On Monday the Fashion Editor at Large asked me to post my five favourite shows from Paris and my five favourite shows from AW10 as a whole. It's taken me until now to make up my mind! It wasn't an especially cohesive season - a lot is changing in fashion and it's given us all food for thought.
Note: I didn't want to repeat what we've already covered on the blog so I have excluded the obvious - Pilotto, Burberry, Celine. I also didn't want the two lists to overlap, so nothing from Paris is on my favourites list. Maybe now it's clear why this took almost three days to compile!
BEST OF PARIS
1) Alexander McQueen's beautiful interpretation of the Dark Ages
2) Alber Elbaz's ladylike outerwear at Lanvin
3) Stella McCartney's slick minimalism
4) Richard Nicoll's matchy-matchy extremism at Cerruti
5) Roland Mouret's draping and experimental hoods
BEST OF AW10
(From top left)
1) Derek Lam's urban cowgirls
2) Christopher Kane shows us lux youth Versace style at Versus
3) Reed Krakoff's minimal utility with plenty of slouch
4) Massimiliano Giornetti's manish tailoring at Salvatore Ferragamo
5) Belle Sauvage gives us print's last hurrah
Which were your favourites?