Is Paris still the center of fashion? Do Frenchwomen still have an identifying signature, envied by the rest of the world? To the discerning eye, they retain a certain understated nonchalance of style that has little to do with the bolder statement of designs for foreign buyers. The buyer for the trendy Paris store Colette is as adventuresome as French style seen today. All the high jinks and daring experiments, and the women draped in fox, are from other parts of the world, in search of what is conceived by many to be French style. This was the identity of Frenchwomen before World War I, vanishing by World War II. Ever since, they have taken shelter in the world of classic, restrained taste.
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