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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week: Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2016 Photos + Video!

Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2016

The Dish: Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2016 collection. The collection was designed by the post-Raf Simons design duo of Lucie Meir and Serge Ruffieux. After Simons abruptly quit the famed French fashion house last October, they were given the task of taking on the design duties. Meir and Ruffieux were no strangers to designing at Dior since, in fact, they were Simons' chief designers for the line.

Dior designers Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meir, taking their final walk at the Chrsitian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2016 show

New Christian Dior Creative Direction Maria Grazia Chiuri (right), during her final walk with Valentino co-designer Pierpaolo Piccioli

It was just announced at the end of Paris Haute Couture fashion week that Valentino co-designer Maria Grazia Chiuri will now take the helm and be the official replacement for Raf Simons at the House of Dior, making her the first woman to do so in the 69-year history of the fashion label.

But before Chiuri presents her first collection (Spring 2017 RTW) in October, the design duo of Lucie Meir and Serge Ruffieux presented their final Haute Couture Collection for Dior.

Trends: The collection was based on the famed Dior Bar jacket and New Look silhouette of 1947, but updated. Feminine, loose silhouettes. Full skirts; below-the-knee hemlines; flat Roman sandals. Sequined embellishment; see-through; billowy sleeves.

Colors: Black and white. Creme.

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Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2016

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Fashion Week: Valentino Fall/Winter 2016 Photos + Full Runway Video!

Corps De Ballet: Valentino RTW Fall/Winter 2016

WHAT: Valentino RTW Fall/Winter 2016. The Valentino show was all about Ballet and specifically, Modern Ballet/Modern Dance. Models sauntered down the runway in ballet shoes (most of them), and lots of tulle tutu-like skirts, leotard tops and exquisitely sequined dresses.

COLORS: Black, nude, blush, chartreuse, pea green

TRENDS: Oversize; Ballet flats; A-line; Tutu skirts; Sheer;

Valentino RTW Fall/Winter 2016

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Fashion Week: Chanel Fall/Winter 2016 Photos + Full Runway Video!

Pile On The Pearls: Chanel RTW Fall/Winter 2016

WHAT: Chanel RTW Fall/Winter 2016. No UBER multi-million dollar set; no Chanel supermarket; no Chanel Casino; no Chanel Airport terminal. None of that. Just a runway and clothes. Very Chanel clothes, as usual. Lots of tweed, lots of pearls, lots of Chanel equestrian-like boots and 60's-like Stewardess hats (well, there was a little of that Chanel Airline, I guess!). If there was any theme at all, it was all about the multi-layered pearl necklaces. It's Chanel, after all.

COLORS: Fuchsia, powder pink, gold, carmine red, denim blue.

TRENDS: Capes; Oversize; Cropped/Bolero Jackets; Bright colors for Fall/Winter; A-line shapes; Metallic; Trapeze Shape.

Collection Highlights:

Chanel RTW Fall/Winter 2016

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2016 Photos + Full Runway Video!

Helmut Newton Haute: Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2016

WHAT: Saint Laurent RTW Fall/Winter 2016 by Hedi Slimane. This was a momentous collection in terms of the Fashion World. For several reasons: There are rumors that this might be Slimane's farewell collection and if so, it was a very OVERT homage to THE GENIUS of Yves Saint Laurent. I'm not so sure that he might be on the way out but possibly, Slimane might be getting a new title as head of Saint Laurent Couture, if this RTW Fall/Winter 2016 collection is an indication. It was impeccably made and with the most exquisite of fabrics, including the finest of leathers draped and ruffled in a way only the Master's atelier would have been able to do it. Dresses that looked from photos as if to be of printed fabrics, turned out to be (after closer inspection) hand-sewn sequined masterpieces...

Inspirations, perhaps?--Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture designs, 1970's-1980's

Oh, and yes, then there was the Homage to YSL: There was Le Tuxedo, Le Pouf; One Shoulder Divas; The UBER 1940's Fur Coats (referencing YSL's scandalous Fall/Winter 1971 Haute Couture Collection). About the collection, some--including WWD--thought it was more of a parody, they said "How 'bout Eighties camp couture?". Yeah, they did. But I thought it was FABULOUS. I LOVED it. I say BRING ON the YSL Eighties camp couture, thank you very much. I also LOVED that the show was done a la Couture old school: No music and instead, just a voice reading off the numbers of each look..."Numero Un".

Shoulder Divas: Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2016

I am sure that this is a very limited clientele...say, the MTV Fashion Divas such as Lady Gaga, Sia, etc. but I have a feeling this is all a precursor for an upcoming Saint Laurent Couture collection headed by, you guessed it, Hedi Slimane. Yves Saint Laurent Director of the Archives, Monsieur Pierre Berge was sitting in the front row, along with Catherine Deneuve and Betty Catroux. And they all clapped after seeing that final bright red heart-shaped fur coat. If those Haute Couture emperors (and empresses) of style liked it, then I think it was all very Tres Bien!

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