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New York - For anyone that thinks that Harry Potter is getting to be old news, the excitement at the New York premiere on Thursday night, July 9, proves that he's one wizard that is still beloved by fans, even after all these years.

Paris - Poetry was an apt way to describe the fall 2009 runway show from the house of Valentino, an elegant visual dissertation on the art of haute couture on Wednesday, July 8, in Paris.

Paris - Lights, camera, Gaultier! French fashion's enfant terrible Jean Paul Gaultier found it, at the movies with a fall 2009 haute couture collection on Wednesday, July 8, inspired throughout by cinema.

Paris - You cannot fault Riccardo Tisci for consistency. Eleven days after staging a North African inspired menswear show, the couturier re-visited the region again in a stellar Givenchy haute couture show in Paris on Tuesday, July 7.

Paris - Karl Lagerfeld gambled with a whole new silhouette and proportion in Chanel's latest haute couture runway show Tuesday, July 7, and though he came up with some remarkable looks, this heads or tails collection was ultimately not a winner.

Paris - In a couture show that tag teamed as a perfume launch, Giorgio Armani reminded us all that the whole point of couture is to dress the seriously rich with serious class.

Paris - It's perhaps not the greatest compliment one can give John Galliano but it's a revealing one – models probably love to wear his creations more than any other designer, as they did with pride and passion in the Christian Dior haute couture show on Monday, July 6, in Paris.

Berlin - If one had to think of at least one good reason to attend this latest Berlin Fashion Week, it surely was to catch the Saturday, July 4, runway show by Kai Kuhne, a German wild child resident for over a decade in New York, who returned in triumph this weekend.

Berlin - Turns out sky blue is the new black, at least it was at Hugo Boss Orange show on Thursday night, July 2, staged in a funky old factory in Berlin, where every third look had a celestial hue.

Berlin - Mongrels, a favored pet, though not atypically a scruffy one, might seem an odd choice of name for a fashion label, but if the latest collection from Mongrels in Common seen Thursday, July 2, in Berlin is any test, then the progeny looks like being a very fine breed.