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Riddles on the RunwaysIt isn't necessary to be weird in order to be cool.
The fall 2007 collections opened here on Sunday with presentations by designers known for pushing fashion toward the edges of understanding.
No other major city on the fashion circuit, including New York and London, is so amenable to designers who speak in riddles and half-truths.
Paris nurtures designers who believe a career can be built on expensively tattered rags or artfully destroyed sweaters. And thank goodness.
These are the creative goofballs and intellectuals who keep the fashion industry off balance, who keep it from getting too comfortable with what was profitable last year and the year before that.
They are invaluable to an industry fueled by the unexpected.
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