Eli Saab Fall Winter 2008

Elie Saab's bread-and-butter is red-carpet clothes. But watching his show didn't conjure the glamour of celebrity so much as it did the tyranny of celebrity magazines, the trashy must-reads in which the stars' wardrobe choices are more often lambasted than cheered. Why? Because, in a risk-averse collection, the personality had been all but removed from the majority of Saab's gowns. Or maybe it was the sheer variety that numbed.