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.

Joseph Font's haute couture collection helped us complete our trilogy of DIY hosiery ideas. The first we picked up from our Network Partner, Style Bubble, who cut carefully spaced holes into a pair of tights as she saw them in a shop window. A few days later we saw Network Partner, The Coveted, dip dyed her tights so that they resembled those seen in the Christian Lacroix haute couture runway show. And now we've come up with our own idea for runway-worth hosiery you can whip up at home--the Joseph Font way. Perhaps those printed tights you've stocked up on over the season's are sitting in a pile in one drawer or another and have yet to be realized as having DIY potential. After all, they've already so much going on. Well, whip out that glue gun and go to town. In Font's show, floral patterns were made couture by way of same-color stones. The result is intense eye candy, the kind that might just make passersby feel like they've taken hallucinogenic drugs. That's what fashion is for, right?! These tights are pretty wild but we're sure a couture-loving chicster or two will be up for the challenge. We can already imagine them worn with jean cut-offs and black Doc Martins. How nineties would that be?