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The Japanese designer trumpeted a preppy, polished guise for spring via a plethora of summery suits.

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The season’s major themes—rich color, super-light tailoring and long summer coats – looked thoroughly at home in this dreamy spring show.

The designer used the ultimate basic — the humble T-shirt — as the main prop for a collection that was all about deformalizing men’s wear staples.

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The exclusive collection will be debut at Jockey stores and jockey.com this month and will be rolled out in October to major retailers.

The church incense and organ music that preceded the show set the mood for Riccardo Tisci’s communion theme.

Rei Kawakubo sent an army of dressed-down punks stomping out onto her spring runway.

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Bill Gaytten played with dense floral embroideries, and playful prints depicting oversized shells or cloudy skies à la Magritte.

Athletes performed handstands and backflips at the soaring Maison du Judo venue.

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A party closed the brand’s presentation, in which a single model spent three days boxed into the window of a gallery in Paris’ Marais district.

The brand’s collection was shown on one model over 60 hours.

Humberto Leon and Carol Lim took their cues from the Jungle Jap boutique that put the brand on the map in Paris in the Seventies.

The military theme Kris Van Assche marched out last fall tilted naval for spring, and everything was shipshape chic.

Sharon Stone, Karl Lagerfeld and Huang Xiaoming attended the Paris show.

The collection was aimed at the kind of guy who wears a T-shirt with faded retro graphics with his deconstructed gray suit to work.

The cult cobbler-turned luxury lifestyle player took over the picturesque Palais Royal gardens to present its second men’s ready-to-wear collection.

Designer Veronique Nichanian sent out a plethora of sporty silhouettes in unexpected fabrics.

There were great boxy T-shirts, classic jackets with billowing backs, a ska-style black shirt with a neon front, and glam suits in glimmering silver.

Models wore everything from broad-shouldered suits in Prince of Wales check to crushed velvet jumpsuits and Latex bomber jackets sprouting rubber tubes.

A relaxed elegance defined every product category.

This graphic, minimalist collection — mostly black and white — had just the right doses of cool and utility.

Earthy colors, beefy fabrics and easy-to-wear cuts underscored the collection’s effortless, masculine personality.

The designer promised ahead of his show that the collection would be “very much about optimism.”

Known for his eccentric shows, the designer did not disappoint, sending shoeless models dipped in silver paint into the garden of the Maison de la Chimie.

The collection looked slick and fresh while remaining very much Versace.

Jessica Alba, Pierce Brosnan, Lea Michele and Christina Hendricks were among the star-studded guests at the couture show.

The debut campaign, showcasing the fall collection, is to be unveiled on Tuesday on balenciaga.com and break in September issues of magazines.

The scent, called Eros, is slated for introduction in the fall.

Sipping an iced tea, model-cum-musician Jamie Bochert was among the early arrivals at the show on Sunday morning.

Luxury executives foresee a sunny 2012, with an influx of new couture clients from Asia offering a promising growth avenue for the future.

On Saturday morning, Farida Khelfa led a tour of the sumptuous and whimsical new salons on the Place Vendôme in Paris.

The beauty firm is known for the company it keeps and pays handsomely to sell celebrity-branded products.

The Brazilian-born model will appear in fall television ads for the contemporary brand and a print campaign that breaks in September magazines.

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Athletic influences met with luxurious fabrics on the runways of Paris.