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Article: Franck Sorbier puts romance into couture
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- AP Worldstream
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- January 23, 2002
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Dateline: PARIS
Young couturier Franck Sorbier added a note of grace to the summer
haute couture collections winding up Wednesday, laying on a charming
show of girlish spring-summer dresses at Christie's auction house.
Nobody could follow the grandiose retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent
fashions the night before at the Georges Pompidou Center. But as France'
s greatest designer retires, younger designers like Sorbier are being
given their chance, and this relative newcomer in his mid-thirties
likes romance.
Most of Sorbier's dresses were romantic and fresh as springtime, with
bustiers made of lace pressed into fabric, and layered skirts in pastels.
The workmanship, ...