PARIS–On Vanessa Bruno‘s fall runway at the Palais de Tokyo, it looked like models had run through clotheslines hung with fresh white linens, but, you know, stylishly. So that squares of cream and white were draped and smocked and twisted as tops and were pieced together as delicate skirts with rag-tag hemlines. Then sturdier, thicker fabrics more suitable for colder months emerged on brocade jackets with no lapels, fastened tight, and on chunky loosely woven knits (a la Rag & Bone) thrown over those drape-y delicate cream pieces. Bruno played with this contrast in texture throughout the collection–mixing lighter than air separates and dresses in a painterly leaf print with heavier jackets, nubby knits, and, my favorite, slouchy wool coats with collars done in fur and knits.

PARIS–In what will likely go down as one of the most drama-filled Paris fashion weeks, Chloe’s Hannah MacGibbon could not escape the designer rumor mill. MacGibbon presented her fall collection for Chloe amidst rumblings that it would be her last for the brand. But this was no shrinking violet, meekly-shuffling-out-the-door kind of collection.

Gone is the minimalist ballerina of last season. Chloe’s fall girl is brash and emboldened with the spirit of the ’70s, she struts in leather track suits and is not afraid to match snake print with snake print. I prefer the ballerina. But this collection should strike a chord with any lady looking to make a statement: hiss.

Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.

PARIS-Despite the male voice’s slow reading of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s Ophélie–a Symbolist sonnet written when Mr. Rimbaud was 17 years old in three parts, describing the fictive lover of Shakepeare’s Hamlet who eventually succumbed to insanity and death by drowning in a river–over the soundtrack the Junya Watanabe show on Saturday morning, the designer’s fall collection is anything but soft poetry.