Designers in Paris played with off-the-shoulder looks for the fall 2016 season — sometimes exposing skin, sometimes layered. Either way, it was an engagingly relaxed effect.

The Paris runways showed that perennial favorite, the floral motif, in a variety of moods, from the familiar folkloric and romantic to sexy and even edgy.

Nothing announces the Eighties like a bold shoulder on a sharply tailored coat.

For fall 2016, designers made a statement by taking a neutral tone.

Velvet shed its formal reputation on the Paris runway, as designers gave it various guises — baroque, sporty, dandy and even street edge.

Marianna Rosati took her leather label Drome to an imaginary underground nightclub full of intriguing motifs, colors and shapes.

Carrying over the Eighties “Dallas” references from her pre-fall offering, Veronique Leroy spiced up her runway with glitzy touches of gold leather and a quirky photo print of sport cars.

This charming collection nodded to the Seventies, and a Nordic aesthetic.

In her second runway show for Wanda Nylon, designer Johanna Senyk struck an underground vibe by rendering street wear staples in her signature waterproof fabrics.

Old and young, conservative and rebellious, baroque and minimalist — the extremes played out beautifully on London’s fall runways.

Designers share the motivations behind their collections for fall, as they prepare to present in the French capital.

Tuomas Merikoski’s Aalto collections always draw inspiration from youth culture in his native Finland.

Here are a few fresh faces to keep an eye on during the season.

For fall-winter, Margaret Howell slightly changed some of her proportions, with her classic tailored jackets boxy and short and her mannish pants cropped like boyish shorts.

John Galliano pre-fall was essentially the women’s parallel to the fall men’s collection.