Couture week, that four-day period when editors descend on Paris to venerate the fiction that enough people still buy $80,000 dresses to justify the expense and bother and fabulousness of the proceedings, is over. How'd everyone do?

John Galliano, at the helm of Christian Dior, went gardening. Enormous, brightly-colored skirts blossomed out of little bodices, the models' hair was styled to look like bulbs, and many wore Stephen Jones hats that looked like cones of cellophane. The general effect was of a parade of flowers, each turned upside down and ruffled up a bit.