The Best Fashion Moments in 2011

From super stylish parties in Cannes to ultra-sexy Victoria's Secret models, FashionTV remembers the greatest fashion moments of 2011.

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This year, FashionTV highlights the style moments that took our breath away and transformed beauties, visions, and inspirations into works of art.

Who can forget Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, and the other sexy girls of Victoria's Secret as they sashayed down the runway for the 2011 fashion show in stunning superhero costumes and sequined disco numbers?

What about Sarah Burton's rise to the top at Alexander McQueen when FashionTV and the rest of the world learned she designed Prince William's bride Kate Middleton's wedding dress? Just a day later, she was being honored as part of the McQueen label by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala!

Fashion shows like Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui in New York, Burberry and Vivienne Westwood in London, Dsquared2 and Roberto Cavalli in Milan, and Prada and Balmain in Paris left us clamoring for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 trends and not just because their front rows were packed withcelebrityandfashion heavyweights.

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The dapper duds of Mad Men met high-fashion on the Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 runway at Paris Fashion Week, where pussy bow blouses, pinstripes, and gloves took center stage in the return of 50s sophisticate trends. Hats, gloves, and retro prints were also imitated in major boutiques.

For haute couture, Elie Saab reigned supreme with his clever composition of beautiful embroidered bodices and frothy feminine gowns. Gucci's Milan Fall 2011 collection was so popular it was seen on Tokyo model Ai Tominaga and actress Jennifer Lopez.

FashionTV partied around the world with the best of them, hitting up bashes like the Flavio Briatore's Billionaire Club during Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo and store openings like the Jean Paul Gaultier concept shop in Ginza, Tokyo, where the designer dressed up as an astronaut. At the celebrity soiree from De Grisogono during the Cannes Film Festival, guests like Bianca Balti, will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas, and Carine Roitfeld made appearances, and FashionTV had the exclusive!

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FashionTV also featured the best fashion photographs with an inside look at major photoshoots like the sexy 13th edition of the Campari Calendar with Milla Jovovich featuring Milla in many sexy costumes and an “end of the world” theme and a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the 2012 Pirelli Calendar with models like Joan Smalls, Lara Stone, and Kate Moss posing nude for fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. Photographer Giuliano Bekor stunned with his photos of model Jessica Perez wearing leopard print for Shape magazine's June 2011 issue.

For fashion, 2011 was full of memorable moments that will last a lifetime. FashionTV wants to relive those moments with you this month!

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Is there something in the water in Hollywood? First Rihanna and now Avril Lavigne has shaved half her head in a new hairstyle reminiscent of a punky glam rocker. She kept the color and length on the other side of her head in the same style. She isn't the only one revamping her look. Charlize Theron has shaved her blond locks for her upcoming movie role in Mad Max: Fury Road. She’s been wearing a beanie or Fedora to cover it up ever since. (Huffington Post)

Karl Lagerfeld is always known for making headlines in fashion, least of which is for his iconic black and white tuxedo look and low ponytail. So it’s no surprise Germany’s St. Pauli Panopticon has opted to preserve the legendary Chanel designer--in wax! The figure features Lagerfeld’s iconic dark sunglasses and black studded gloves. (People)

This isn’t Lagerfeld’s only headline this week. He’s also making headlines for a book of photographs based on Chanel’s Little Black Jacket. The fashion tome is made up of 113 photographs shot by Lagerfeld of models, celebrities, socialites, fashionistas, and personalities styled in the LBJ by former French Vogue Editor-In-Chief Carine Roitfeld. Chanel threw a party to celebrate an exhibit featuring the photos on display from June 8 to June 15. (Harper’s Bazaar)

Maison Martin Margiela is the next high fashion brand to collaborate with H&M! Straight off the heels of the popular team ups with Lanvin, Versace, Roberto Cavalli, and Marni, the popular French has created a collection of timeless, streamlined and wearable pieces debuting on November 15. Will we see MMM fans Michelle Obama or Sarah Jessica Parker in one of these pieces? (Stylelite)

Stella McCartney travels around the world to present her collections, turning up in both England and Paris on occasions. She took to New York to showcase her Resort 2013 presentation, throwing a sweet summer party in a garden for the occasion. Besides gorgeous clothes, the event attracted a bevy of beauties like Anne Hathaway, Amy Poehler and Solange Knowles. (Fabsugar)

Israeli clothing giant, Castro, recently presented their new Fall/Winter collection for 2012-2013. FashionTV was front and center at the show in Tel Aviv, which calls for a colorful, stylish, and dramatic Fall/Winter season.

This year's collection is inspired by nostalgic fantasy across time and continents, from old fashioned European ski trips, Agatha Christie novels, and the style from 90’s television show ‘Twin Peaks’ to historical gothic era of medieval times.

Castro’s headlining model and spokesperson is popular Israeli model/actress Gal Gadot, who has appeared alongside Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in the Fast & Furious movies. Gadot, opened the show in a double-breasted brown trench coat along with sexy knee high boots. She was joined by Castro’s male headliner Yonatan Wegman.

Castro’s new winter collection is a brilliant combination of mystery and travel. Inspiration came from Eastern European heritage and folklore along with some gothic history. The result is a winter collection full of presence, rich textures, wool coats and dip effect. The collection is accompanied by touches of gold elements, specifically on military uniform coats and wool pants.

Additional fabrics such as nylon was in presence, designed with colorful quilt. Four separate lines were featured on the runway, BLUE Women, BLUE Men, RED Men and BLACK. Originally, the BLACK line was launched in the previous season and has already been known to give customers sophistication and trendiness to one’s personal style.

This year, models walked down the runway in leather trench coats, high-waisted leather flowy skirts and black velvet slim dresses with a low neckline. Thin and light transparent chiffon was delivered along with cropped camel-colored suits, burgundy shades and silk scarves. The runway also included hues of plum, teal, beige, brown and of course a whole lot of black. From pencil skirts to trench coats, the audience was completely surrounded in dramatic leather.

For men, Castro created trendy and elegant formalwear full of tailored silhouettes and strict suiting. Accessories included biker boots, umbrellas, wool scarves, leather gloves and oxford shoes.

Gadot and Wegman closed the show, strutting down the catwalk in full on black. Gadot sported a sweetheart draped gown and Wegman stunned in a black-collared trench coat over black suiting.

View the full show here:

Black magic: tap into your inner goth with black-cherry lips. Photograph: Observer

If you're going to wear make-up, then you might as well really, really wear it. Catwalk make-up at the mo' is either "natural" (bit of Vaseline, a pinch of the cheek and the winsome eyes of someone far more virginal than you've ever been) or full-on looks, for which the statement lip is key. I say statement lip, but in the late 90s we just called it Rimmel black cherry and slopped it on on the bus. Now, we fill in the whole lip with pencil, topped off with Tom Ford's Black Orchid (36, harveynichols.com), which, despite costing more than a Michelin meal, is so rich with pigment you only need a single slick. It's like the black-cherry lipstick of our youth, but grown up and married to a millionaire.

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