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Enjoy viewing some highlights of the FALL2008 Collections from some of Europe’s top houses and more. It’s really what I call high art or perhaps, theatre is more like it. Though the French particularly know how to create a garment that insist on a grand entrance, it’s the American ready-to-wear Designers that seem to all know how to design, manufacture and market clothes for the masses. Haute Couture is why I fell in love with Fashion Designing. But. For all practical purposes I realized as a working designer how difficult it was to always keep a well structured garment within a range of affordability. I imagine there is still your wealthy patrons and celebrity buyers but for the rest of us, it is still the question of “….how much is it going to cost?” It is for that reason even the Europeans have resorted to hiring and taking on so many American Designers to share in their design and manufacture of clothes we can ALL afford. Bona petite!