People: Jul. 21, 1997

WHAT WOULD AUDREY THINK?

Couture season in Paris: that bizarre time of year when the world's most beautiful women parade around in the world's most impeccably tailored, insanely expensive and unusual clothes. Certainly it doesn't get much odder than at the house of 28-year-old Alexander McQueen, Givenchy. His show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right, was as faux...

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