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Photo: Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com2/45Any runway show with a soundtrack lifted from Rosemary's Baby, one of my all-time favorite films, is going to get my vote, but Joseph Altuzarra's show would've stood out for me without Mia Farrow's tra-la-las. I loved its innocence-lost feeling, and I will be spending the next several months trying to re-create this look at home.—Nicole Phelps, Executive Editor
Photo: @garethpughstudio / instagrams.com3/45Gareth Pugh got the change from the Paris catwalk he wanted when he mounted a multimedia show in New York. But it took the last performance of the evening to truly embody the event's Lexus Design Disrupted banner. I never get tired of watching bodies do what the bodies of the seven dancers from British choreographer Wayne McGregor's Random Company did. Their passionate, furious, erotic physicality stood out like a sore thigh muscle during New York fashion week. And it created a welcome new context for Pugh's work.
—Tim Blanks, Contributing Editor at Large
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6/45References to women's rights were welcome gems during the collectsions. Arthur Arbesser held his presentation at an original 1970s headquarters for the Women's Liberation Movement in Milan, and the Chanel show closed with a girl power rally.
—Rachael Wang, Fashion Market Director
Photo: Courtesy of Coach7/45
8/45Isamaya Ffrench's Pop-Op makeup at Junya Watanabe. The taped red lips were beyond!
—Angelo Flaccavento, Reviewer
Photo: @alexanderwangny / instagrams.com9/45I have no words for this seating situation at Alexander Wang. Did they?
—Rachel Walgrove, Social Media Editor
Photo: @styledotcomamber / instagrams.com10/45Precise eyebrow piercings at Rodarte: pretty much every beauty editor's backstage dream.
—Amber Kallor, Senior Beauty Editor
Photo: @georgieanner / instagrams.com11/45I'd been up and down the escalators of the Pompidou Centre a few times as a teenager, but in the context of heading to a fashion show, the dizzying vista of le tout Paris somehow caught me by surprise. It was a suitably and deliberately disorientating introduction to Iris van Herpen's collectsion. For most young designers, "innovation" means doing something groovy with your Instagram account. This ANDAM prize winner is using scientific research to stretch the boundaries of what fashion can be.
—Dirk Standen
Photo: Brian Killian / WireImage; Courtesy of Rachel Comey12/45I always meet someone fabulous at Rachel Comey's Red Hook dinner. This season it was Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld, the stoner savants behind the Web series High Maintenance. If you haven't seen it yet, go directly to Vimeo and stream the "Rachel" episode now. You won't regret it.
—Nicole Phelps
Photo: Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com13/45Thom Browne's best collectsion ever had the best accessories—each look was blessed with a hat by Stephen Jones that perfectly captured the essence of the outfit. The combination of wit, whimsy, and incredible workmanship (an entire summer of work for Jones and his atelier) was as mind-blowing as Browne's clothes. My favorite: Look 1's gray flannel.
—Tim Blanks
Photo: Leanne Shapton / @Shaptonia / twitters.com14/45The It accessory at NYFW had to be a copy of the just-published tome Women in Clothes. More than 500 women participated in the book, in which editors Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton, and Heidi Julavitz seek for the various kinds of meaning women find in their wardrobes. I missed the Women in Clothes launch—at a show, natch—but caught up with the ladies behind it at a little cocktail in the book's honor at the Rachel Comey store.
—Maya Singer
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Photo: Alessandro Garofalo / Indigitalimages.com16/45The world may never again know Catherine Deneuve's The Hunger-era glory. But Deneuve front-row at Saint Laurent in a leopard-print ganja leaf pullover is a pretty decent consolation prize.
—Kristin Anderson
The stampede of street-style photographers at the entrance of any show…They are so many by now and the subjects so much into the part, it's like watching a fashion shoot in the making, and this is said with a modicum of bitterness.—Angelo Flaccavento17/45The stampede of street-style photographers at the entrance of any show…They are so many by now and the subjects so much into the part, it's like watching a fashion shoot in the making, and this is said with a modicum of bitterness.
—Angelo Flaccavento
Photo: Alessandro Garofalo / Indigitalimages.com18/45Even from behind my computer screen, the infectious energy at Jeremy Scott's Moschino show was apparent. I'm pretty sure I held my breath the entire time Charlotte Free was roller-skating down the runway.
—Rachel Walgrove
Photo: Sonny Vandevelde / Indigitalimages.com19/45Leather liner at Fendi—does a textural twist on a classic beauty concept get any better?
—Amber Kallor
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Photo: Courtesy of Marni21/45The Marni flower market was the most mood-elevating event of the month. Fresh flowers, archival print totes, a jewelry-making station, tasty homemade snacks. If only Consuelo Castiglioni's label turned 20 every year. The runway show that preceded it was sensational, too.
—Nicole Phelps
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Photo: Alessandro Garofalo / Indigitalimages.com24/45Dries Van Noten was my favorite show. The sit-in finale especially took my breath away.
—Rachael Wang
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Photo: @brando66 / @mickestorakers / instagrams.com26/45Food designer Corrado Calza did a great job on the pauperist canapés at Prada. By using homemade bread, he turned the butter-and-anchovies and butter-and-cucumber delights into something a lot more humble. The chocolate-and-bread combo was a dive back to the past, right into my childhood. I am not obsessed with food, I swear, but the naughty canapés at Acne…Cream-filled, cock-shaped cookies, anyone?
—Angelo Flaccavento
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Photo: Fabio Ionà / Indigitalimages.com28/45Chatting with my hairspiration, Janice Alida, about her new shag at Anna Sui inspired me to grow out my bob and jump on this season's '70s bandwagon.
—Amber Kallor
Photo: @2bmanagement / instagrams.com29/45The posters for Peter Lindbergh's exhibition were all over Paris, and then one day I found myself walking by the Gagosian Gallery by chance. Timeless is an overused word, but how else to describe Lindbergh's photographs? The architect Jean Nouvel probably comes closest to describings their allure when he talks of their "mysterious depth." What price beauty? About 70 grand for the large prints.
—Dirk Standen
Photo: Gianni Pucci / Indigitalimages.com30/45I've never met a turtleneck I didn't like, and this hand-tatted lace number on Raf Simons' Dior runway was no exception.
—Nicole Phelps
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com31/45Alber Elbaz's all-or-nothing approach to a show marking Lanvin's 125th anniversary inspired him to summon memorable faces from his fashion past. Violetta Sanchez, the sublime Kirsten Owen, Natasa Vojnovic, Anne Catherine Lacroix, and Esther de Jong brought a seasoned serenity to the Lanvin catwalk. But it was Amber Valletta, combining dignity and drollness in equal degree, who brought the majesty.
—Tim Blanks
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Photo: Courtesy of Vetements33/45Adding a show to my Paris schedule at the last minute is usually a recipe for next-level crankiness. But the collectsion from Vetements, a new Paris-based collectsive, totally made my day. I'm dying for a pair of those wide-legged sweats.
—Maya Singer
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Photo: Monica Feudi / Feudiguaineri.com35/45Vintage-y florals at Céline captured my hippie heart.
—Rachael Wang
Photo: Gianni Pucci / Indigitalimages.com36/45I've always been a big-bag kind of girl, but I'm a changed woman after spotting the micro purses at Fendi.
—Amber Kallor
Photo: Gianni Pucci / Indigitalimages.com; Courtesy of Kristin Anderson37/45Surreal little touches are my personal kryptonite, so after Opening Ceremony's hand-heavy Fall offering, I was delighted to find the motif back on Spring runways. Zana Bayne sent out gorgeous bags and belts bearing clasped silver hands, and over at Céline, Phoebe Philo topped tunics with these delectable stickpins.
—Kristin Anderson
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Photo: Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com40/45Heritage brand revivals are often a case of square peg, round hole, so it was especially satisfying to see the talented Julie de Libran, who worked under Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, land at Sonia Rykiel and launch her career there with such a great first collectsion. This look in particular stood out for me.
—Nicole Phelps
Photo: Getty Images; Neil Rasmus / BFAnyc.com; michelgaubert / Instagram41/45It was a season when soundtrackists brilliantly extemporized on designers' themes. Three of the best: Fausto Puglisi's mix of Daft Punk for his own show; Frédéric Sanchez underscoring Prada with the unlikeliest mix in Christendom (Psychic TV and Funkadelic), which churned and soared ever upwards in dark ardor; and Michel Gaubert's inspired combination of Pet Shop Boys and Whitney at Chanel, "I'm Every Woman" dropping abruptly into a silence that was broken by the battle cries of Lagerfeld's model demonstration.
—Tim Blanks
Photo: Gianni Pucci / Indigitalimages.com42/45Nicolas Ghesquière designed some of the season's best accessories for Louis Vuitton, including a pair of heeled ankle boots in patchwork patent leather I can't wait to get my hands on.
—Rachael Wang
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Photos: Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com; Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com45/45What can you say about a gingham housecoat? There's something kinda noir about it, purest Americana waiting for something off-kilter to happen, like the postman ringing twice. Hard to choose between Altuzarra's Look 7 and Bottega Veneta's Look 26. Maybe Maier got the edge because his gingham was worn by Edie Campbell, newly blonde and looking like she knew something no one else knew. A proper noir popsy.
—Tim Blanks
