While I was still upset because Miucha Prada said “the platform is dead”, the unbelievable happened… Chanel showed clogs on the runaway! I mean wooden shoes, the ones my aunt used to wear when I was a little girl. And the worst part is that maybe (I said maybe) I will wear such shoes next spring, will you?
images: style.com

Balmain dress & Wind chime hoop earrings

Indigo blue hoops & Twenty8Twelve

Sometimes designers seek inspiration in different places, and sometimes they find it in the nobility, provocative splendor, and the refined aristocrat-icy of the Russians. We spotted it in the Matrioshka jewelries and handbags at Chanel:

in the outfits of D&G and Francesco Scognamiglio:

and of course in John Galliano pret-a-porter:

images – fall-winter 2009 at chanel.com & style.com

Shoe jewelry, anklets, chains… name them whatever you want, but there is one thing for sure – your feet want to be chained and crystallized! Just like in DSQUARED latest ad:

Or at Lanvin spring-summer 2010 pret-a-porter:

Or at Missoni spring-summer 2010 pret-a-porter:

Prada spring-summer 2010 pret-a-porter:

and us – femm.ca :

You can find them also at Isabel Marant, Viktor & Rolf and many more. Images – style.com & femm.ca

Vera Wang chains:

Missoni whistles:

Marc Jacobs:

and Zac Posen mirrors:

images – style.com

The last runaway looks were strangely absent of jewelry pieces, but we still could spot a few trends that we liked. So here they are
* Dolce & Gabbana – statement and leather necklaces:

Oscar de la Renta – statement necklaces and huge earrings:

Michael Kors – transparency:

images – style.com

Here I will try to list all the trends and micro-trends for the Fall-Winter season, and if I missed something – feel free to add it :)
Major Trends:

* Biker leather jackets – my personal favorite one;
* Big shoulders, you can see them everywhere – on dresses, jackets, suits…;
* Punk chic – all those spikes, I’m loving it;
* Fangs, you know… the vampire ones;
* Leggings, leather pants, and pants that look like leggings;
* Draped dresses and blouses;
* Mini’s, like mini dresses, mini skirts, no skirts at all…;
* forties and the eighties, …