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Patty Huntington reports from Milan's fashion week: Gucci's 85th

Now don't get me wrong. It's not that the Gucci party wasn't nice. It was very nice. A series of elegant, ivy and bay leaf-lined black/transparent marquees had been erected on some vacant block or park in Milan's Via Melegari last Wednesday night to create a mini Gucci world. The R&B artist John Legend performed. The service was impeccable. People "got down" nicely – but not naughtily.

Backstage after Thursday's scintillating Dolce e Gabbana show. And I do mean scintillating, with a finale of one-armed, Lesage-sequinned catsuits and jumpsuits. I should note that the most amusing aspect of this finale was not the outfits themselves, which seemed more than a little Elvis-meets-Coogi but rather, the performances of the models who had all apparently been briefed to wave one arm up and down in a kind of interpretative dance movement - designed, presumably, to best highlight the unisleeves. Twyla Tharp, it wasn't.

The Leak: Can this be true? Glamour takes Crimes of Fashion and Don't Spotting from photos to video! Glamour magazine and Blip.tv have launched a Web site for readers to rat out their less-than-fashionable friends, or tip off America to the next big trend.
Don'tspotting accepts e-mail photos taken by users of the fashion highs and lows they come across on the street. Visitors can send in comments on the images, including rankings of approval and disapproval.