Colorful Highlights at Paris Fashion Week

Fashion Month has come to a close. These four weeks of each season seem to both last a very long time and go by quickly.
Paris Fashion Week's Fall 2012 season built on Spring 2012's trend of pure, unadulterated femininity. This season's woman maintained her femininity, but the clothes felt more powerful. These looks are not for the girly-girl, but rather for the woman, who is sophisticated - she knows what she wants and how to get it. This customer is not so much the cliche female at the top of her game living in a male-dominated world, rather the more tasteful lady who is unafraid of experimentation: she is bold and daring, fun and saucy. Spring 2012's girl has grown up.
Though fashions always look to the past for inspiration, these shows seemed to look more towards the future. Looks comprised of classic silhouettes re-imagined and newer silhouettes defined. Alexis Mabille presented a gorgeous wrap coat in the perfect shade of lipstick red and Phoebe Philo at Celine showed a stunning azure blue coat that took minimalist structure to the max. Balenciaga and Chalayan played on futuristic elements, the former with accentuated silhouettes and sheer details in unexpected places and the latter with sleek design and perfectly executed shapes. Stella McCartney presented the loveliest royal blue trousers that will sure to make a huge impact when they are taken to the streets and Lanvin created the epitome of feminine ferocity.

Left: Akris

Right: Alexis Mabille

Left: Balenciaga

Right: Cacharel

Left: Carven

Right: Celine

Left: Chalayan

Right: Chanel

Left: Dries Van Noten

Right: Giambattista Valli

Left: Haider Ackermann

Right: Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Left: Kenzo

Right: Lanvin

Left: Stella McCartney

Right: Yohji Yamamoto

All images from style.com

It will be interesting to see the evolution in between spring and fall this year - seeing how fashion grows up. At this point, we shall look to the street, because though we all love the runway, that's where fashion is headed.

What did you think of Paris Fashion Week and Fashion Month as a whole? What were your favorite collections of the Fall 2012 season? Let me know with a comment.

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