St. John presented a more streamlined and sleek spring collection.

Floral and leaf prints, easy silhouettes and soft fabrics called to mind garden parties and picnics.

Designer Mari Odaka showed a strong offering of unique knitwear mixed with other, contrasting textures.

Bold colors and contrasting textures mixed with sporty influences.

The designer added texture to simple textiles through creative pattern cutting, and created movement through diagonal lines.

What the collection lacked in originality, its designer tried to make up for with gimmicks.

Pastels and sheer fabrics were mixed with edgy knits and men’s wear influences, but the collection lacked consistency.

A conceptual show laid the backdrop for a tight collection of androgynous looks.

The newcomer showed feminine dresses in delicate, pastel textiles.

The designer seemed tired with churning out the same old Parisian ideal, and instead opted for creased linen and Seventies printed shirts.

The signature inventiveness of Junichi Abe, an experienced patternmaker, was in fine form.

A black leather trenchcoat was made to mirror the anatomy of the stag beetle with mini leather horns on the sleeves.

The Ukrainian designer gave religious iconography a pop-culture spin by printing tiny Madonnas on simple cotton t-shirts.

Nicolas Ghesquière tapped into his obsessions with sci-fi imagery and garment construction with a collection designed to empower women.

Anaïs Mak showed her body-conscious dresses and a cat made of Swarovski crystals in a Paris nightclub.