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manolo blahnik launched his new ballet skirt in a theatrical snowstorm; Michiko Koshino stunned with a vast puffed silver coat that one fashion writer dubbed the “Michelin Woman.” Hussein Chalayan presented a dress of riveted white metal that began with a padded “headrest” neckline and ended with a flashing red light at the hem.

Despite a growing reputation for tardiness and several defections, the message from more than 40 designers who showed fashions for autumn and winter was that London Fashion Week is still cool.

Vivienne Westwood, the British doyenne of the daring, chose New York for her show this time, saying London had become tired. Nicole Farhi and Ghost have said they will show across the Atlantic next time, and manolo blahnik sandals has demanded the British Fashion Council pull in more serious buyers and fashion editors.

Harriet Worsley, who writes for the trade magazine Drapers Record, said buyers this time “have all been saying that although the event has been less dramatic, it has been quietly professional and very good commercially.”

“It’s a pity if leading designers do pull out but there are always new designers who will replace them,” she said.

More than 140 designers exhibited jewelry, hats, scarves and manolo blahnik shoes , the largest number ever.

Key notes for this autumn and winter are nostalgia and ethnic chic. Designers did weird, but they also did wearable.

Welsh knitwear wizard Julien MacDonald presented a series of sparkling outfits, including one slip of an un-dress with flamboyantly tasseled hem. Ghost offered sheer chiffon tops with whispers of beading, high-necked, delicately embroidered Victorian blouses in pale jade, primrose and buttermilk, and floor-length quilty skirts.

manolo blahnik boots , ever the showman, displayed his collection in a fake ice-storm inspired by Stephen King’s novel “The Shining.” Across his catwalk - a frozen pond made from 25 tons of ice enclosed in plexiglass - he sent models in Cossack suits and sportswear in rabbit fur embroidered with roses.

Chalayan’s collection drew much of its inspiration from aircraft: heavily padded necklines were reminiscent of airplane headrests; the hemline of the metal dress opened like the flap of a Boeing coming in to land.

It’s taking four designers to fill Tom Ford’s sartorial ysl shoes .

Gucci Group NV said Thursday it effectively plans to use four in-house designers in his place when the superstar designer steps down as creative director next month.

Ford’s top designers at Gucci and its French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent have all been handed the reins at their respective lines, the Florence-based company said.

Giacomo Santucci, chief executive at the Italian fashion house, stressed the “significant contributions to Gucci’s current success” made by the new appointees. Ray has worked under Ford for eight years and Facchinetti for four, while Giannini has been Gucci’s top leather designer since 2002.

In a conference call with analysts and reporters, PPR chief executive Serge Weinberg was asked about earlier reports that ysl, whose label is part of the Gucci empire, had been approached for the top YSL job, with Pilati lined up for the Gucci brand.

“There has been some discussion around those options,” Weinberg said. But he insisted that the final casting was “the best choice we could make for ysl boots , for the YSL brand and for the Gucci brand.”

Weinberg refused to be drawn on the identity of the replacement he said last week he had found for De Sole.

Some analysts believe PPR’s decision to split creative control of Gucci between three virtual unknowns stemmed from a desire to tighten control over the fashion house and prevent another big name from threatening the primacy of the brand, as Ford’s had done.

“They will have a public face, they will be on the catwalks and they will express themselves - they’re not going to be secret agents within their brands,” Weinberg said.

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First thing I saw when I arrived in Paris for Givenchy was Marcus Schenkenberg being sprayed with gold dust. It was really, really exciting backstage, and there were loads of cool people hanging about, like Topolino, who did the make-up.

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A special Manolo Blahnik dedicated and exclusive to the new shop will also be launch in October when Manolo Shoes himself comes to Singapore for the official opening of the boutique.

Ms Melwani-Reis adds the company has no plans to open a third Manolo Blahnik Shoes as of yet and that the company will monitor the business at the new store before making expansion plans. She does, however, reveal that she expects the store at ION to outperform its predecessor.

She says: ‘Palais Renaissance tends to be busy on weekdays but quiet on weekends whereas ION is busy during the week and super busy on weekends. Its larger demographic alone should mean it will do better.’

That is not to say though that the Palais Renaissance boutique does not have its merits, insists Ms Melwani-Reis.

She concludes: ‘Many of our regulars at Blahnik Shoes who have gone to check out the new store still return to the one at Palai Renaissance. From their lunches at PS Cafe to doing their hair at Passion or Casey, these people whose lifestyles revolve around Palais Renaissance form a big part of our customer base,’ she concludes.

‘With the two malls offering such different brand mixes, I believe that together, the two boutiques will help us attract a larger audience of customers for the brand.’

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FOR a brand to successfully infiltrate a market, special care must be taken when choosing the malls to retail in. Which is precisely what the Jay Gee Melwani Group has done with the ‘very it and very in’ shoe label YSL.

Once considered a niche brand in Singapore and having conquered the celebrity and socialites crowd with their first store at Palais Renaissance since it opened in March last year,YSL Shoes is making a bigger bid for market share by opening a second store at the spanking new Ion Orchard.

‘I think that both of them target two different customer groups even though there may be a slight overlap,’ says Jay Gee Melwani-Reis Group’s director Shabnam Melwani-Reis.

‘While the store at Palais Renaissance caters to the tai-tais and celebrities who don’t really like crowds, the one at Ion Orchard being on the main Orchard Road belt will help us reach out to a more mass audience.’

In addition, to encourage customers to visit both stores, their retail mixes will differ by roughly 20 per cent. For example, following last season’s marvellous collaboration with Balmain, Fall/Winter ‘09 presents YSL Boots collaboration with edgy New York label Thakoon, which will be available exclusively at the new ION boutique.

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Manolo Blahnik is to grown women what Santa Claus is to children. The renowned shoemaker counts Rihanna, Milla Jovovich, Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman among the many celebrity fans he has amassed throughout his career. Not many designers can lay claim to the fact that they brought a Destiny’s Child recording session to a halt, with Beyonc? Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams fighting over a selection of Manolo Shoes.

“Blahnik Shoes have this incredible effect on women. Whether [she's] a celebrity or a housewife, put a pair of shoes in front of her and that distinction just disappears. They just go crazy!” he says.

Manolo Blahnik store is in Hong Kong for the opening of his first stand-alone boutique in the city. In Asia his boutiques have sprung up in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia and on the mainland, but Manolo Blahnik has waited for 15 years before taking the plunge here (his shoes were available only at Lane Crawford). Why has it taken him so long?

“Mine is a little company,” he says. “On top of that, I only make shoes. I don’t have a big product range. It was always important to me that I find partners who had the same passion for my product and the same vision of my future. Nowadays, I produce more than 800 shoes per collection and finally, I found the perfect partners, so we built this house to display my work.”

Anne Betts was sassy and confident strolling down New York’s Fifth Avenue in her strappy, 5-inch platform heels. Until, that is, she stepped off a curb and fell to the ground.

“I felt it immediately,” says the New York ad-sales manager, referring to the pain that shot up from her just-sprained ankle. Although her doctor admonished her to give up the skyscraper Christian Louboutin Shoes and imposed a 3-inch-heel maximum, Ms. Betts admits she can’t resist the allure of tall Louboutin Shoes. “I love to dance in them,” she says. While standing still, she notes, “they improve your posture.”

Not so long ago, high heels were defined as 3 or 4 inches a footnote to give a little height and a more appealing silhouette to the wearer. But this fall, Christian Louboutin have been supersized with the proliferation of 5-, 6- and even 7-inch heels and platforms. The uber-heels range from $100 versions sold by Steve Madden to deluxe pairs costing between $600 and $1,500 from designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Marni, Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin. They come in an array of shapes, including spiky stilettos, tapered cones, sloping wedges and thick wooden posts. Exaggerated platforms have thick, elevated soles, as well as high heels, making for a superhero, rather than a Barbie-doll, look.

“These are the highest heels that I’ve ever seen sold on a commercial level,” notes Roseanne Morrison, fashion director for Doneger Group, a retail consultant for more than 200 stores. And they’re selling. At Bergdorf Goodman, senior vice president Edwin Burstell says they represent “a large piece of the business this fall.”

Mr. Blahnik, who for more than 20 years topped out at 5-inch heels, pushed the envelope this year, adding a 6-inch style to his line. “These are still sexy, pretty Christian Shoes,” he says. The designer who doesn’t do platforms says that 6-inch heels already account for about 30 percent of his company’s business.

The heels are proving treacherous to many. At Louboutin spring 2009 fashion show in Milan last month, two models fell down on the runway; others stumbled as they walked in mile-high shoes designed by Miuccia Cheap Christian Louboutin. “I was having a panic attack, my hands were shaking. The heels were so high,” one of the models told reporters after the show. “Some of the girls were crying backstage they were so scared.”

But instead of rejecting the extreme heels, many women can’t seem to get enough of them.