For today's Trend de la Creme for Coutorture comparison, haute couture is given a funny likeness. The Joseph Font Fall 08 Couture show was full of billowing silhouettes and bright colors. Apparently this was a red flag in the mind of our brilliant Network Partner, Trend de la Creme, for she saw an immediate connection to mysterious invertebrates. This is not the first time such a comparison has been made, in fact, our Network Partner saw a likeness in Plankton and in Invertebrates once before. It's quite amazing how she does it, and what we enjoy most about the comparison is that it seems to shed some light on the aesthetic properties of the look. Suddenly that yellow frock looks like a living, breathing organism that's miraculously landed above ground for a Parisian fashion show. At the end of July, when news is slow (alas, fashion week is just around the corner), this vantage point is a breath of fresh air.

To our network partner, Trend de la Creme, Christopher Kane's Fall 08 collection left her thinking of, well, jellyfish. The collection was shown as part of London Fashion Week and was both criticized and acclaimed for lacking one accessible concept. Fall 08 was Kane's fourth collection and the range let not one look scoot down the runway without some interesting detail or stimulating silhouette. This is, perhaps, what left everyone so perplexed. The handsome Christopher Kane gave his audience 'information overload' and not in the Heatherette way. That is, whether it was an experiment in color, texture, length, or volume, every single garment was dynamic and (dare we say it) new. One key similarity, which Trendinista poignantly picked up on, was that of an undulating texture by way of layering. Her first thought was of invertebrates and the comparisons are, as always, uncanny.