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

PARIS–On a divided stage–one side covered in red fabrics and the other in black–a model emerged from backstage onto a raised runway inside the Marcel Cerdan at Bercy. The model was in a purple tank dress with a long train that fell to the side and a massive circular top hat with bow. As she came towards the end of the platform, she pulled on the long train that fell to the side, posed, and turned and walked back. These gestures and her long flowing dress recalled memories of past Yohji Yamamoto shows, particularly those held at the Sorbonne in the late 1990’s.

Long Nguyen is the Co-Founder/Style Director of Flaunt.

PARIS–Over the sounds of Argentinian music evoking the atmosphere of a morning in the Gaucho plains, Junya Watanabe sent out a stunning collection of romantic and emotional clothes early Saturday morning. The show started with deep colored lace transparent dresses with black spaghetti strap slips and ended with the most elegant transformation of the trench coat seen on any runway.

But if there were any references to Argentina and its southern mythical plains so romanticized in literature, it was just the coming and going of the Spanish vocals on the soundtrack throughout the show, rather than any literal translation in the clothes.

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

PARIS–The past few years, Sacai, designed by Chitose Abe–an alumnus of Comme des Garçons–has been on an expansion course. Last season’s mini-showings have blossomed into a full runway show this time. Three weeks ago the company opened a flagship store in the Aoyama Minato-ku shopping district of Tokyo about a block down from the Prada mega building. And Sacai menswear is emerging from its underground cult status and has been presented in Paris during the men’s shows.

While Ms. Abe’s signature and innovative work with knits remained the foundation for today’s collection–shown at the back of the Hotel d’Evreux near place Vendome–the spring clothes indicate an evolution in her masterful recombinant techniques marrying one element of a garment to another. This spring collection continued to feature her skilled combinations of different types of fabrics onto one garment and her ability to alter the forms of skirts, dresses, or cardigans–or mixing elements of each–to arrive at a new garment like a dress with a ribbed cotton front.

PARIS–It has been a very long time since I sat through an entire fashion show and afterwards I was still trying to figure out what the designer was really up to. That happened late on Saturday afternoon at the Comme des Garçons show, which was a much different show than the stunning collection presented by Junya Watanabe for his eponymous line earlier in the day.

“White drama” was the theme to this puzzling but absolutely beautiful and meditative show from Comme des Garçons where a model wearing a white duchess satin knee length dress with a puff skirt and a bow that seemed to tie her hands together (not to mention the large headdress) opened the procession. This led to an all-white collection that displayed not only incredible workmanship in tailoring and embroidery with sumptuous coats and short dresses, but a show that stirred varied emotional reactions from the audience.

PARIS–Every editor in the room began to swoon from look one–we all wanted everything. Since Phoebe Philo has taken the helm at Céline, the brand has quickly become the editor and fashion-enthusiast go-to uniform. And every stylist wants to shoot Céline looks and every celeb wants to wear it: what more can a maison ask for? Nothing! Céline is perfect in every way.

This season, Ms. Philo did not disappoint her many fans in the crowd. White and black stark looks sprinkled with jewel tones in ruby and emerald were an image of chic with a dash of girly-ness by way of a flounce panel here and a peplum there. I loved the black leather minimalist motorcycle jacket with the subtle peplum in back. A prediction among my fellow editors in our discussions after the show was that the red and white graphic tops are going to fly off the racks.