celine: a/w 11

Drawing on the rich interiors and plush detailing of the luxury automobile, Phoebe Philo has designed another collection based on understated elegance. Whereas last season's Celine girl was a bit more fun and funky, here we see a focus on maturity and super luxe. Clean lines and classic cuts are broken up by chevrons, stripes and leather detailing. Colors are very autumnal with shades of brown, beige, mahogany and terracota stealing the show. This collection will complement Joseph beautifully and can also be styled with tailored pieces from Stella and the Row.

View the full collection here.

new in: bouchra jarrar

Born in Cannes to Moroccan parents, Bouchra Jarrar learned to sew from a very young age by copying her mother and at the age of 12 she already knew how to work a sewing machine. However it wasn't until much later that she developed a love of fashion from flicking through books and magazines and finally decided to follow a career in design. In 1991, she enrolled at the ecole Superieure des Arts Appliques de Duperre in Paris.

In 1996, Jarrar was appointed as Balmain's Director of Studio, a post that she held until 2006 when she took up a job alongside Christian Lacroix whose work she had admired for a long time. When the brand went bankrupt not long after, Jarrar decided that it was time to bite the bullet and launch her own fashion house. A year later, her debut collection was such a success that Bouchra Jarrar had well and truly established herself as a designer to watch.

"I'm fascinated by asymmetry," said Bouchra Jarrar after her show in Paris in January 2011. "I'm looking for the harmony in asymmetry, because this is life, I think." And what harmonious results her search produced, from the white-piped almost military precision of her first looks, to a final Smoking outfit, sleeveless, and sensually severe. If cut is one measure of a couturier's skill, then the talented, intense Jarrar is one of the most promising new stars in French fashion. Her perfectly tailored trousers- navy piped in white- could become cult objects. And her clean, well thought-out approach to a woman's wardrobe puts her on a Phoebe Philo wavelength. But Jarrar's personal mission to harmonize the irregular added not so much a twist as a slash, like the subtly violent streak of red that intersected an asymmetric square of ivory silk satin, or the cuts that opened the front and back of a black crepe sheath. Something deep is going on here.

Learn more about the brand here.