CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Haute couture is an enigma to most. Accessible to only a select few (an estimated few thousand people globally) because of the eye-watering price tags that such extraordinary designs command,

And on the style front, the Nosferatu film's gloomy glamour and ruffled bonnets have sent many a fashion girl into a goth tailspin. At Couture Fashion Week this January, designers embraced their dark sides,

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