I'll take the 50's and 60's for $200 Alex...

If fashions your game, retro is the name...at least for many of the most recent fall/winter shows in Paris (and Prada if you came from Milan).  Designers have been sending silhouettes down the runways inspired from the technicolor decades from A-line skirts to boxy jackets.  The shows are styled with belted sweaters or cardigans, and fabulous bouffant or perfectly teased hair straight out of the Brigitte Bardot handbook.  Whatever the look, the message is fun, polished and feminine.   

The Giles Deacon show on March 3 played with pop art clouds on everything from bags, and hemlines to the actual runway.  Over at Rochas, which showed on the same day, the collection used a multitude of pastels and sought it's inspiration from the 1969 film "Cactus Flower" starring Goldie Hawn - perfectly placed for 60's inspiration.  The mood at Prada was slightly more serious, coined "Librarian Chic", using heavier knits and subdued colors but they didn't miss out on the fun with ruffled stockings and cat-eye glasses with (hold for dramatic pause)...eyebrows!

Enjoy!

Giles Deacon...

Rochas...

Giambattista Valli...

Prada's "librarian chic"...

fashion images from WWD...cartoon from bewitched opening credits