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IT’S the last Monday morning of fashion month and enthusiasm could wane but Stella McCartney seems to always guarantee sun (though she can't take all the credit for that this week), celebrity (her father, Salma Hayek, Twiggy and Alexa Chung), and a sex appeal she makes her own each season.
 
Today she took microprints from mens' ties in burgundy and white or blue and white and blew them up to varying degrees on mini dresses featuring asymmetrical sporty mesh under garments and ornate curling baroque appliqué hemlines.
 
Swirls of paisley lace interjected mini dresses and all-in-ones and the traditional Stella trouser suits featured more of the same softening decoration at the lapel.
 
With her standard great line-up of girls - today was opened and closed by Natalia Vodianova and had Natasha Poly and Miranda Kerr in the mix too - this collection mixed Stella's love of sporty, wearable clothes with the sexier girl she introduced us to last season via the barely-there black chiffon dresses scattered with strategically placed paillettes that has been worn by Kate Winslet, Livia Firth and, today, Anna Della Russo in the front row. This time, the side panels of dresses are missing but for a sliver of mesh, while daywear is made up of block-printed silky pyjama suits and casual polo shirt dresses worn with matching athletic pants.
 
It was less overtly sexy than last season but still playful, confident, original and Stella through and through.
 
"I really liked it," said Vogue's fashion editor Fran Burns afterwards, as we crowded out of the Opera National into the sunshine to make a dash for the Emanuel Ungaro show. "It's a definite thumbs up for Stella."

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  1. Please do tell me where Lucinda Chambers wonderful dark chestnut brown wedges are from !

    julie davison
    5 Oct 2011

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