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Since Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Andre Courreges are more or less avant-garde, one might be thankful that the offerings departed from their current fascination with four-sleeved sweaters or garish prints. Castelbajac may in fact have disappointed those who longed for something more controversial. His chasubles are translucent to splash bright colors on the white albs underneath, evoking the stained-glass windows of his boyhood memory. ("God was light," he recalls.) The outsize cross symbols are certainly traditional enough, inspired as they were by clothing that St. Louis wore during the Seventh Crusade. More outre, Courreges offered...
Swaddling Coats. Even European designers are getting into the north-country spirit. Paris' Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, 26, is the most nobly sauvage of the pack. His collection includes sweatpants ($98) tucked into linen or leather booties, parkas with built-in knapsacks ($160) and swaddling coats made from blanket material ($355). Proclaims Castelbajac: "The outdoors look is a reaction to dullness...
Tossed about the Channel like flotsam, Lord Jim's crew found little to occupy themselves but an occasional tune on the guitar by Bertie de Castelbajac and-of course-an occasional bottle of wine...
...Gironde River, the crew of the cutter Lord Jim brought their craft up the Thames. All was well at last, with only one minor drawback-of all the bottles carefully laid away in Lord Jim's lockers, only ten still contained wine. "Ah, well," mused Guitarist de Castelbajac, as his captain faced London's vintners with somewhat empty hands, "some wine, it just does not travel...
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