Gareth Pugh seems to have sobered up. The British wunderkind who used to show ruffs you could serve a three-course buffet on, and other things that wouldn’t fit in a midsize car, showed a pretty wearable but still cool collection in Paris today. Last season he sent models down the runway with giant feathered headdresses, but this season he merely smeared soot on their foreheads and roots. The almost-over-the-knee boots are a nice alternative to last fall’s thigh-highs, which probably never caught on because they often mostly look ridiculous and slutty.
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