We know – but seriously, it's a thing. All the models at Miu Miu sported one strand purposely stuck to their lip. As DIY looks go, it's entry level – no skills required, easy to recreate in a moderate breeze while walking to work for minimal cost. If anyone tries to remove it, just tell them Mrs Prada has spoken Photograph: PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP
Dior wowed with its floral festooned marquee structure at the Musée Rodin, but the gong has to go to the ultimate fashion showman: Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton for his farewell greatest-hits show. If a show with two escalators, two wrought-iron elevators, a full-size working fountain, a mezzanine hotel corridor, a moving carousel and a giant clock telling time backwards doesn't afford you the top spot then nothing will Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Europe
As reported from London fashion week, stripes are big news for summer 2014. In Paris the trend showed no signs of abating. Roland Mouret cited Daniel Buren's famous sculpture at Palais Royal as his inspiration, Hussein Chalayan's clever wrap dresses riffed on beach towels and were removed mid-runway to reveal swimsuits and Sacai designer Chitose Abe's intricately cut shirt dresses were a Paris highlight – she is building a reputation as one of the week's hot tickets Photograph: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images Europe/Rex/Pixelformula/SIPA
The Chanel rucksack got a lot of love from the assembled audience and social media. Spray-painted with the double C logo and customised with scooby-string Chanel keyrings, karabiners and large paperclips, it's the ultimate art-student holdall. It went straight to the top of the lust list. In addition the decision to style models with two bags had us ecstatic. Suddenly the humble overspill bag is cool. Thanks, Karl Photograph: REX/Rex Features
Usually met with raised eyebrows, fringing is a high-maintenance/low-reward trend – all those doors to get caught in. Junya Watanabe's hand-knotted fringed outfits stopped the right side of rodeo, Maje showed fringed leather that could have come from Kate Moss' wardrobe, and Phoebe Philo's bags –best described as a washing-machine door set in a leather hoover bag and a concertina leather lattice with swishing tails of fringe – were jaw-dropping good Photograph: AFP/AFP
Ms McCartney show invitations over the years have included a Little Miss book, fridge magnets, an eco torch in the shape of a penguin anda plastic polar bear – so our hopes were high for S/S14. And she did not disappoint with this googly-eyed ring. We're off to stencil our name on our nails à la nail guru Sophy Robson, who painted these talons Photograph: Helen Seamons/Observer
The Hermès woman is everything we want to be: effortless, chic, cool, well-dressed and, er, incredibly affluent. Every season we submerge ourselves in her wonderful world (Jane Birkin lives there, obvs). For spring/summer the setting was L'Orangerie at Jardin du Luxembourg, where warm madeleines were washed down with Bellinis. The Hermès woman is pure class Photograph: PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP
APC's founder Jean Touitou waxed lyrical on the subject of women dressing for women and not men, as he presented his 'sexed down' collection of dresses, jumpsuits and 'back from the beach' basics that oozed the kind of cool that is uniquely his. We lusted after the monk sandals (made by actual monks) and the wonderfully boring dresses. Heaven. Photograph: PR
In contrast to the anti-sexual look at APC, showgirls proved a popular inspiration elsewhere in Paris, most notably at Louis Vuitton, where Marc Jacobs dedicated the collection to 'the women who inspire me and the showgirl in every one of them'. Every model sported an extravagant feather headdress by Stephen Jones that was pure Moulin Rouge. At Maison Martin Margiela the sequin costumes of circus performers, a replica cabaret corset among them, contrasted with the masculine tailoring, and even the usually chaste Mui Mui featured beaded showgirl tassels Photograph: PATRICK KOVARIK/Rex/AFP/Rex
Fashion week is an Instagram addict's paradise. It's interesting to see which designers are offering up fodder for social media and which aren't. While it was requested that there were no images tweeted from Celine and security guards yelled at you for snapping Givenchy's centre-stage car-wreck pile-up before the show started, at Chanel Karl Lagerfeld served up an entire art gallery filled with 75 pieces of 'art' ripe for the posting. We thought Instagram might implode with all the selfies posed by the giant iconic 2.55 bag Photograph: Helen Seamons/Observer
