Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion's cleverest mind, Karl Lagerfeld, got a little Sci Fi this season in his spring 2009 collection shown Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Paris, but with his own classic German Expression spin and in the most courtly of style protocol.

Fashion Wire Daily - We got a major shift in paradigm and aesthetics at Dries Van Noten, the Belgium print master, ethnic driven and gardening obsessed designer who went all modern and chic in his spring 2009 collection staged Wednesday in Paris.

Fashion Wire Daily - One fashion house that seems poised to ride out the current financial crisis is surely Stella McCartney, the London-based designer who staged a wittily tailored spring 2009 collection in Paris Thursday, Oct. 2, that was all about women raiding their boyfriends' wardrobe for clothes and inspiration.

Fashion Wire Daily - We discovered the ideal cure for the current financial blues; attending Chanel's rock-n-roll aristocrat runway show, Friday, Oct. 3, in Paris.

Fashion Wire Daily - Things went a little inside out at Balenciaga in Saint Germain on Tuesday, Sept. 30, where the interior structures from the time honoured metier of haute couture were re-thought to make the latest, exciting futurist statement by the house's designer Nicolas Ghesquiere.