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This was an extremely opportune moment for Gilles Mendel to stage his very first formal runway show (inspired by Tolstoy's Anna Karenina) for the J. Mendel collection in conjunction with Fashion Week. It was all about "a deconstructed aristocrat, reconstructed into something more edgy" as he put it, and to that end, Cartier jewelry was used in order to illustrate the feeling of unexpected luxury. This third generation furrier's great grandfather was furrier to the Czars, and his motto is "Fur is Fabric", which was omnipresent on the runway- it was one of the prettiest shows of the week and displayed fur with a new, modern, and youthful attitude.
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