Paris Fashion Week A/W 2011: Womenswear

Moncler Gamme Rouge

If there is another fashion house making outerwear just as original, covetable and cool as Moncler, then we don't know about it. Though it's the classic puffer jacket stamped with a small round sleeve-patch that has become the iconic item of the Italian-owned brand, the real female gravitas happens with the Gamme Rouge collection designed by Giambattista Valli. This season, Valli played with a longer, slimmer silhouette in the trademark puffers, which he broke up with two-tone blocking. There was also a magnificent, muted leopard print coat with fur collar, a dash of astrakhan, and even neon yellow fur coats for those channelling Keith Haring. For evening, cropped puffers were proposed with full-length evening gowns - the perfect synthesis of chalet après-ski merging with cocktail hour.