Fashion Wire Daily - Few industries are more fickle than fashion, and few audiences more composed of fair weather friends than at a major Continental catwalk, which is why today's dreamily romantic, expertly draped and classily finished Christian Dior collection will quite probably not get the positive reviews this subtle take on modern style very much merits.

Fashion Wire Daily - Purity would appear to be the leitmotif and buzzword of the current French shows, especially at the tellingly delicate, charmingly refined yet rather risque spring 2012 collection of Nina Ricci shown on Thursday, Sept. 29, in Paris.

AP - The alchemy was off at the house of Mugler, where Lady Gaga's stylist, Nicola Formichetti, again failed to live up to his reputation as a sort of Generation Y Midas who turns everything he touches into gold.