Hakaan Yildirim landed on the Paris scene during the Spring 2011 collections. And what a splashy arrival it was. Carine Roitfeld was talking him up, he'd just won the ANDAM Award, and, thanks to creative director Mert Alas, one half of the Mert & Marcus p

After his show today, Giambattista Valli admitted he's finally got his two worlds sorted: Prêt-à-porter is inspired by his personal experiences; haute couture is his fantasy. Where once they were borderline, now there is no dialogue between the two. So hi

To see Elie Saab's haute couture show and pre-fall lineup on the same day gives you a good sense of how much his company has grown. It wasn't all that long ago that his ready-to-wear collections were devoted strictly to cocktail and event dressing. His pr

Only Jean-Charles de Castelbajac could create a collection called Foxy Lady and proceed to include a print of John Everett Millais' drowning Ophelia. But she didn't actually rear her half-submerged head until toward the end of the show, which began on a c