Article: Time for Optimism, at Least in Wardrobe

NEW YORK - It's going to be a bright and sunny spring, judging by the rainbow of colors previewed at New York Fashion Week.

Forget the war, forget the mortgage crisis - it's not fashion's role to tackle the weighty issues on people's minds, said Michael Kors, who presented one of the most upbeat shows of the week with models in sherbet-colored stripes bopping up and down the runway to "Xanadu."

In fact, fashion can provide a welcome distraction, one that - luckily enough - can also get shoppers in the mood to buy.

"You open the newspaper every day and it isn't necessarily filled with a lot of happy news. There's the war, worries about the economy, the election - the list goes on and ...

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