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January 23, 2008 9:30 pm
The social preamble to Roland Mouret’s RM show—in the spare Espace des Commines, once Helmut Lang’s at-home space in the nineties—was a case not so much of theater as fashion in the round. A delay in the early morning proceedings gave lots of time for guests to rotate the room, thus giving an ideal opportunity for viewing—front,
aft, and profile—the many women who turned up wearing his formfitting frocks. Victoria Beckham, early on the scene in a gray, pieced, zipper-backed dress from his Spring collection (topped with her own chinchilla) provided a slam-dunk display of the virtues of the svelte RM silhouette. She was there as a Mouret extended-family supporter: She, (and the Spice Girls) owe their careers to the designer’s backer, Simon Fuller, the impresario-manager who, among other many lucrative enterprises, created "American Idol" and its international spin-offs. He was there, too, taking a ringside seat to watch the progress of the first and only fashion investment in his extensive stable of talent. See the RM collection reviewed in our pre-fall coverage later this week.
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