with street fashion perfectly with this collection.

Valentino

They dressed many a scarlet at the Oscars this year but their collection this season was a celebration of daywear. I dont really know what was going on for the first 10 looks, they seemed to bring on the yawms a little. You were quickly woken up by the prints and material mixing that came on the runway later on. There were really some of the more interesting, romantic, wearable prints I have seen. The collection will go a long way with women everywhere especially those that are looking for more wearble "real" pieces as apposed to evening gowns.

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McQueen Fairy Tale

There could truly not have been a more perfect person to continue McQueen's legacy. This show was Burton reassuring the world that she is not going to change anything of the McQueen aesthetic but that it is simply her design style as well. The collection was "icy". It mixed beautifully the frigid ice-woman with a soft pureness in the use of a lot of white and fur.

The collection was head-to-toe couture, and left very little to be worn in the real world. This wasn't the point of the collection however, it simply was the stand on its own as art. The beauty that was the last 4 pieces was simply breathtaking. Burton does harbor McQueen's sense of the unique however, in the gown made up of broken china and finished with organza.

It seems to be that before a McQueen show the world is holding its breath. Burton quickly reminds us all the breathe as she just simply did an absolute amazing job.