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Article: A French connection in Britain's wardrobes; The IoS interview; Nicole Farhi, fashion designer and entrepreneur Fashion: Thirty years after she crossed the Channel, the thinking woman's designer has lost none of her Gallic sophistication
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2003
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Cool elegance may be the mark of clothes designed by Nicole Farhi,
but with her show for London Fashion Week only three days away, the
woman behind one of the biggest brands in the business was feeling
the heat yesterday.
"I'm never normally tired," she said as she dashed round the
factory in Fulham where her outfits were receiving their final
touches. "But I slept very badly last night. And with everything
that's happening with the demonstrations in London, fashion suddenly
seems irrelevant. It's quite upsetting, really."
Still, the show must go on, even though Ms Farhi was clearly more
animated by world events than by her hemlines. A Frenchwoman who has
chosen to live and work in Britain ...