Female designers, from Miuccia Prada to Sarah Burton, brought us the most radical takes on “feminine” style this season.

Daring fashionistas are shelling out big bucks for braided hair neckties from a luxury label after the avant-garde add-on was unveiled in Paris last year.

If you’ve ever yearned to be a Cool French Girl, you can blame Natacha Ramsay-Levi. A teen intern for Balenciaga turned design director at Louis Vuitton and creative director at Chloé, the ...