Apocalypse now

Chanel's stern women had dressed in a hurry to escape who knows what sort of ashen situation this season. Layered clothes, jackets sewn in to one another, quilted fabrics, these girls (and a couple of guys) were not hanging around to make small talk.

Many of the shows this season had a fin de siecle feel about them be it war or some other disaster the future has yet to reveal, and it's safe to say we're experiencing enough of both just now.

Great fashion designers have always been able to distill our consciousness in to clothes and from the images I've seen recently there may be trouble ahead.