The beckoning call of Sofia and Sienna and Kate, those youthful sirens of highly personal, intriguingly mismatched, narrative dressing, was heard again and again at the spring 2006 collections. Although these girls were elsewhere engaged—Sofia Coppola was editing her new film, Marie Antoinette (see Balenciaga's mille-feuille Louis XIV jackets by Nicolas Ghesquière to get in the mood); Sienna Miller was prepping to play Edie Sedgwick (consider Burberry's adorable Empire-line, sixties 2-D dresses); and Kate Moss was in rehab (say no more; but see the parade of Mosses John Galliano sent out at Christian Dior)—echoes of their style reverberated on the catwalks. Near-weightless blushing frocks knocked up against jungle-red platforms, extralean trouser suits were finished off with big, fat belts, and even the simplest of city-smart urban sheaths appeared to have been waylaid en route to the show by a crazed gang of Ukrainian lacemakers.

—Sally Singer

"Charm School" has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the January 2006 issue of Vogue.

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