Paris Highlights: Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear

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It s fashion week, and I m in Paris.

So what better place to go to shows.

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Mustaches are obviously in

Because everyone has a mustache this season

No, I arrived in Paris with a full beard

And I leave with a mustache

Did you sneak out of school to come here?

No, no, it s Sunday, yeah

The last big show of the week in Paris was John Gallianos

Where the fashion literally went up in puffs of smoke.

It s quite a telling metaphor for these troubled times.

Except that it was something pretty substantial going on

In Paris this week.

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The strong trend is the underwear worn as a cocktail dress

I thought, ah!

Pointy bras are obviously back!

The super nipple

I need to get one of those.

I ve seen enough bras

to make Madonna very happy.

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The slip is coming back.

Thank god.

I love how the things that I m really into

they always come back around.

That s why we ve created Le Slip Illusion

Where you actually don t have to wear any underwear at all.

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It d be fair to say this is the season the cocktail dress.

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It s time for the painters to look

at a designer

when he has that sense of form and poetry .

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There have been some beautiful evening collections

But women have to walk around

In the streets during the daytime.

I ll tell you where I saw unbelievable great

real day clothes, was at Celine today.

As Judy Blaymont said to me

There is beige, and there is beige.

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This is nothing simple about being a woman these days.

Well, there is more than one woman in the world.

You could be a rocker one day

And you know, a very chic lady the next.

Was it cool girls in soldiers? Fabulous, I love that!

In Celine, those epaulets

The things they use on the military coat.

Phoebe interprets it in chiffon blouse, I found it so chic.

Fred Jawariar in a way.

Ah, I don t know, I see the Amazons.

Amazon girls.

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I like the fact that Louis Vuitton started on time.

Although they could have warned a few more people.

Let s not forget that when everyone s wallets

are slapped tight shut

We need to give them a reason to open them.

And that s exactly what designers seem to be doing

Going back to their heritage.

No, there s been a lot of kind of standness on the runway

And I just wanted to just bring a summer energy.

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I really never had some much fun at a fashion show

I thought that Chanel, really great

Wonderful fabrics, and great accessories

Very chic rustic.

All the better shows have a lot of oddness in them

You want designers to take you on a bit of a journey.

Somewhere you don t quite know.

Like superwomen

I want to go home tonight and find like a sexy lizard woman

with aqua lungs to spend the rest of my life with.

Can I ask you what you thought of the show?

Just makes me think of aliens.

I ve seen Gareth Pugh, I ve seen Rick Owens

It feels very twenty first century for the first time.

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I think what happened in Paris

Actually rolled up the four weeks we saw before

And the whole fashion picture became must clearer.

You know, it s Paris runways

I mean this is where high artifice was born.

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