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Top 10 Fashion Moments
1. Vertiginous Heels
Heels just keep getting higher and higher, and nobody embraced this dangerous trend quite as emphatically as Gwyneth Paltrow, 36, who trotted out an endless parade of towering heels while promoting Iron Man in April. There she was in London in square-toed Alexander McQueen platforms, in Berlin in laced-up Burberry booties, and in Paris carefully clutching her bodyguard as she descended a set of stairs in boots said to be 7-in. tall. As her tour-de-force progressed to new heights, so too did onlookers' amazement.
2. Obama-mania3. Mourning Yves Saint Laurent
The fashion world shed a tear in June when the legendary French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, died of brain cancer in Paris at the age of 71. As a designer, he was as important to 20th century fashion as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior. After a stint at Dior at the tender age of 21, Saint Laurent opened his own house and set fashion on fire by elevating street clothes to the haute couture runway. His funeral was a veritable who's who of fashion, society, and French politics, and many of the women there wore trousers, which Saint Laurent is credited with making fashionable for the fairer sex.
4. Lace
After a spring season filled with eye-popping floral prints in a neon color palette came Miuccia Prada's refreshingly lace-filled fall collection. Not overly frilly or feminine, Prada's lace look projected a serious sophistication that verged on Goth and prompted countless copies.
5. Valentino Waves Goodbye6. Michelle Obama's $148 Dress
By the time Michelle Obama appeared on The View in June, her sartorial preference for cool designers like Thakoon and Isabel Toledo was earning praise. So when she showed up on the morning gabfest wearing a $148 printed tank dress from the retail chain White House|Black Market, she immediately set blogs abuzz and women across the country feverishly trying to get their hands on it.
7. The Little Black Dress
If you pay any attention to runway trends, chances are that you too were captivated by the dress that opened Balenciaga's fall 2008 show in Paris. Simple, sculpted and slit high on the thigh, it was severe and not just a little bit intimidating. And as the economy spiraled downward, no single look captured fashion's new sobriety like this one: dark, determined and utterly chic.
8. Mrs. Sarkozy
When former supermodel Carla Bruni married the president of France in February, tongues were wagging over the anticipated glamor she would bring to politics. And on her first state visit to London in March, Bruni didn't disappoint. Clad from head to toe in Dior throughout the trip, the Italian-born singer (who turns 41 in December), was the subject of endless, breathless commentary by the press, who immediately drew comparisons to Princess Diana and Jacqueline Kennedy.
9. The Return of the Supermodel10. Boyfriend Jeans
Heels just keep getting higher and higher, and nobody embraced this dangerous trend quite as emphatically as Gwyneth Paltrow, 36, who trotted out an endless parade of towering heels while promoting Iron Man in April. There she was in London in square-toed Alexander McQueen platforms, in Berlin in laced-up Burberry booties, and in Paris carefully clutching her bodyguard as she descended a set of stairs in boots said to be 7-in. tall. As her tour-de-force progressed to new heights, so too did onlookers' amazement.
2. Obama-mania3. Mourning Yves Saint Laurent
The fashion world shed a tear in June when the legendary French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, died of brain cancer in Paris at the age of 71. As a designer, he was as important to 20th century fashion as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior. After a stint at Dior at the tender age of 21, Saint Laurent opened his own house and set fashion on fire by elevating street clothes to the haute couture runway. His funeral was a veritable who's who of fashion, society, and French politics, and many of the women there wore trousers, which Saint Laurent is credited with making fashionable for the fairer sex.
4. Lace
After a spring season filled with eye-popping floral prints in a neon color palette came Miuccia Prada's refreshingly lace-filled fall collection. Not overly frilly or feminine, Prada's lace look projected a serious sophistication that verged on Goth and prompted countless copies.
5. Valentino Waves Goodbye6. Michelle Obama's $148 Dress
By the time Michelle Obama appeared on The View in June, her sartorial preference for cool designers like Thakoon and Isabel Toledo was earning praise. So when she showed up on the morning gabfest wearing a $148 printed tank dress from the retail chain White House|Black Market, she immediately set blogs abuzz and women across the country feverishly trying to get their hands on it.
7. The Little Black Dress
If you pay any attention to runway trends, chances are that you too were captivated by the dress that opened Balenciaga's fall 2008 show in Paris. Simple, sculpted and slit high on the thigh, it was severe and not just a little bit intimidating. And as the economy spiraled downward, no single look captured fashion's new sobriety like this one: dark, determined and utterly chic.
8. Mrs. Sarkozy
When former supermodel Carla Bruni married the president of France in February, tongues were wagging over the anticipated glamor she would bring to politics. And on her first state visit to London in March, Bruni didn't disappoint. Clad from head to toe in Dior throughout the trip, the Italian-born singer (who turns 41 in December), was the subject of endless, breathless commentary by the press, who immediately drew comparisons to Princess Diana and Jacqueline Kennedy.
9. The Return of the Supermodel10. Boyfriend Jeans
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