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dresses sliced into and then braided or piped, so that they resembled dreadlocks. The buckskin-colored Ultrasuede naturally returned one to Saturday morning westerns; Mr. Watanabe had cut slim Ultrasuede coats, loose ponchos (over faded jeans) and skirts that morphed into trousers. The hems fluttered with fringe. illion-euro acquisition of cashmere clothier Loro Piana SpA in July, according to a person familiar with the situation. He may Hermes Evelynesoon start helping to manage the Italian company, the person said. With three younger children, a nephew and a niece, Bernard Arnault has other potential successors, as well as non-family executives inside and outside LVMH. “At least one of them will show themselves capable of taking over,” Arnault said of his kin in a documentary aired in February on France 5 television. Antoine, at least, hasn’t excluded succeeding his father. “Perhaps. Who knows?” he told Bloomberg Pursuits magazine in 2012. “But not in the near future.”

 You couldn’t help but smile and think that anyone with a bit of imagination and patience could have made these clothes. For a number of outfits, Mr. Watanabe inset the front section of a pair of jeans into a dark, full skirt, worn with a puffy white cotton shirt. Because of the way the denim pieces were framed and distressed, with barely a trace of blue Hermes Paris Bombay Bags, they looked a little like sepia prints of a western sky.pical and very entertaining, but while the collection was better than usual, too many of the Gaultier standards, like zippered leather dresses, feel impervious to change. In his July haute couture show, Raf Simons of Dior included dresses and jewelry inspired by African motifs and colors. They were a small but distinctive part of a show aimed at global style. If Mr. Simons a panel of judges in a Left Bank nightclub, and the model Coco Rocha doing the Travolta part in “Grease,”

 Mr. Gaultier staged a TV-style dance show. As gags go, it was topical and very entertaining, but while the collection was better than usual, too many of the Gaultier standards, like zippered leather dresses, feel impervious to change. In his July haute couture show, Raf Simons of Dior Hermes Picotin Bagsincluded dresses and jewelry inspir Two devils of the ’80s, Yohji Yamamoto and Jean Paul Gaultier, approach the present very differently. With his models’ hair dusted granny gray and yanked into imbecilic spirals, Mr. Yamamoto plays it cool, as if he knows that something rebellious has gone out of fashion. Most of what he showed, especially neon layers and curvy black jackets split at the shoulders, fit the current mode for noisy colors and funny openings, but it felt more soulful. And it now has the virtue of being unrecognizable.