Alber Elbaz is on a role. His latest collection for Lanvin, which showed at Paris Fashion Week this week, was founded upon the feminine glamour that has become trademark to the designer's style. Complex ruffles, drapes, gathers and pleats were testament to Elbaz' technical capabilities, and adorned everything from short dresses to sweeping floor-length gowns with high splits; tailored jackets to jumpsuits. The exotic statement jewellery that accessorised the collection made it all the more complete - chunky chains, writhing Medusa snakes, and jaguar heads amoung them.
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When model Miranda Kerr arrived in Continental Europe recently we pondered if the Victoria's Secret model had been booked for a coveted Paris Fashion Week show. And indeed she had. Not that you necessarily have noticed if you were amongst those front row at Balenciaga's Spring 2010 catwalk.
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With military, shoulder, leather and cutaway detailing fused with more shine than even a hair-care commercial can offer up, Balmain Spring 2010 sits amongst the Spring 2010 catwalks precisely as you'd expect it: infused with sex and bordering on the outlandish.
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Plaids, pocket handkerchiefs, and clashing prints. As Paul Smith's Spring/Summer 2010 collection paraded the runway at London Fashion Week, it made a smooth - if slightly strange - transition from Female Dandy to tribal trend.
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Are all your sit ups paying off? Fashion designer Peter Dundas certainly hopes so. Or at least that's the impression that you might take away from the Emilio Pucci Spring 2010 catwalk.
Dundas turned to Abbey Lee Kershaw to show off his interpretation of the exposed stomach and one shoulder fashion trends.
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Subfusco as an Australian label are going from strength to strength. Their Spring/Summer 2010 collection - titled 'Collective Species' - stands out as designer Joshua Roberto Scacheri's best yet. On the runway at High Fashion, High Tea each outfit coherently fit with the story behind the collection: hope for humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.
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With supermodel Natasha Poly leading the charge, designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana ensure that the closing of their Spring 2010 catwalk at Milan Fashion Week is an iconic one.
With its interpretations of the female dandy trend, amongst many others, Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2010 should prove equally as iconic.
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We first fell in love with Nicola Finetti's Spring/Summer 2009/2010 collection when it hit the runway at RAFW, so we were more than a little excited to present a selection of the pieces at 2009's High Fashion, High Tea. The sharp shapes and figure-hugging silhouettes are intensely flattering to the female figure, while the futuristic overtones make the collection bang on-trend and perfect for any Spring wardrobe.
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We've seen all manner of bold shoulders making their way into the Spring/Summer 2010 collections; from the gently puffed, to the over-exaggerated football shoulders of Alexandre Herchcovitch; the razor sharp to the harshly squared. But Todd Lynn's take from London Fashion Week is rather more sinister.

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Purple's Olivier Zahm capture of a single moment on the Versace Spring/Summer 2010 runway succinctly sums up precisely what designs from the fashion house have come to represent for so many.
Splits aside, Versace's Spring 2010 collection is replete with sheer and cut out elements, and event a hint of underwear as outerwear courtesy of a plastic mini-skirt that Natasha Poly pounded the catwalk in.
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