The month-long round of women's runway shows came

The month-long round of women's runway shows came to an end Wednesday in Paris, where designers heralded the return of clean, classic sportswear and searched for a new definition of luxury in the fast-moving digital age. Here are six ideas and trends ?spotted in New York, Milan and Paris ?that are likely to influence what women wear this fall and beyond.

If there was any doubt that camel is the color of the fall season, it was cleared up by designer Hannah MacGibbon. Her Chloe collection was a study in the classic hue and every other shade of beige, from caramel to bark to bisque.

Camel is a fresh alternative to black, reflecting fashion's renewed interest in classic American-style sportswear, a trend that we saw on the runways in New York at Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs and Derek Lam, and in Milan at Gucci and Max Mara.

In Paris, nearly every designer had a camel coat on the runway. Chloe's MacGibbon showed sturdy man-tailored camel's hair coats alongside sleek high-waist trousers, dotted bow-front blouses or chambray shirts, and cowboy boots.