Lacroix staged its 20th anniversary show at this year's Paris Fashion Week. Lacroix's vision was to recapture the quintessence of women, the elegance that dazzled his childhood fantasies. His return to boyhood, produced a collection inspired by the fashion of the era - big hair and big hats.

Christian Lacroix - 20 years in the business. He presented a sumptuous collection that swathed the body in folds of rich velvet or puffs of feather light chiffon. Let's take a look at some of the highlights of each throught CCTV.com.

Models with hair mounted in huge coifs paraded in coats embellished with ethnic detail like silver studs, rustic embroidery and monkey hair trim.

Lacroix's vision was to recapture the quintessence of women, the elegance that dazzled his childhood fantasies. His return to boyhood, produced a collection inspired by the fashion of the era - big hair and big hats.

Karl Lagerfeld's Haute Couture display for Chanel on Tuesday should have been pure poetry amid a bucolic country estate that was home to Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte. But pluvial seemed more fitting than bucolic, as rain threatened and models paraded under an already dripping awning.

The collection featured sequined shifts with full sleeves attached to the side of the body like tufted and feathered wings.