The eyes of the fashion world have moved to France, as Paris Fashion Week kicks off.<br/> <br />After wowing fashionistas last season with a show at the Eiffel Tower - Portuguese designer, Fatima Lopes chose to show her collection at the French Army Museum.<br/> <br />She started the Autumn/ Winter ranges on display in the city with a show dedicated to morphology, the biological study of the changing shape and structure of the body.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) PORTUGUESE DESIGNER FATIMA LOPES, SAYING:<br/> <br />"The whole collection is inspired on the human body. The printings are outside and inside the body I've created for the show. And I tried to use degrade (English: degradation) of colours of the red blood and Bordeaux red and different colours of red, nude and black."<br/> <br />Speaking there before the start of her show, to create her look Lopes used fabrics like leather and fox which acted as a second skin.<br/> <br />She also played with proportions such as jackets which were either enlarged or shrunk to emphasize the female form.<br/> <br />Paris Fashion Week is the culmination of the bi-annual fashion events which take place in New York, London and Milan.<br/> <br />There's much more to come too, watch this space for shows by: Chanel, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, to name but a few.<br/> <br />Sarah Mills, Reuters.
