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Evening Standard
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Joe Bromley

‘They are so close minded, so constipated’—London designer Germanier on his mission to shake up French fashion

Floating into a gold gilded Baroque room in the Maison Baccarat came a stream of electrifying garments covered in shocking neon beads, brighter feathers and masses of sequins.

They were a far cry from the typically chic Paris Fashion Week shows, where more of the same tweeds, cashmeres and tulles were blasted out en masse over the last nine days.

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