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.)

• The September issue cover choices are in: Harper's Bazaar chose Jennifer Aniston, Elle nabbed Julia Roberts, and, as predicted, Vogue went with Halle Berry. (Anyone wanna take odds on a "What Gabriel did was very uncool" cover line?)

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]

• Dita Von Teese wears two Elie Saab couture creations in her limited-run Paris show. Is it strange that the only people who can afford couture these days are burlesque artists and Saudi princesses? [IHT]