British Designers Light Up Paris Fashion Week
March 3, 2008 | Senay GOKCEN
After the relatively sedate shows and commercial clothes that came down the runways during the fall 2008 collections here, it was left up to a couple of Brits to put the fantasy back into Paris fashion week.
Designers Alexander McQueen and John Galliano each presented over-the-top shows that were not only spectacular theatre but starred some extraordinarily beautiful clothes that provided a jolt the jaded fashion crowd needed from the lull of the week's lack of runway theatrics.
On Friday night, Alexander McQueen presented a fantastical collection based on a fairy tale - The Girl Who Lived In The Tree.
If that tale doesn't seem familiar from your Mother Goose days, never mind, it seems to be a concoction of this genius designer.
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