Can voluptuous fashion stay relevant in an age of austerity? Can gorgeous decoration coexist with the need for something plain and simple? Ask Alber Elbaz, a man whose recipe for reductionis

Sexy, saucy, and full-on Parisian, somewhere out of the forties and swizzled up with a dash of glitter and Josephine Baker African razzmatazz—Louis Vuitton came like a cathartic, mood-

＂It`s an investigation of our history, of our European past.＂ With that big idea in mind, Miuccia Prada sent out a focused collection of nipped-waist dresses, as well as tops and skirts in p

It was only a matter of time before all the fringe we`ve seen this season went West. Sure enough, it was down to Jean Paul Gaultier to rustle it up in full buckskin glory, across the cactus-

James Gillray and the Queen Mum. You had to be a bit of a British art-history nerd to get the references John Galliano was dispensing backstage to mostly blank looks from fashion corresponde

Wolfgang Joop is Paris` resident eccentric. He brought the zany once again for Spring, following up last season`s space romp with a collection that was more grown-up but barely less whimsica

There was a little black dress midway through Collette Dinnigan`s show that reminded people who`ve followed her career of the early days. The frock`s peekaboo-lace back echoed the lingerie-i

Limi`s showroom was apparently filled with color and her runway backdrop was her favorite shade of pink, but at the last minute, she`d decided to focus her show on black and white, the signa