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Paris Fashion: Tea dress, scarf or tunic?
Michèle and Olivier Chatenet built their new E2 collection on vintage silk scarves transformed into a series of imaginative shapes to wear and to tie as fashion clothing. So Hermès horses would gallop across the torso of a vest or a Jacques Fath silk square was twisted into an elegant collar. As tea dress or tunic, the French foulard, so fashionable from the 1930s through the 1970s, was given a second life. That is the essence of the E2 concept to vintage clothing, applied for the first time this season to accessories. And with creative imagination, the humble or grand square of fabric becomes something, as Michèle Chatenet puts it, "that you can fold into your bag and transform into an outfit at night." .
NY Fashion Week to accent clean look for spring
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fashion cleans up next spring, with lean, polished looks prevailing over the revealing styles favored by the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears set, designers say. Designers unveil their spring 2008 looks in New York's semi-annual Fashion Week that kicked off on Wednesday with shows by Nautica, which showed sporty menswear, and BCBGMAXAZRIA, which showed dresses in delicate layers of silk in muted tones of ivory, taupe and lilac. More than 100,000 people are expected to attend Fashion Week before it ends next Wednesday. For women sick of seeing skimpy, baby-doll clothes meant for teens, this is their moment. "It's a clean-up campaign," said David A. Wolfe, creative director of The Doneger Group trend forecasters. New styles will be "not as flashy and not as vulgar as we've seen in the recent past -- fewer clothes for Britney and Paris Hilton, more for grown-up women," he said.
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