Article: Best-dressed secrets: Bazaar looks at the designers who inspired the season's hottest styles, as we enter a new era of graceful glamour.(EDITOR'S LETTER)(Brief Article)

1 Madame Gres' Moment

Noticed on the runways: Two extremely different designers--Carolina Herrera and Yohji Yamamoto--found inspiration in Madame Gres' elegant one-shouldered, silk-jersey column gowns this season. Gres' masterful twists and drapes have never felt more relevant.

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2 Vionnet

Hubert de Givenchy--one of Paris' last-surviving grand couturiers--has chosen the perfect moment to help mount a major tribute to Madeleine Vionnet, who revolutionized fashion with her bias-cut dresses in the 1920s, in Paris on March 2. And there's a relaunch in the works.... Can we point out Derek Lam's nod to Vionnet's genius? ...

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