11.   There is no time line being followed, except the grueling one she sets for herself each season to attempt to go where no designer has gone before.

12.   When bomb designers went out for drinks and dinner, military personnel followed them and listened to their conversations.

13.   When designer Vivienne Tam goes home to Hong Kong, she heads to Hollywood Road for inspiration.

14.   Italian designers are going back to what they do best, dressing women in smart tailored clothes.

15.   Italian designers are going back to the future as they prepare to enter another century.

16.   Some designers went for split skirts.

17.   Where the designers really go to town is in the footwear, with winter sandals, heavy high heels and soft velvet slippers.

18.   All the designers went overboard at the time, but have long since stopped making lycra a focal point.

19.   As one, the designers went overboard on black.

20.   To woo a finicky clientele, the designers have gone back to basics, limiting their experiments to the texture of fabrics and colour schemes.