From the joy of capes to the great tights uprising: seven style lessons from couture

This season’s high-fashion shows have schooled us on hosiery, eggs and what the industry is determinedly calling ‘athevening’. Here’s everything we learned from the Paris catwalks

The 2012 Oscars was The One When The Artist Won Everything and Gwynnie wore a cape. With the benefit of hindsight, the film was sweet but Gwyneth was everything, and the spirit of that white Tom Ford gown is all over this couture week. Karl Lagerfeld – who was spotted hanging out with Paltrow in his design studio days before the Chanel show– finished the show with supermodels dressed as superheroes. Gigi Hadid wore a pale-gold full-length cape, open at the front over a matching floor-length embroidered dress. At Giambattista Valli, even short cocktail dresses came with a highwayman flourish at the shoulder. At Ralph & Russo, the finale bridal gown was worn with a cape embroidered with metallic thread, silver bullion, crystals and glass beads. It was so heavy that it required six attendants to help the model turn at the end of the catwalk. Only Wonder Woman need apply.