Paris Fashion Week: Stella McCartney autumn/winter 2012 Designer Stella McCartney excelled with feminine tailoring at Paris Fashion Week. Schoolgirls, sportswear, and Savile Row were the stars - along with Sir Paul - at Stella McCartney's show this morning. Newly relocated to the chandelier-bestrewn Hotel de Ville, McCartney's opening phase centred around an elaborate leafy pattern (uncannily similar to that on the venue's magnificent curtains) that wended its several-shaded way across shoulders and down legs on tailored jackets, short skirts, mini-ruffed mini-dresses and baggy tailored trousers in purple, black and blue. That pattern took over in richly blue on black jacquard trousers and jackets, then faded a little for some It-girl knitwear; a grey jumper with and oversized felted Aran effect on the front on some great long body hugging knit dresses in pink and grey worn under mannish blue cotton shirts. A heavily sportswear-influenced section - that scrunchy scuba material, oddly-placed zippers, and athletics-style anatomical panels in different colours - and a long section of dresses and coats in tweed, sometimes greenish, sometimes greyish, with ribbed baseball jacket collar details followed. READ: Stella McCartney's nanny issues Her team's spelling might be imprecise (the show notes claimed "Saville Row" techniques were deployed) but the claim was fair enough: the tailoring - especially to achieve a newly-popular hourglass effect at the hip - was of a high standard. McCartney's one off show at London Fashion Week last month provided her next-season evening wear pizzazz: this was her vision of what the Stella woman wears by day. Those knits were great, as were the low-slung (sometimes dangerously so) wide-legged tailored trousers.