Bicycle wheels, umbrella hats, would you wear these?

The capital of romance and chic mystery capitulates the art of fashion this week as Paris fashion week begins! Yet does everyone agree with the creativity of this years Autumn/ winter 09.

Antonio Berardi emphasised his creativity with the 'extended shoulder' updating the 80's silhouette. Australian designer, Collette Dinnigan also used over emphasised angles imitating an Edwardian style both designers incorporated a feminine flow with shift dresses that easily flow.

The madness and fantasy dressings were nothing but in your face on the runway of Alexander Mcqueen and Manish Arora's autumn/ winter collections. Junk surrounded the usual simplicity of the catwalk in the Palais Omnisport, yes junk; car parts, bicycle wheels anything and everything that doesn't belong right where it was.

The designs followed the madness through amazing angles that would take out four rugby players if wore. The colour dominating the show was the colour of love and danger a clever factor i believe, red for the romance of Paris and danger to reflect the extravagant art.

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The itv lunchtime show loose women (http://www.itv.com/Lifestyle/LooseWomen/default.html), if you don't know it where have you been, is a panel of women who discuss burning issues of the day.

The question of whether the above designers and their collections were a push to far for fashion. Carol Mcgiffen, ex Radio Broadcaster, expressed her views to dismantle any care of the collections showed and believed them to be "highly outrageous" and would never be worn by anyone "normal" and asked why we should even care. "Who in god's name would wear an umbrella on there head!"

Her co-presenter, Lesley Garrett, soprano singer, argued that the show is 'a show' "it's fun, lively and no one takes it so seriously". She said that she would wear some of the items "toned down obviously" and believes that fashion is a big part of every ones life.

I agree with the soprano and think that fashion whether some would like to admit it shapes society. What we wear all comes from the catwalks of these fabulous designers just re-created to believe that they are not.

For instant cashmere cardigans were first known on the runway of the 70's as the newest thing, now everyone owns a cardy and thinks it's a part of their staple wardrobe with no art involved where as they were created with a pencil and a sketch pad just like the rest of the collections.

Keep on bringing us fabulous fashion, after all it's something to talk about if not to love.