HANDCRAFTED DETAIL: A creation by Italian designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli for Valentino presented during the Spring/Summer 2009 Haute Couture collection show in Paris. The piece shows the precise detail designers can put into a creat (Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images)
Introducing the haute couture styles for this coming Spring and Summer, designers in Paris shaped, draped, gathered, and embroidered to offer something impressive to their special clients from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28.
STRIKING STATEMENT: French model Ines de la Fressange shows how much difference a designer can make. She is wearing a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier during the Haute Couture collection show in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images)
EMBELLISHMENT: With a fine eye for line and design, French designer Jean Paul Gaultier offers his Spring/Summer 2009 Haute Couture collection in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images)
We take a quick look at the Paris show in anticipation of New York’s Fashion Week starting Feb. 13.
