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Dior is one of the few shows where the models walk the way people imagine
fashion models walk—all attitude, like Derek Zoolander. I
watched with surprise as the big name girls, usually so cool on the
catwalk, strutted and pranced. Each one put her own bit of flair into
her final pose for the photogs—a coquettish popped shoulder here, an
arm sliding from hip to thigh there…

If you’re like me and have been following fashion weeks in London and Milan on the Web, well, it’s been an interesting juxtaposition, hasn’t it? Extravagant fashion shows happening at the same time as political drama and a tanking economy.

As headlines told of collapse on Wall Street, the models in Milan were toppling, too—because the shoes were so high and monstrously large. Anyway, now we’re in Paris, and things seem to be…

The song "I Want Candy" was used on a handful of runways this season, most often in the 80s incarnation by the group Bow Wow Wow. I’m sure it’s popular because it’s upbeat and girly, but the fact that designers are repeatedly using a song released more than 20 years ago (and was used quite recently, and to memorable effect in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette) seems indicative of the biggest problem at the New York shows: a please-everyone mentality…