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Article: One step beyond.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2001
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Byline: SOPHY ROBERTS
If it's in, it's already out. So what's the fashion pack to do during show time? Save face with the Sophy Roberts guide to New York, Paris and Milan
THE chrome, white-walled, Parmesanshaving-lifestyle is alive and thriving in the provinces, wearing its Vuitton graffit'd bag smugly on its arm. In the city, all that's happened - it's over.
Forget nights round the long bar of a clichEd boutique hotel pleading for a table at Nobu. What we want now is: understatement (think zinc Paris bar tucked away in Barbes, the ragged Right-Bank 'hood), irony (major designer living in a fringe area) and eclecticism (vintage worn with ...