Ok, everyone, time to start cheerfully consorting with woodland creatures in the hopes that a passing spirit will reward the pureness of your heart: Harrods and Disney will auction off ten Disney princess-inspired dresses designed by some of the world's most revered fashion houses, including Versace, Oscar de la…

If you want to channel Katherine Parker (ALL HAIL THE QUEEN) or Naomi Campbell, this is the collection for you. Elie Saab's Autumn/Winter 2013-14 is agressive, sexy, and shows the empowered side of femininity. Saab features impeccable tailoring, incredible lace work, and very slim silhouettes with natural waists…

The Elie Saab haute couture show presented yesterday in Paris was classically feminine, ridiculously romantic and breathtakingly beautiful. Your inner Grace Kelly will find the soft colors, delicate details and sweet silhouettes downright dreamy.

Nilina Mason-Campbell ran around Paris to get a fresh look at couture. Not the runway-shot, brand-manicured take we always get. The street-skulking, exhilarating flash-and-grab honesty of the perennial non-ticket-holder! (It's not our fault we don't know any PRs in Paris.)

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?

Elie Saab, with his ornate, heavily draped and embellished gowns, is a red-carpet perennial. So we did the work for Hollywood and assigned the looks to the appropriate star:

[Paris, January 27. Image via Getty]

This is only Lebanese designer (and Halle Berry favorite) Elie Saab's fourth couture collection, but it's a doozy. Fantastical and beautiful and extravagant - you know, couture. In addition to swooning over several of the gowns, I found myself intrigued by the expressive models on parade. I thought to myself, 'If…