From Paris to New York, The Post’s Alexa brings you the hottest styles gracing the runways.
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1. MILAN: La Dolce Vita
Two looks from Salvatore Ferragamo's Fall/Winter 2013 collection On a recent September evening, stars aligned for the opening of Salvatore Ferragamo’s revamped women’s boutique at 3, Via Montenapoleone. Freida Pinto, Karolina Kurkova and Francesca Eastwood were among the celebrants toasting in the building’s piazza. Inside, luxe leather goods found eager buyers, as they have since the store opened in the Casa Carcassola-Grandi palace 74 years ago.
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2. LONDON: Union Paul
Two items from the designer's Fall/Winter 2013 collection London’s Albemarle Street gets an extra dose of Paul Smith’s trademark British flair with his newly expanded Mayfair boutique at No. 9. Smith, known for his cheeky designs (skull-cameo cufflinks, a necklace made of tiny greyhounds, polka dots galore), has endowed the updated store with many of his own original sketches. Adding to the artsy effect — if you can stop gazing at a wall covered in 30,000 dominoes — is a gallery space featuring Paul Smith pieces, along with some vintage finds updated in the label’s signature fabrics.
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3. NEW YORK: Long Live McQueen
A creation from McQueen's Fall Winter/ 2013 collection Getty Images “Give me time and I will give you a revolution,” the late Alexander McQueen once declared. Though he didn’t get nearly enough of the former in this world, his successor, creative director Sarah Burton,has staged the latter with the line’s flagship new store. McQueen has traded its Meatpacking digs for 747 Madison Avenue. The approximately 3,400-square-foot store features ingenious — and trademark McQueen — details, like burnished hooves on chairs and architectural embellishments that allude to the infamous armadillo heel.
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4. PARIS: You’d be Alaïa
A dress from Spring/Summer 1997 on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris Sept., 2013/ The designer poses with a model wearing a bustier dress from the Fall/Winter 2003 couture collection AP/ Patrick Demarchelier Michelle Obama and Victoria Beckham (not to mention “Clueless” Cher Horowitz) are hardly alone in their admiration of Paris-based designer Azzedine Alaïa. The Palais Galliera honors the fashion iconoclast with a retrospective running through January 26. And Alaïa himself seized the spirit: he has just opened a new boutique off of Avenue Montaigne, at 5 rue de Marignan, filled with more of his museum-worthy designs.