>> Two very different designers, Alber Elbaz for Lanvin and Yohji Yamamoto, showed collections with a largely red and black color scheme today. The latter said his red stood for “blood and crazy,” but it's not as terrifying as it seems. In fact, the collection was quite beautiful: wool coats in all shapes and sizes — bunched, brushed with red or white, boasting asymmetrical flaps or gauzy overlay. The Moment called it "poetic," which seems most appropriate; even with the punkish streaked hair, one-eye eyeliner, the soundtrack was still eery piano. Neon pink and red flats and booties made their debut, part of Yohji's new collaboration with Salvatore Ferragamo, and it all finished with a choreographed finale: five models, hand-in-hand, each wearing a tomato red coat, formed a circle, displaying a strip of hot pink down their backs.
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>> INSIDER WIRE —A break from all the clothes sashaying down the runways for a scandal that doesn't involve Olivier Theyskens: Bertrand Hennet, the chief executive of Elite World, the parent company of Elite Model Management, was charged Wednesday with buying and transporting illegal drugs. His Paris apartment and office were searched Tuesday, but nothing was found; Hennet did admit to snorting up to two grams of cocaine per day, but was not charged with supplying the drug. Elite last faced scandal in 1999, when an expose revealed that young models were being pressured into sex and drugs. [
