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as the collection progressed.pply and the “high-waisted anything with a crop top” look is one of the most popular — and most flattering! Olivia Munn is a master of this trend and Spring Breakers star Vanessa Hudgens joined in on the fun in Italy, too! If your style is more conservative, a longer flowing skirt is the way to go and can really balance out the ensemble. While the trend is so sexy for a hot summer day or a cool Discount Guccisummer night, you can easily bring it into fall. Pair a crop top with a high-waisted leather skirt and tights and layer a cropped jacket or blazer over the look if you want to rock it in cooler weather. You can also pair the top with a pair of fall or winter shorts in tweed or wool. A series of black and white optical coats with cinched waists gave way to an abstract, sporty vibe in ultra mini patterned crop tops and some bouncy angular skirts in white.

 The best looks seemed to channel tribal African  Chanel bagthat's big this season, with a strapless column dress with red and black horizontal stripes. woman who founded the label, Coco Chanel. Received enthusiastically by critics on its release, and billed as "Chanel on Chanel," the book goes inside the designer's mind - and this reworked version has been well-received by the house of Chanel. Morand - who wrote the book when he met Chanel in a hotel in St Moritz in 1946, where she shared her philosophies and stories with him - was a close friend of the designer and writes from a privileged position within her inner circle. The book hears Chanel's own thoughts on everything from her greatest loves, to her most famous creations - and as you might expect from expect from the fiery innovator, she doesn't hold back her opinions.

 It cut an unusual silhouette with a large black feathered peplum. VALENTINO Valentino put its typical Italian aristocratic look on hold this season to channel Balkan-style ethnic patterns. It was clear from the  Chanel 2.55 bagdiscordant musical mix — which flitted between arias from Puccini's Tosca to syncopated contemporary bass beats — that designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were determined to try something new. With a clean white shirt and a couple of pairs of shorts, it felt like the designers were trying to loosen up their silhouette a bit to show some street cred. But the show was dominated by patterns such as vivid blue-and-yellow lines and oval shapes on full skirts with dense, Eastern decorative patterns in dull browns and greens. It meant that the austere feel of their previous ready-to-wear collections remained in Tuesday's show, heightened by the silhouettes' high necks and thick fabrics.