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Stylish Space: Kelly Wearstler Studio

Kelly Wearstler was famous for interior design before launching her fashion collection, so we expect her showroom to be chic in every way. And it is, perfectly complementing the metal jewelry and unique prints Kelly designed for Spring 2013. Its Hudson River views were particularly dramatic during the storm that drenched the beginning of New York Fashion Week.

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London Fashion Week, Fall/Winter 2012

London Fashion Week has blossomed from the industry stepchild to the It Girl of fashion weeks. Burberry Prorsum, Erdem, McQ Alexander McQueen, Issa LondonChristopher Kane and Mary Katrantzou all showed this week. Tom Ford held private appointments. I’ve been trying to keep up with Ken Downing here for four packed days. Speaking of it girls, I’ve seen Alexa Chung’s haircut on heads all over town. Another beauty note: “tattooed” eyelids, with points clearly drawn on the outer corners of the upper lids. You heard it here.

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Sheer Madness at Paris Fashion Week

Here is one clear trend to emerge from Paris Fashion Week, both on and off the runways. Aside from the sheerness, the chic look is quite demure and covered up. For attendees of fashion week, it offered a great way to look au courant for Fall while coping with the unexpected Paris heat. Of course, the right underpinnings are crucial.

Sock Hop at Paris Fashion Week

Yet another trend to emerge from the audience at Paris Fashion Week: ankle socks. This has been a signature of top stylist Alex White for some time. (Last month she styled the entire Oscar de la Renta show with socks.) It makes any outfit appear more youthful and more quirky. For Fall we see boots and booties with trompe l’oeil sock effects, particularly the coveted Miu Miu glitter bootie, so our eyes are already adjusting to the way a sock defines the leg. The natural next step is to wear actual socks. And work those calves.

Shop Falke ankle socks on NeimanMarcus.com.

People Watching at Paris Fashion Week

Sure, we go to Paris for the shows, but the people off the runway also hold us in thrall.

Photos by Gabrielle de Papp and Darlys Michaelis.

Paris When It Sizzles: Fashion Week

Sin City, Hitchcock blondes, Goths at the Garage, Daphne’s hair and that was just day one. Paris is burning. I mean it’s really warm. The weather is right for the collections at least, so we want the clothes now. For the intrepid Neiman Marcus crew, some of whom flew in from Milan and others from Dallas, day one in Paris started with Guy Laroche and ended with Thierry Mugler. In between we had Dries Van Noten’s ode to Las Vegas, a Rochas riff on Hitchcock — with Tippi Hedren beehives — a truly gothic front row at the Garage in the Marais for Gareth Pugh, and a little mixed media at Rue du Mail. Off the runway, we love the sock and sandal look sported by the cooler-than-thou girls. We think the look originated with German tourists — think black ankle socks and Birkenstocks — but was made chic by uber-stylist Alex White. Whatever its origins, it sure beats opaque tights when it’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Georgia May Jagger: It’s In The Jeans

Georgia May Jagger The Grand Hotel in Paris has been a nexus of opulence from Napoleonic times right through the circus of the Balmain Fall 2011 show, held here and attended by Kanye West, just hours prior. Yet it’s where we encountered Georgia May Jagger—at ease and barefoot in jeans and a vintage T-shirt she has owned since age 12—to discuss her new role as the face and design collaborator of Hudson Jeans. There are a half-dozen hip Paris hotels you’d sooner expect a Chanel model/rock royal/denim designer to crash, but classic luxury is Jagger’s element.

Fresh off a shoot for French magazine Jalouse, she is prepping for her next appearance, a party at Montaigne Market to launch her capsule collection for Hudson. Signing on with the label was a career defining moment for the budding designer. Together with Hudson’s head designer and creative director Ben Taverniti, her eponymous line of five styles in black, white, gray and blue washes, with a skinny leg and a mid-rise, launches at Neiman Marcus next week. The styles are named for members of her famous family.

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Valentino’s Designing Duo

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Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri

The Valentino atelier at 8 Place Vendome is calm and efficient in the days before designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli present their Fall/Winter 2011 collection to the fashion cognescenti. Not even a surprise visit by former Paris Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld  seems to rattle the pair. They continue to cast and fit the willowy girls who wait patiently outside the showroom doors, stopping once in a while to ask Madame Roitfeld’s opinion.

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On Our Radar: MUS

MusBelgian Myriam Ullens, founder of MUS, is a philanthropist and contemporary arts patron who logs a serious amount of air miles while tending to her projects. No surprise, then, that the line is designed for comfort, versatility and traveling well. Currently it’s produced in Italy and sold in European boutiques.

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