After the Milan shows are over, do you have this image of designers scrambling to dig through the archives for ideas and inspiration? Save for a few houses who still went for a more daring route (Versace, Bottega), it’s another season of calming down and re-thinking the old roots.

At Moschino, Rosella Jardini revived a bit of Franco’s eccentricity, something that he was famous for— poking fun at Chanel.

In his time, Franco created the infamous t-shirt that has a television set and read ‘Channel No.5″ (LOL) and mocked fashion classics such as the Chanel jacket with garish trimmings and details. There are a handful of skirt-suits in the Fall’10 collection that reminds me of Moschino’s past, especially this one which has earrings as trimmings, and the overload of gold that is so anti-Chanel, almost tacky, but then, it’s meant to be fun in the Italian spirit.

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Maybe the days where zombie like stick thin models at Prada are gone, for now. The Fall ‘10 show is especially womanly (no better word). The casting of not one but three Victoria’s Secret Angels (Alessandra Ambrosio, Doutzen Kroes and Miranda Kerr), plus The Lara Stone and two top italian models Bianca Balti and Mariacarla Boscono, is a far cry from previous seasons’. It’s like pulling a Givenchy, but a whole lot more. The shape of the dresses, together with the explosion of ruffles at the bust area even make stick thin models look curvy. Some of the fabrics (patent, knit) and the coats look like they came straight out of the mens collection, but it’s the printed dresses that will probably be the hot sellers, and flood every magazine publication in no time.