Paris Fashion Week Is Bleak

The Ready-to-Wear shows at Paris Fashion Week were bland and bleak, lacking elegance and grace.
Paris Fashion Week Is Bleak
UNEXPECTED TOP: Jean Paul Gaultier for Hermes offers a jacket and jeans with plenty of accessories and breaks the classic lines with a print blouson top. Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images
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JEAN PAUL GAULTIER FOR HERMES: Consider taking up tennis just to wear this dress. (Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images)

If you like elegance and grace, you will be disappointed in many of the styles featured in Paris at the ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2010 fashion show held Oct. 5-8. Bleakness ruled. Maybe it was a misinterpretation of the attempt to tone down lavishness in consideration of the poor economy.