Paris Fashion Week Spring 2009 Highlights

I somehow missed the daily coverage of Paris Fashion Week Spring 2009. Thanks to Telegraph site, for listing all the possible trends for spring 2009.

• Wild west Gaucho "chaps" and jeans (Givenchy); cowboy fringes (Hermès); denim (Watanabe)



•Overalls, boyfriend-blazers, jumpsuits, scout-shorts, military jackets (Chloé, Balmain, Wunderkind, McCartney)



• Africa and the East Ethnic prints (Junya Watanabe, Tsumori Chisato, Bernhard Willhelm); tribal hair, fertility goddess-heels (Dior); kimonos and fisherman's trousers (Yves Saint Laurent); sarongs (Lagerfeld); global souvenirs (Westwood); bug prints (Alexander McQueen)






• Space hi-tech, cyber-warriors, Star Trek, futurism (Balenciaga, Hussein Chalayan, Gareth Pugh)




• Straight shoulders, pads, epaulettes, "wings", shoulder-guards, dramatic seaming, cutaways and one-sleeve shapes (Rue Du Mail, Comme, Stella McCartney)



• Metallics/mirrors, copper, silver, gold, (Dries Van Noten, Balenciaga, Sophia Kokosalaki, Christian Lacroix, McQueen)




• The new greens Fern, jade, olive, celadon (Galliano, Chloé)





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