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Stella McCartney autumn winter collection 2011 at Paris Fashion Week – Stella McCartney autumn winter fashion trends for women 2011: It was a mothers and children event at Stella McCartney’s show at the Paris pret-a-porter season.

While the designer was backstage putting the finishing touches to her autumn/winter 2011 collection, with her three eldest children, sons, Miller and Beckett, and daughter Bailey, with the latest addition to the family, 3-month old Riley in her arms, the Russian supermodel, Natalia Vodianova, arrived front of house with her three children, Lucas, Neva, and Viktor. Wearing a Stella McCartney top, with a brief Balenciaga puffball mini, she posed happily for photographers, before joining Sir Paul McCartney, his girlfriend, Nancy Shevell, Liv Tyler, Zoe Felix, and Lucie de la Falaise, in the front row.

McCartney continued her experiments with cleanly-cut, oversized coats and jackets, devoid of ornamentation, in the masculine-inspired, minimalist manner. She introduced finely-pleated Little Black Dresses, which moved with ease along the catwalk – and which suggested ‘Pleats Please’ – but which echoed the volume motif in dropped-shoulder balloon sleeves, and were finished with a large zip at the back. And she added high, stretch, corset-waists to skinny skirts and trousers.

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Emanuel Ungaro autumn winter collection 2011 at Paris Fashion Week – Emanuel Ungaro autumn winter fashion trends for women 2011: Giles Deacon, the British designer, delivered a fierce, sexual message with his second collection for the Emanuel Ungaro label in Paris this morning.He unleashed tight black leather micro-suits, leather mini-dresses covered with loops of fine leather thongs, and skintight leather trousers, atop corset-bodices, all accessorised with thick leather “dog” collars, buckled in gold. See-through metallic lace slips skimmed the thighs, over black mini-knickers, and even on a sheer, black mid-calf dress, where the model’s modesty was only just preserved with a few strategically-placed strips of black satin. “There is this idea that Paris is the city of love, but really it is the city of lust,” said Deacon. “Mr Ungaro always said he dressed the mistresses, not the wives. I decided to do the same this season.”

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Jean Paul Gaultier autumn winter collection 2011 at Paris Fashion Week – Jean Paul Gaultier autumn winter fashion trends for women 2011: “No corsets, no flesh! It’s quite ladylike. I can’t believe it,” said Jean Paul Gaultier, the inventor of Madonna’s rocket-cone bra, before his show in Paris on Saturday night.His autumn/winter 2011 collection was a witty take on age, which he called “how to look young – without Botox.”

All the models had grey wigs which were teased into exaggerated French pleat hairstyles; save for the gender-bender catwalk star, 19-year-old Serbian-Australian, Andrej Pejic, whose blonde hair was all his own.

They all looked the epitome of Parisian chic in belted trench-coats, smart tweed jackets and skirts, and tailored, pinstripe trouser-suits with pussy-cat bow blouses, and all the right accessories. One model appeared in a mink and tweed coat, another in a silver brocade tunic and ski-pants, trimmed with fur, and both pulling matching shopping trolleys along behind them. Supermarket chic de luxe!

The collection worked all the clichés of well-off dressing-up, with tongue-in-cheek humour and superb tailoring, which has always been Gaultier’s strongest suit, referencing everything from Catherine Deneuve in ‘Belle de Jour” to the original “Stepford Wives”, with a touch of “Mad Men”. But although there was this retro mood, it was modern and fun.

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Céline autumn winter collection 2011 at Paris Fashion Week – Céline autumn winter fashion trends for women 2011: The image of a woman at the wheel of a powerful motor, sent Céline’s creative director, the British designer, Phoebe Philo, into overdrive at the Paris prêt-à-porter season here this afternoon.

Her autumn/winter 2011 collection was inspired by automotive interiors and expressed in streamlined cuts, bonded leather and vinyl, and woodgrain-prints based on the burr walnut dashboards and marble-ised inlays of vintage cars or a classic Rolls-Royce, Bentley or Jaguar.

The theme was echoed in the catwalk, installed in the Tennis Club de Paris, and laid to wood, interspersed with marble “tiles”, in lilac, mustard, rust, and bright yellow – colours which were then echoed throughout the collection.

Philo’s new Céline muse was “upholstered”, not merely dressed, and she charged down the catwalk at full-throttle, clutching leather, glove compartment-style bags under one arm.

Her preferred finish was a razor-sharp, bonded wool coat, in khaki, beige, or black, collared or side-fastened with a leather strap, or else delivered in a mélange of fur, with a flash of orange on one lapel. The trousers were lean and long; banded with a thick, leather, hip-basque, and covering the heels of the stiletto and kitten-heel shoes, often in two-tone leather and suede.

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Roland Mouret autumn winter 2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week – Roland Mouret Autumn winter fashion trends for women 2011: Inspired by early pictures of the young Lady Diana Spencer, in a filmy, printed skirt, shirt, and little knitted vest that could have been borrowed from her brother, Roland Mouret invested his autumn/winter 2011 collection with a soft, floaty, flowing ambience, “like perfume on a breeze.”

Fresh from the opening, during London Fashion Week, of his magnificent new, six-storey headquarters and flagship store, in a Grade one listed mansion, in Mayfair, Mouret was in a confident mood, at the Paris prêt-à-porter season this morning.

The looser line was created with clever tucks and folds, open pleats and the ingenious draping which has been a feature of Mouret’s work since he first showed at London Fashion Week, in 1998.

And the gentleness of his approach was underscored by a soft colour palette of lilac, duck-egg blue, buttermilk, taupe, grey and beige, together with his customary black, navy, mustard and khaki, and occasional shots of kelly-green, parma-violet, ruby, and cobalt.

Mouret also introduced fur, in the form of throw-on vests, little boleros, and draped jackets, in stripes of lilac, black, and mustard, which co-ordinated with the prints and jacquard knitwear.