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Back to the real world. Fall/Winter 2009-10’s haute couture season came to a close. Jean Paul Gaultier channeled all types of screen siren personalities from the space-age warrior, super-hero to the blonde bombshell. The glamorous type-casting was just the kind of daydreaming we like on a summer Friday.

While as the best-selling couturier in the world (certainly not an easy feat), Elie Saab sent an all-white collection down the runway. The dresses were heavy on embellishment and more than once a model looked like she was floating down the runway in an ethereal (and albeit fashionable) cloud puff. Some fashion insiders didn’t like the fact that Karl Lagerfeld showed an all-white collection in January for Chanel this year in the same venue, but for the Elie Saab customer there were plenty of red carpet stunners. Besides, now Saab can easily appeal to the wedding gown crowd.  That’s what we call recession-savvy.

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, FALL/WINTER 2009 HAUTE COUTURE

ELIE SAAB FALL/WINTER 2009 HAUTE COUTURE

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“Women keen to get pregnant may be best advised to consider the least attractive man around. Ugly men are apparently the most fertile. Good-looking men with lots of lovers, on the other hand, are likely to be less successful at siring offspring.”

-Scientists discussing looks and fertility. [Daily Mail UK]