The Paris fashion world for the past two weeks has been like a solid string of Broadway openings. Behind the scenes, all was hysteria, tantrums and frantic last-minute pinning, as couturier after couturier sent out his fall and winter models in one make-or-break fashion show. It was even worse out front, where fashion editors, buyers and quick-sketch artistsmost of whose skirts rode up to mid-thighwildly scribbled and checked programs in a furious effort to catch the new trends.
It proved an almost impossible task. If any message emerged from the pandemonium, it...
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