Celebs at the Valentino Spring 2008 Couture Show at Paris Fashion Week last week included Gossip Girl's Blake Lively who wore one of my favourite white dresses from Valentino's Spring 2008 RTW Collection, Eva Herzigova also in a little white dress with cropped black jacket and Eva LaRue who wore a black high-waisted skirt and a gorgeous white ruffle blouse.

There were skirt suits aplenty with pencil skirts and flared skirts, swing jackets and belted jackets, in pastels and florals, but all with cropped sleeves.

The coats were feminine and sleek in bright all over colours with minimal details.

Florals were a big theme from prints to embroidery. The floral dresses were very ladylike especially teamed with elbow length gloves.

There were also lots of pretty cream and beige dresses in sleek sexy styles with plunging necklines and ruffles.

Shoes were mostly silver courts.

There were black dresses, white dresses and black and white dresses galore! Monochrome glam.

White fishnet tights were a big trend as were slicked bakc hairdos with oversized earrings.

There were very feminine gowns, my favourite being the floral, chiffon off-the-shoulder number (above left) which was figure hugging yet soft.

Shiny fabrics were also used a lot in the Valentino gowns in pastel colours like lilac, green and pink.

Some of the gowns has sleek, straight sillhouettes and incorporated beading as well as silver and gold metallics.

They mostly had fitted bodices and layered or curve skimming skirts.

And the show ended with classic Valentino white gowns.

There were many styles including a trendy one shoulder number and a gown with a plunging neckline, cropped sleeves and a silver bow around the waist.

My favourite however was modelled by Chanel Iman and was a beautiful strappy lace number with chiffon panels wrapped all around.

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If you love gowns and dresses the Elie Saab Spring 2008 Couture Show at Paris Fashion Week last week was the place to be! And that's exactly where Dita Von Teese was in her glamorous red dress and satin red shoes, where Eva LaRue was in a high waisted black skirt and satin purple top and where Melissa Theuriau showed up a little underdressed in jeans and a black velvet jacket.

Each woman however, embodied the luxury of Elie Saab!

Pencil skirt shapes continued to dominate but now with metallic silver beading and matching blazers or chiffon blouses.

Hair was worn in high chignon's on top of the head.

As with the other runway shows, strapless dresses were popular, mostly seen in whites and silvers.

Most of the models wore black peep toes with gold trim.

Soft feminine shaped dresses with plunging v-necks and floaty skirts were also a trend.

It should also be noted that Elie Saab opted out of any jewelry or accessories and instead let the clothes take centre stage.

As I've mentioned before, matching seems to be the new clashing in fashion and so Elie Saab matched some of their strapless pencil dressed with coordinated cropped cardigans for a prim and proper look.

The largest collection of peices on the Elie Saab Couture runway however had to be the gowns! There were so many to choose from!

There were the metallic sheen gowns with the high slits at the front of the dress showing off the leg...

Then there were the yellow chiffon gowns each with silver detailing and a varitey of different necklines from strapless to one-strap.

Bright coloured gowns could also be seen in pink and blue and again strapless had to be the biggest trend.

Each gown was cut simply but with a distinguishing feature such as a feathered neckline or silver embrodiery.

The metallic beaded gowns were reminiscent of the flapper era and were worn in sleek silhouettes.

And finally were the beautiful white gowns that came at the end of the collection. Each had the silver embroidery that was the common thread through this collection but style's varied.

I loved the strapless peasant style gown with floaty skirt (above right) and the sleek sexy strapless gown (above middle).

But my favourite has to be the dramatic one-shoulder white gown with structured bodice and full chiffon skirt (above left).

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