Kicking the corpse around
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:52 pm
The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse.
Meanwhile Valentino showed off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection, and Lebanese designer Elie Saab produced a fairytale blockbuster.
But Wednesday's show also highlighted the importance of the Middle East and Asia in couture finance: Bollywood actresses mixed alongside Arab and Chinese buyers at his show.
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