We know you’re still daydreaming about that luscious Parisian couture that hit the runways last week. To satiate your idle mind and help you relive one of the best weeks on the fashion calendar, we’ve uploaded videos of several couture shows, which include commentary from the designers. These clothes are special and must be seen in action, so if you know what’s good for you, you’ll watch all of them. Twice.

Anne Valérie Hash
Christian Lacroix
Givenchy
Jean Paul Gaultier
Valentino [NYM Video]

Whenever I go shopping, I can’t help but say things like, ‘This Zara top looks very Prada,’ or ‘Hmm, this shop is filled with Marni-esque stuff.’ (Although I have been trying to voice it out loud less.) This year, while browsing through Juicy Couture accessories online, I can’t help but see the similarities between the Juicy bags and bags by other designers. Now I’m not saying Juicy copied other designers. There are just elements of the bags that remind me of other bags.
The first thing I thought was, this looks like a Goyard bag. But after staring at the bag closely for awhile, it occured to me the print is of little puppies. And after staring at it for even longer, it starts to remind me of LAMB bags, which I didn’t think was totally original either. What a web! (Or maybe just a triangle.)
The Gucci one is too cutesy for me and the Juicy one is too preppy and seems to be made of terry cloth (-says it all.) While the two technically have very different designs, they superficially look similar to me.
Reminds me of a Gucci F/W07 bag. I think it may even have been featured in an ad. Does anyone remember it and think so, or did I just imagine it?

It doesn’t look exactly like a Gucci bag but that gold, circle metal piece in the middle is like the metal piece on a lot of the Gucci 08 bags.

Again, it’s the metal plate on this Juicy bag that reminds me of another designer’s bags. Can anyone guess?
I love this type of gold hardware that looks like a lock on handbags. The designer bag that has a lot of gold fake locks is by… it starts with the same letter as the one above.
This one is sort of obvious. One is by Dior and one is by Juicy. One is super expensive and one is relatively affordable. To be fair, both are equally cute, though not exactly my style.

Note that I am not saying Juicy copied the other designers. Nowadays with so many choices and designers out there, designers just seem to be inspired by other designers’ designs or elements of the designs a lot. It reminds me of Derek Lam saying “There’s no such thing as original design…… In a way, that’s what fashion’s about.” Afterall, it’s why certain designers are held higher than others, and why some designer collections are considered ‘directional’ in terms of trend. Anyway, it was fun just to look at the bunch of Juicy accessories together like this, wasn’t it?

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Something interesting has started happening to Kate Moss, and it has nothing to do with sharing bathrooms with her closest friends. She’s getting kind of, well, downgraded, and we can’t decide if it’s good that she’s still working or just flat-out embarrassing. First Agent Provocateur demoted her from starring in the campaign for its main line to doing its bridal line. And today we learned she’s been demoted to the Just Cavalli campaign after mugging for the Roberto Cavalli campaign for the past few seasons. Though it doesn’t have a lower-priced line for her to move to, she’s also out at Yves Saint Laurent, which replaced her with Naomi Campbell.

Designers must shake up the look of things every season, and casting changes are a necessary part of that. So perhaps Agent Provocateur and Cavalli love Moss so much they don’t want to let her go so they throw her in the slots they’ve got left. That would be rather flattering. But what if, on the other hand, they’re seeing her in a different light — less ultra high fashion and more mass market (ahem, Topshop)? Donna Karan has hired Moss again for her fall campaign since she loved her so much in the spring ads. But how long will she last before she scoots down to DKNY?

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Doie : Most of my inspirations come from trips that I have taken to South East Asia. That part of the world is so beautiful and inspiring to me..