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"   From Anthony Vaccarello&amp;#039;s AW11 collection. Photo: Getty Images  The last round of fashion month quietly kicked off in Paris yesterday\u2014the shows themselves were pretty quiet, though the Galliano chatter was not\u2014and the French capital&amp;#039;s feeling quite sexy. Early in the day Anthony Vacarello showed his AW11 collection in Le Marais. Vacarello, who won the Grand Jury Prize at Hyeres in 2006, sent out a string of tight dresses with precariously placed cut-outs. The few dresses that hit below the knee featured sheer swirls of fabric above and below the bottom for just enough coverage (if you&amp;#039;re 6\u2032 tall) while the Italian born, Brussels bred designer gave his minis low backs and lots of zippers. With clothes like these it&amp;#039;s the shoes (and the models wearing them) that make all the difference. If the girls could&amp;#039;ve walked down the runway without looking ready to face plant, the collection would have looked even better. Later, Josephus Thimister invited the fashion press to view his AW11 collection in a small room off the Grand Palais. The designer, who started as an interior decorator, has been gathering &amp;quot;buzz&amp;quot; for years thanks to a long history that includes working at Balenciaga and assisting Karl Lagerfeld. He was just inducted into the F\u00E9d\u00E9ration Fran\u00E7aise de la Haute Couture last year though he&amp;#039;s been designing couture, and his ready-to-wear collection, for years. This season, Thimister&amp;#039;s championing the jumpsuit for both men and women. The silhouette came in silk, faux python and a material that looked like canvas covered with dry, cracked, white paint. Silk was often knotted and draped for a voluminous effect enhanced by hooded cloaks. At the end, he added knits in beige and black as well as massive pieces of shearling and animal skins either belted, or swung over the shoulder like from a fashion hunting victory. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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