Summary: VOGUE.COM reports from Paris Fashion Week as the city at the heart of fashion rolls out shows from Christian Dior, Maison Martin Margiela and Vivienne Westwood. Editor Dolly Jones wonders whether John Galliano has pre-empted the criticism of previous years by showing a collection a lot tamer than what the front row have begun to expect from the London-trained designer. The Evening Standard’s fashion editor, Gianluca Longo, talks to us about the precious skins and fun, flesh-baring lengths at Dior. And Sicilian-born, UK-bred and trained designer, Antonio Berardi, talks to us before his show about the “immigrant child’s romantic vision of Sicilian women” that inspired his spring/summer 2009 collection.
