Alexis Mabille

From "Prettiest Overall" to "Best Bedazzled Lower Leg."

Some are more out-there than others, but what would you expect? It's couture!

From astrakhan fur to the swinging '60s, here are 19 of the best trends of the fall 2014 season.

Here comes the bride(s)...

Are you digging out your old plastic butterfly clips now or... now?

If you were looking for an excuse to book a trip to Paris this holiday season, here's a great one: French department store Monoprix is offering designer dresses for under $125.

Four cities, one season: Fall 2013. Nemo kicked the collections off and every city to follow added its own dose of wintry chill. Somehow all that cold weather caused a discernible note of restraint to float through the collections. Don’t worry--the passion and excitement were still there, but designers actively pursued defining new ways we can really dress next fall. These looks felt grounded in the return of the “Lady," as fashion’s pendulum swung away from the risqué, toward the refreshingly refined (spike-studded shoulders be damned). Check out our top trends for fall in the slide show.

Thank goodness designers are finding plenty of ways to play with the animal print.

Now comes the fun part! After a long night of staying up way way past our bedtimes laughing, crying, singing, and yawning along with the 85th annual Academy Awards, we've scoured the far reaches of Getty Images to bring you our picks for best and worst dressed.

Unlike Juicy Couture or Zahia Dehar's 'couture' lingerie line, Maison Martin Margiela and Alexis Mabille can now, in good faith, call their couture lines haute couture.

All the glamour of the Paris shows. All the comfort of your sweat pants.

Barbie may be the go-to popular plastic doll for fashion collaborations in the U.S., but in Paris next week, it's going to be all about Strawberry Shortcake, or Charlotte aux Fraises, as she's known in the city of lights.

Paris couture week is officially over. In case you were too focused on Raf Simons' and Kimye's couture debuts to take everything in, those dilligent couturiers showed some pretty great collections. Nothing compares to couture, a thriving and important part of the fashion industry. The fall 2012 collections were full of so much delicate, restrained gorgeousness it was tough to pick our favorites (especially when it came to Dior and Valentino), but we did our best. So, click through for one last look (well, until all the celebs start wearing them) at the 25 dresses we found ourselves gawking at--in a good way.

We look forward to the couture collections for so many reasons--the pure fantasy of it all, the exquisite details, and of course, the often equally as fantastical beauty looks. We've already broken down the gorgeous looks at Chanel (left), but here's a look at the rest of the collections. From elaborate hair accessories to full-face makeup, click through for our favorite beauty looks from the spring 2012 couture collections.