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Paris also had some of their own local designers today. Paris-born, Sonia Rykiel, presented her spring 2008 menswear line and there wasn’t an immense color spectacle as I had expected. Instead, subtle versions of candy colors appeared in the form of stripes and “pixels” - or little squares.

I don’t like Sonia Rykiel that much - honestly, I despise her. But I thought that this was the season on which she would astutely reinvent her label once again, and instead of including the ever-so-playful striped cardigans and garments, she would present something full of color, but exquisite in its own way. Well, I was definitively wrong. Nevertheless, it wasn’t bad at all. The menswear line was nicely conceived, and the pixelated shirt was definitively something innovate and unexpected.

Another thing that drew my attention was the quality of the fabrics used. I haven’t touch them or been anywhere near them, but they seem to be some much better than previous ones. Maybe, the red-haired designer finally decided to stop manufacturing her pieces in Asia, and started using French or Italian materials - that would definitively be a good thing, wouldn’t it?