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• Bohemian Hermes 

Gypsies and luxury don't seem like the likeliest of couples, but they teamed up brilliantly at the latest collection by Hermes, a tour de force by the label's designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Staged Saturday on a Slavonic carpet and with Romany music gurgling out of the soundtrack, the show featured a marriage of haute gamme hippie and the unique ability of the Hermes atelier to create products of exceptional quality. . . .

Gaultier's vision of Hermes is very much uptown, but not uptight - one model even walked down the catwalk clutching a lit cigarette, which is possibly illegal under new French anti-smoking laws, but looked just right.

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