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Born Romantics: Nina Ricci, Alexander McQueen, John GallianoWith sweeping historicism and an embrace of nature, the final days of the autumn/winter 2008 season took a gentle turn, as though graphic modernism and shiny, metallic futurism were being rejected by born romantics.
At Nina Ricci, Sunday's collection was tinged with the autumnal melancholy of golden leaves turning from saffron to ochre.
It was a show about those gentle fall colorings, delicately treated - even thought the designer Olivier Theyskens said backstage: "I wasn't thinking so much about nature but about finding things in the attic."
The shades of the fall season were glorious: teal blue and bois de rose among russet tones.
But the clothes were infinitely more constrained and repetitive, with the daywear based on a snug jacket and pants with a jodhpur curve.
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