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Fashion Week

A clean break

What headlines? For spring, designers indulge their escapist fantasies.

ERIN FETHERSTON How better to escape than to wear a cloud? ERIN FETHERSTON How better to escape than to wear a cloud? (Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images)
By Christopher Muther
Globe Staff / September 11, 2008

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NEW YORK - Forget the week's headlines about weather disasters, a murky economy, and troop levels in the Middle East. Fashion designers certainly did. In the tents at New York's Bryant Park and other locations around Manhattan, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for spring/summer 2009 was an exercise in gleeful escapism. Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg, and Halston time traveled to a ... (Full article: 937 words)

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