Talbot Runhof hit a perfect note

If Louis Vuitton's showing this morning had been decadent as a result of having the most impressive staging of all of the fashion shows for the season, then it can be said of Talbot Runhof's that they had selected the most opulent of venues for the day. Corinthian columns were staccatoed amongst a room of illusionistic ceiling paintings and gold leaf. That opulence wouldn't translate into Runhof's autumn / winter collection, but the fact that this baroque room sat in contrast to the modernised walkway that led to it certainly would. For what we were presented with was something a re-emerging fall 2011 fashion trend in Paris: the masculinisation of women's fashion for the season.
Look-after-look on Talbot Runhof's runway nailed precisely that, and in fact it offered up the best take on the boyfriend shirt dress that I believe I've ever been privy to. But it did it all without leaning so heavily towards the masculine that the feminine was lost altogether.
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