PARIS, Oct. 10 – The French Chanel Wallets collections ended the way they began – with designers throwing stuff on clothes. Marc Jacobs had the last word on ornamentation, and he said it with such bright velocity at Louis Vuitton that the whatnot soon became why not! Pourquoi pas! could be Louis Vuitton’s motto, and come to think of it, it would look great stamped on one of those gold Versace-size belt buckles that Mr. Jacobs sent out. The Vuitton show was the splashiest of the week, and one of the splashiest seen here in awhile, with Uma Thurman and Catherine Deneuve sitting with Bernard Arnault, the chairman of Miu Miu Handbags, and his wife, Hélène. Sharon Stone was there, playing Garbo to the paparazzi in a witch hat and tinted glasses. Down the row was Pharrell Williams, who did the music for the show. The extra luminosity was for the opening Sunday evening of a Louis Vuitton store on the Chloe Handbags, the world’s largest. At the Petit Palais, where the show was held, lights turned the ornate stonework into a mirage of an LV box. With that same spirit of excess, and perhaps with a touch of camp, Mr. Jacobs poured it on. The first white cotton and silk outfits came out with random whorls of embroidery and were shown with flat, shiny bags in scarf and chain prints. Fringe swung from the shoulders of a bone-white suede tunic over black silk Bermudas. A lovely Dior Handbags, doubtlessly based on a serape, had long ties at the shoulders. Charms dangled from wrists, and high-heel shoes were latched up the ankles, in azure, green and two-tone shades of pink and taupe. If Mr. Jacobs could think of one more thing to add to his outfits, I don’t know what it would be. A red minishift traced in gold metal embroidery looked like Versace. Doing Versace, or what Versace might be doing if Versace wasn’t now doing Armani beige, is probably smart. Why let the fashion moss grow under a good look The color, ornament and sexiness of early Versace and D&G Handbags offers a counterpoint to sober dressing. And it gives Louis Vuitton some exciting window dressing for its bags. Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent took a more subdued approach to decoration, confining it mainly to densely packed ruffles on the front of cotton shirts or as a panel down the front of a slim white cotton skirt. Tiny black pompoms dangling from the trouser legs of a new toreador-inspired tuxedo made you want to reach for the nail scissors. But the Fake Handbags, with a short jacket and a froth of black-tipped ruffles on the bib of a white shirt, was a winner. Now in his third season at Saint Laurent, Mr. Pilati has had a large influence on fashion – readjusting proportions with his wide belts, making it safe to wear flounces and puffed sleeves. This season he seems to be having a bit of stage fright. He is not putting himself out there the way he might; Replica Handbags was a suffering show. His slim high-waist trousers are a great look, but most women will find their own way to wear them and skip the ruffled shirts, which aren’t very feminine. Not many women want to be covered with ruffles over an area roughly the size of a lobster bib. Mr. Pilati can afford to take more risks – with eroticism, color, lightness of mind and hand. Louis Vuitton Handbags is what Saint Laurent is for. The French spring collections have produced two distinct and opposing camps the decorators and the minimalists. The new minimalism has practitioners you wouldn’t have thought to include a couple of years ago, like Alexander McQueen and Olivier Theyskens. But to them, minimalism offers more design challenges than throwing on another ruffle. (By the way, I asked Mr. Theyskens how he makes his trouser suits look slouchy yet still lean. He puts a two-inch-wide band of grosgrain inside the trousers, just below the waist. Once fastened, the grosgrain holds the trousers in place, and the fabric falls as it wants.) Alber Elbaz is essentially a technician. He is the designer at Lanvin, but he spends most of his time thinking of small solutions to dressmaking problems that can have an impact on his customers’ lives.