Follow Neiman Marcus fashion director Ken Downing on his four-city Fashion Month!

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I love the charming presentations that Bruno puts together for Roger Vivier, using the furniture and the lamps, and all the beautiful decorative elements within a space. And then that whole idea of bringing the garden inside with the mosses and the gorgeous flowers.

Now off to Giambattista Valli to see what, as we refer to him, Giamba, has to show for us on the runway.
Always a very lady-like polish to his collection. A real sense of couture. He actually has an haute couture collection as well as his ready-to-wear collection. So interesting to see what he puts forth for the spring season on this glorious day as we're in Paris.

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Paris continues to love the whole idea of masculine, feminine and that tug of wars always in play here in the city of lights. It's interesting at Giambattista Valli where it was truly all about a very feminine experience at the beginning of the show, with ribbons that were reimported on to organza on beautiful very lady-like dresses or juxtaposing all of that with the tropical-weight, pale gray suiting. Masculine on one girl, super feminine on the next, masculine on the one girl, super feminine on the next.

But beautiful collection. I loved all the idea of white on white, which we are seeing everywhere this season, and those bright pops of red.

He is such a sweet man. It was great to see him backstage.