FashionEtc.com January 20th, 2026

As the soundtrack opened with galloping hooves and the lighting raced around in circles like a Grand National above the audience's heads, you knew Riccardo Tisci was on an equestrian trip for Fall 2012.

The presentation of just twenty-six looks was concise, but allowed arguably more variety than Philo's usual catwalk presentations, razor-honed as they are on a clutch of ideas worked to the fullest.

Celebration. That's what Alber Elbaz's rip-roaring Fall 2012 Lanvin show was all about. A celebration of his ten years at the helm of the house, for starters; a celebration of his distinct, defined style in dressing modern women too, but most of all a pure celebration of women, period.

Fall 2012 offered the Haider Ackermann woman something new—a sense of how she would dress for the everyday, and the modern everyday at that.