British Designers Light Up Paris Fashion Week

published Mar 3, 2008
British Designers Light Up Paris Fashion Week
After the relatively sedate shows and commercial clothes that came down the runways during the fall 2008 collections here, it was left up to a couple of Brits to put the fantasy back into Paris fashion week.

Designers Alexander McQueen and John Galliano each presented over-the-top shows that were not only spectacular theatre but starred some extraordinarily beautiful clothes that provided a jolt the jaded fashion crowd needed from the lull of the week's lack of runway theatrics.

On Friday night, Alexander McQueen presented a fantastical collection based on a fairy tale - The Girl Who Lived In The Tree.

If that tale doesn't seem familiar from your Mother Goose days, never mind, it seems to be a concoction of this genius designer.