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Article: Secrets of French elan.(analysis of French style by three experts)(Brief Article)
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- September 1, 2001
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Three dynamic women raised in France, who now run independent businesses in America, get to the bottom of an international mystery: What is French style today? Their most surprising answers come from within.
Joining Editor in Chief Peggy Kennedy at New York's Bryant Park Cafe are FRANCINE GARDNER (left), designer and owner of the Manhattan home-furnishings shop Interieurs; KETTY PUCCI-SISTI MAISONROUGE (middle), president of the Comite Colbert, an alliance of French luxury producers; and FLORENCE DE DAMPIERRE, lecturer and author of "The Best of Painted Furniture" and "The Decorator" (both Rizzoli). And yes indeed, each in her confident way cuts a definitely ...