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Article: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- April 14, 2008
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Apparently, it is never too late to celebrate a store's opening - even if it occurred months ago. On Thursday night, a curious mix of models and French-speaking anonymes, some toting along their purse-size pooches, flocked to 57th Street, where Christian Lacroix was making his first New York appearance in four years at his namesake boutique.
Guests crammed into the steamy space that had even zero-body-fat models sweating it out. "It's too hot in here. It feels like detox," exclaimed catwalker Emina Cunmulaj as she beat a hasty retreat.
Lacroix gamely stuck it out. "I'm a New York lover," he proclaimed. Then why the delay in ribbon-cutting? He blamed scheduling ...
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