Gucci designer, Frida Giannini, staged a Russian Revolution at Milan Fashion Week, complete with carpeted runways that matched the collection.

Her aim was to combine the bohemian mood of Paris at the turn of the century when Russian émigrés transformed the arts and theatrical scene, with the kind of 'boho chic' in vogue when The Stones recorded 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)'.

Roberto Cavalli took a don't-mess-with-a-good-thing approach to his Just Cavalli collection. His seventies-inflected signature show for Spring received rave reviews, so why not revisit the decade at his little-sister line for Fall? Of course, the labels have different target audiences—Just Cavalli's could be described as teenagers with trust funds—so the references were no longer esoteric, but obvious: Janis Joplin crossed with Mick Jagger at Alta ...