Designer Phoebe Philo for Celine takes the Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 by Storm

Phoebe Philo is undoubtedly the designer of the moment. With her "No Frills" Spring/Summer 2011 collection she brought the thrill back to the Paris Fashion Week. The lady got the "real" on ramp - clothes that look wearable, clothes that enamors one with its simplicity and elegant silhouette. If the new Fashion Word is minimalistic, Phoebe Philo has shown how to do it.

No doubt, the designer is aiming to take the values of the "luxury industry in a new direction". Her collection manly comprised of supple silks and cotton fabrics - a cool option just apt for summers -collected from a distant land (Japan). The small mills of the country gave Philo a creative satisfaction though the large scale European mills, which suit the luxury label like CELINE, were always in her reach.

"It's slower because of the distance, but I just thought it was really important we stepped out of the European industrialized universe...(to get) back to basics," Phoebe Philo told The Associated Press in an interview.

The fashion critics were mum as the models sashayed down the ramp in light-coloured dresses with neat lines, smart cuts, and high on minimalistic quotient - wearable and comfortable. The designer's claim a need to go to the basics and her dresses just like her "Autumn" 2010 connection relied on her instinct to dress a woman, who not only sees a dress as a commodity but a expression of herself, a joy of being a woman.

Phoebe joined Celine in the year 2008 and within two years and three seasons, the lady has taken the brand Celine to new heights. It seems the break after she left Chloe has made this lady a more of a thinker - a style thinker or to say a fashion inventor, defining and re defining the way a woman dresses.

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Designer Sunglasses ? Indispensable Accessories for Daily Use

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Indian Designer Manish Arora with his Baroque Ornamentation at Paris Fashion Week

Future is here, at least for the Indian designer Manish Arora, who showcased his Baroque Ornamentation at Paris Fashion Week. The designer, known for his love of vibrant colours and abstract shapes, took inspiration from Baroque, an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century predominating Europe characterized by dynamic movement, overt emotion and self-confident rhetoric. For Manish it was individualistic and very Indian, though some of the fashion critics have said its Lady Gaga goin gaga.

Manish combined Indian techniques with geometric designs in bold beautiful colours with a heady mix of different kinds of head gears and weird hairstyles for his beach baroque set of clothes. When his show started all of a sudden it was splash of colours. According to him the bottomline of the international fashion is that it should be no longer boring, Manish was speaking to a news agency about his collection.

This was his fifth season at fashion's biggest trade event - the Paris Fashion Week, and his ninth international showcase - Paris (five shows) and London (four shows). His collection was also supported by Swarovski which is described by the designer as "mute, metallic, crystalline and European with wide and stiff shoulders resembling Greek armour-plates and military epaulettes".

What's in the collection - glamorous evening ensembles futuristic gowns reminiscent of Star War series, the hips of the dresses were padded for additional contours and stiff look, sheer pants and tops with sequins,outfits embroidered with crystals, beads, fine metal sheaths, applique needlework and long Victorian trains along the assymetrical hemlines, trailing into metres of sheer organza, crepe, nets, cotton-satins, silk and georgettes on the floor.

Not to miss out Manish's signature shoes, metallic pumps, bangles, and head gears in the shape a motor car. Paris Fashion Week was taken aback!