I have been a bit slow to react on this, but my inbox is overflowing at the moment. WWD posted an article on Monday entitled Top Ten Collections of Spring 2010. You can read it for yourself, but here is their top ten: Alberta Ferretti, Balenciaga, Chanel, Donna Karan, Jason Wu, Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, and Versace. Well…

I know that it is inevitable that Balenciaga and Marc Jacobs are always the darlings of the industry, so I won’t argue that. Chanel is, well, Chanel, they rightly deserve a spot in every fashion top ten. But I would like to suggest that we replace Missoni, Alberta Ferretti, Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, and Versace…

Missoni, Alberta Ferretti, Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, and Versace (images from www.style.com)

with Lanvin (always amazing), Celine (what a debut for Phoebe Philo! minimal and NOW), Bruno Pieters (also minimal and very beautifully intellectual), Burberry (those trenches…) and Alexander McQueen (the Armadillos! and what a show!) My choices might be a bit more predictable, but I can guarantee five years from now we will remember THOSE shoes from the McQueen show, and the exceptional first collection Philo did for Celine more than Ferretti or Versace’s collection.

Bruno Pieters, Burberry, Alexander McQueen, Celine, Lanvin (images from www.style.com)

Celine and Pieters collection, amongst others, have definitely embraced the minimal look that we haven’t seen in a while… I would love to see a return to minimalism, I could always imagine myself with a wardrobe full of black and camel from Jil Sander, Michael Kors, Celine, Loewe, and Narcisso Rodriguez. Lots of cashmere and leather…and throw in some Hermes.