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    All the Gossip (Girls) from the couture show front rows

    Blake Lively and Leighton Meester were just two of the stars checking out the fabulous fashion on display at Chanel, Dior, Armani & more

    By Marie Claire
    Published 7 July 2010 In News

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    Blake Lively and Leighton Meester at Chanel - Front row at the Paris Couture shows - Chanel Haute Couture, couture fashion week, fashion, celebrity, Marie Claire
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    Blake Lively and Leighton Meester were just two of the stars checking out the fabulous fashion on display at Chanel, Dior, Armani & more

    Day two of the Paris Couture shows saw covetable collections from Chanel, Givenchy and Armani Prive, and a whole host more famous faces hitting the front rows.

    But almost distracting from the fabulous fashion on display (wait, we said almost!) were a couple of Gossip Girls sitting pretty at the side of the catwalk.

    SEE ALL THE STARS FRONT ROW AT THE COUTURE SHOWS HERE

    All eyes were on Blake Lively and Leighton Meester when they put in appearances at the Chanel Couture show, among a host of other fashionable faces including Jessica Alba, Milla Jovovich and newest Gossip Girl Clemence Poesy.

    With both girls donning their finest Chanel (naturally) the co-stars went for a Yin-and-yang approach to dressing, with Leighton in a tough-look leather dress, and Blake in pretty pastels from the recent Resort collection.

    Blake Lively and Leighton Meester at Chanel - Front row at the Paris Couture shows - Chanel Haute Couture, couture fashion week, fashion, celebrity, Marie Claire

    The guests took in Karl Lagerfeld's newest collection for the French fashion house - a traditionally demure array of heavily textured two-pieces, button-up coats and layered dresses, with plenty of thick tweed, luxe velvet, fur trims and intricate embroidery.

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    SEE THE COMPLETE CHANEL COUTURE COLLECTION HERE

    In contrast, the earlier Armani Prive catwalk was awash with high-octane, glittering gowns, in a colour palette of mesmerising metallics, golds, bronze, amber and shimmering soft caramel. Think plenty of draping silks, luxe satin and fairytale tulle.

    SEE THE COMPLETE ARMANI PRIVE COLLECTION HERE

    The Givenchy Couture collection saw Ricardo Tisci showing off his unimitable genius in the form of ten couture pieces, inspired by surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, and her passion for religion, anatomy and sensuality...

    Cue ten spectacular creations - light silk-tulle gowns with lace overlays and silk fringing, three-dimensional stone-encrusted coats and abstract, hand-painted patterns. SEE ALL THE STARS FRONT ROW AT THE COUTURE SHOWS HERE

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