These are good times for fashion. So why weren't the clothes more interesting at Paris Fashion Week?

PARIS -- These are good times for fashion. But not such creative times for clothes. Culturally we have never been more fascinated by the style, aesthetics, personalities and glamor that the industry produces and attracts. From an obsession with the hip-hop power chic of Fox's successful drama "Empire," to the Twitter storm triggered by a president exchanging his conservative navy suit for a khaki summer-weight one, fashion has settled into our consciousness as both entertainment and social barom...