Several new journals, and a recent visit to a great little magazine shop in Berlin, again make us think we are entering a different age of print.

The Paris couture shows have been scaled back, but they still send a message: lots of color is the new black.

Before Jean Paul Gaultier’s show this afternoon, I popped backstage to say hello and absorb a little madness - I mean, direction.

I loved Willy Vanderperre’s somber group portrait of models in Riccardo Tisci’s fall couture collection for Givenchy.

Chanel’s red satin dress. Other looks include embroidered dresses in an amazing range of tapestry patterns.