Ninja survivalist fashion from Marine Serre, in a wonderful video shot in giant clouds of mist and never-ending space and featuring many characters of indeterminate sex. Paris Fashion Week never ceases to surprise.

Good to see Christelle Kocher back to doing what she does best – blending athletic sportswear with French street couture in an outdoor show at the Buttes-Chaumant, a fantastic park in northeastern Paris.

A country picnic for Philosophy, marine explorations for Versace and puppets for Moschino. On Saturday, designers filled the catwalks with energy and good cheer in their post-lockdown shows.

One felt a little like genuflecting entering the stage set of Christian Dior on Tuesday, when the house’s designer Maria Grazia Chiuri staged her latest feminist fashion opus, set in a concept-art cathedral.

The weather gods were cruel Coperni this season, but the creative muses were far kinder, as the French duo staged an excellent collection on the roof of Montparnasse Tower – the first live runway show of Paris Fashion Week .

The Rome-based fashion brand brought Milan Fashion Week to a close with a beautiful runway showcasing a simultaneously laid-back and understated attitude condensed into an affirmative collection. 

Paris Fashion Week opened with an entirely digital Monday, as a half-dozen designers, many of them making their French debuts, kicked off the runway season here in the capital.

One cannot fault Dunhill’s designer Mark Weston for lack of ambition. He paired very disparate cultures and concepts in his latest show – from Japanese 90s design to British tailoring to inside out fabrication.

Even before it has opened to the public, LVMH is going to let Louis Vuitton use the new super luxe location of La Samaritaine as the setting for the brand’s next women's ready-to-wear show in Paris.

All about cultural and conceptual diversity in Milan on its final Sunday afternoon, at three very contrasting shows, albeit by two brands with similar names – MSGM and MM6 – and a third with uber wide-ranging origins.

Few designers have had as remarkable a career as Giorgio Armani. His unique fashion history was the subject of a hagiographic video that preceded the presentation of the latest collection by Italy's most famous designer.

Marni went on fashion’s biggest long-distance video adventure this season, with a live online show on Friday afternoon that rambled around eight cities and four continents.

Finally, after many a season, the Tod’s gal that looks, well, pretty cool, with designer Walter Chiapponi's new primordial-yet-posh approach.

At Milan Fashion Week, Simona Marziali, Calcaterra, Fendi and N°21 have honoured Italian design excellence with sophisticated, high-quality collections embodying a simple, almost minimalist beauty, and a summery mood.

Few new brands are quite so out there in Milan these days as GCDS, a reverse immigrant story, that staged what it termed an “electronic bonanza,” to round off Thursday night’s action in Milan Fashion Week.