Paris fashion rediscovers its rebel heart

Paris fashion has rediscovered its taste for rebellion with designers playing fast and loose not just with the old rules of couture but also with France's ban on the full-face veil. The mould-breaking French label Vetements — the new darling of the fashion press — staged a show full of teenage revolt and defiance in a cathedral late Thursday, while American Rick Owens flirted with the law by completely shrouding the heads of 14 of his models in veils. The previous year, at the height of the Greek debt crisis, one of his models carried a placard down the catwalk declaring, “Please kill Angela Merkel not”.

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Paris fashion rediscovers its rebel heart