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step into liquid.
Byline: Andre Leon Talley
The weather outside couldn't make up its mind. Was it Indian summer, with cumulus clouds blithely floating over the gilded domes of
the Tuileries gardens? Or was it a typically brisk Parisian autumn, with sudden sullen bursts of rain?
Inside, however, France's designers sailed a clear and sure course into uncharted fashion longitudes and latitudes. It was water, water everywhere, with maritime themes abounding, and a fresh accent on fluidity of fabric and fluidity of drape.
BY THE SEASHORE
Helmut Lang and Nicolas Ghesquiere pursued parallel themes on the buoyancy of being. Both went to the navy-French or American, I'm not sure-for inspiration.
No, neither of these sometimes swaggering auteurs swung from any mutinous masts: Both collections were terrifically wearable.
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