Super Models! Paris gets all Comic-Con with their show packages. Iselin, Vlade, Hanne Gaby, and Iris will save the world from evil henchmen! {Fashionologie}

Panty Raid: Eric Wilson’s number three trend of NYFW, Spanx. Well, really briefs, outside the clothes. Linda Wells finds it “perfectly insane”. We’ll respectfully agree to disagree. {NY Times}

To Milan They Go: Apparently it’s sweltering, but Mr. Armani really brought the goods to kick things off. Think flouncy dresses and lots of flats. And then came the D&G cowgirls. Yee-haw! {Joe Zee’s Twitter}

Hair God: Bumble’s Jimmy Paul is often the person behind the runway’s coolest hairstyles. You’ve probably copied something he created more than once. Here’s how he spent NYFW. {Vogue Daily}

Come September, Burberry will be showing its S/S ‘10 Prorsum collection back in Blighty, instead of their usual showing in Milan.

We couldn’t be more excited since we don’t usually make the trip to Italy and missing this show is one of the reasons that is a major bummer.

The brand is coming home to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of London Fashion Week. Designer Christopher Bailey told WWD, “We are incredibly proud of our Britishness and this is really a wonderful opportunity to celebrate that in our home city.”

Stay tuned for more Bailey news as he’s coming to NYC this week for the lighting of the Burberry sign atop their new US headquarters and we’ll be having a lovely little chat with him.

Anything you’re dying to know?

Aside from the pajama inspiration at Dolce & Gabbana, there seemed to be something else a little off, like say, the fact that a number of models were missing their pants. We know everybody’s been saying Spring 09’s all about showing your body off, but the lack of bottom garments really takes the cake.

Especially in Milan, hot pants seemed to be Most Popular, winning over skirts / pants / dresses. This is like the bottom version of the bra-top - cool, interesting, but so unlikely to be worn in the streets, we’ll be surprised if these ever hit the racks (outside of the lingerie department).

You could:

1. Wear leggings underneath, or if you’re more prone to the Edie look- sheer to opaque stockings.

2. Wear a longer, butt-covering blazer / vest / sweater over them.

3. Wear it to a beach party (go-go moves not included).

Reasons it may not work: Too many to list.

-ALEXANDRA BEN-GURION

Morning -

Did anyone else notice that Freja wasn’t in yesterday’s Gucci show?

Excluding Resort, she hasn’t missed walking Gucci since Fall 05, having stomped for the Italian house for the past six regular seasons in a row, opening the show twice. She’s practically a Gucci mascot (but second to Natasha Poly, of course), so her absence on roll call is definitely a surprise.

In fact, Freja’s only walked a few shows in Milan so far, but that’s still more than Catherine McNeil, who’s been entirely absent from Fashion Week since her walk at Tommy.

Is somebody kidnapping the good models one by one? Because that would make staring at Zara-esque wares a lot less interesting…

“They arrived back at Newark at 1 a.m., but sans luggage. For fashion people, that’s worse than sitting on the runway for four hours without any snacks.” - Style.com’s Nicole Phelps, on the Continental flight that kept this morning’s front rows in Milan a little empty.

This just in from Milan:

According to a hospitalized eye-witness at the Tom Ford party in Italy, one of the spotlights came crashing down at the bash, landing square on the head of a former male model.

He was shipped to l’ospedale, informed he needed stitches, and given some really good painkillers.

Meanwhile, according to the boy with the split skull, Tom’s “people” phoned him the next morning to ask how he was doing, saying Tom wanted to know.

If it were us, we would have responded, “Well, we’d be feeling a lot better if we could star in your next ad campaign,” but you know, that could just be our massive headache talking.

We send a big Get Well Soon to the wounded party, and also to the PR team in charge of the fête.

We all know Miuccia Prada is really into art and Rem Koolhaas, and now she’s bringing her two loves even closer together in her hometown.

The Prada Foundation just bought an exhibition space in the south of Milan to be turned into a museum, (design by Prada-stores architect Koolhaas), within the next three or four years.

There’s going to be a full story on it in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, in which Miuccia explains that, “art is more or less [her] second career.”

The space is meant to be not just a museum, but a “cultural center” with room for Miuccia’s “collection” to be on view.

Could this be the future venue for Prada AW12? (God that looks weird.)

Maybe Sasha can donate some of her drawings, then it would really be an art/fashion collision…