Photo Diary | PFW, Days 7-8: Chanel, Sacai, Paco Rabanne, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Valentino, Stella McCartney

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  • Chanel A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Chanel A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Chanel A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Chanel A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Sacai A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Sacai A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Paco Rabanne A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Jean-Charles de Castelbajac A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Valentino A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Valentino A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Stella McCartney A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Stella McCartney A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde

PARIS, France —  Today, our trusty contributing lensman Sonny Vandevelde brings us photo dispatches from the backstage of the Chanel, Sacai, Paco Rabanne, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Valentino and Stella McCartney shows.

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Photo Diary | 10 Fashion Moments at Paris Fashion Week

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  • Rick Owens' beautiful draped silhouettes and soft colours | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Sarah Burton continued her astounding evolution of the Alexander McQueen brand with a show focused on exploding 3-dimensional shapes. | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Marc Jacobs clever plan to bring more bags than ever on the Louis Vuitton runway, while evoking the brand's heritage of travel was a showstopper | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Olivier Rousteing delivered a characteristically over-the-top Balmain collection with Fabergé egg motifs | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Effortless, minimal shapes in bold colours, made for a Hussein Chalayan show that was surprisingly commercial, but still striking to take in | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Pretty clothes and new shapes at Dior, but where was the dream? To be continued. | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Kenzo designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim showed their second collection of bright prints and colours at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Alber Elbaz's blowout 10th anniversary fashion show and party at Lanvin was the Paris Fashion Week moment | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Gareth Pugh's female urban warriors were ready for a style battle | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Manish Arora toned things down and focused on the codes of the house in his second showing for Paco Rabanne | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital

PARIS, France — Ahh, Paris. The spiritual home of fashion where the wonderful diversity of creative ideas and fashion dreams comes together in a veritable cornucopia of collections that close off fashion month. We’ve selected ten fashion moments from the Autumn/Winter 2012 collections in Paris, with photographs by Morgan O’Donovan, whose camera was focused on all the goings on backstage — before, during and after the runway shows.

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Fashion flocks to Tumblr, Arora at Paco Rabanne, Barneys’ talks change, Arnault’s olive branch, Lunch with Massenet

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http://vimeo.com/17599877 Why Fashion’s Top Brands Are Flocking to Tumblr (Mashable) “According to Tumblr… approximately 180 of the top 1,000 Tumblr blogs are fashion-related. And fashion-related Tumblr posts are reblogged on a much greater scale than general Tumblr posts… suggesting that ‘there’s a huge capacity for fashion content to go viral on Tumblr.’” Manish Arora Confirmed as Paco Rabanne

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