Kareena marries Akon, SRK!

Kareena marries Akon, SRK!Shah Rukh Khan never disappoints. Even as he kept the media waiting for about two hours, the king of Bollywood made up for the delay and wooed the audience with his non-stop wit and charm.

He decided to welcome the international rap singer Akon in a traditional manner and showered him with flowers, whereas his heroine of Ra. One Kareena Kapoor put 'tikka' on his forehead and garlanded him. And when Shahrukh noticed that flummoxed look on Akon, he quipped with a dimpled smile, "In India, once the actress garlands you, you are married to the hero." And when a member of the press pointed out that how all three of them wore black and white, Shahrukh remarked, "Now that we are married we will be coordinating clothes as well."
There are also talks of Akon singing for Shah Rukh's IPL team. "I would love to have him sing for Kareena as well (laughs) not only for my cricket team, but at present it is only the film. He will do lots of songs and will do some Hindi lines as well," said Shah Rukh, who fielded the question sportingly when asked whether he was following his rival Akshay Kumar in getting international stars to sing for his film. "I am just a follower, I never set a trend," he remarked, with a tinge of sarcasm.

And the meet ended with Akon singing few lines from his famous song, Beautiful on Kareena's request. And the superstar while pretending to hold a guitar, sang, "I always wanted to be a rock star..."

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Deepika doesn't believe in size zero

Deepika doesn't believe in size zero


Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who is blessed with a good figure, says she does not believe in being size zero as the Indian body type is not meant for it.

"Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either," said Deepika. "I believe that it's nice to be little full and have a nice shape," she added.

The Bollywood actress was the show stopper for designer duo Shantanu & Nikhil's show at the Lakme Fashion Week here Sunday. According to Deepika, an actress gets a role for her performance and not the body type.

"In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size," explained Deepika.

"It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body - the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference," she added.

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Pixie Lott's magic

Singer's ready to charm Hollywood

POUTING PIXIE: Pictures by Ellen Von Unwerth: H&K / JME Photo, clothes by Fendi
LOOKS like Pixie Lott's lying for it - a role as a Hollywood bed girl that is.

BENDING OVER BACKWARDS: To make it big
BENDING OVER BACKWARDS: To make it big

The Mama Do babe has got her first Tinsel Town job, in a movie called Fred about a YouTube star.

Click here to see more photos of Pixie Lott

In an exclusive interview, the 18-year-old Essex girl told the News of the World: "It's really exciting - it's great that my first film is a big American one. Music is my priority, but I love acting and I'd like to get some more experience in that."

Pixie flies out to Los Angeles today to start shooting: "It should be really good fun, I can't wait."

IT'S A MUG'S GAME: Pixie's chasing film fame
IT'S A MUG'S GAME: Pixie's chasing film fame

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Pixie Lott's magic

Singer's ready to charm Hollywood

POUTING PIXIE: Pictures by Ellen Von Unwerth: H&K / JME Photo, clothes by Fendi
LOOKS like Pixie Lott's lying for it - a role as a Hollywood bed girl that is.

BENDING OVER BACKWARDS: To make it big
BENDING OVER BACKWARDS: To make it big

The Mama Do babe has got her first Tinsel Town job, in a movie called Fred about a YouTube star.

Click here to see more photos of Pixie Lott

In an exclusive interview, the 18-year-old Essex girl told the News of the World: "It's really exciting - it's great that my first film is a big American one. Music is my priority, but I love acting and I'd like to get some more experience in that."

Pixie flies out to Los Angeles today to start shooting: "It should be really good fun, I can't wait."

IT'S A MUG'S GAME: Pixie's chasing film fame
IT'S A MUG'S GAME: Pixie's chasing film fame

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How to avoid looking like a tourist

tourist

Hawiian shirt... tick. Huge camera... tick. Do you look like a tourist? / AAP

tourist

It's ok to ask for directions, just make sure you do it discreetly.

YOU can spot them in any big city: gaggles of backpack-lugging, snapshot-taking outsiders who always seem to be at every major landmark.

They're often loud, sunburned and dragging along a bunch of screaming kids. They're tourists.

While not all tourists are that bad, when strangers come to your town or city, you can usually spot them a mile away. And that means that con artists, pickpockets and people who are just looking for an excuse to be inhospitable spot them too.

AskMen.com has put together these tips to help you blend in and get the most out of your trip:

Do your homework
It always helps to have some background information on where you're going.

Knowledge of the local customs or history can help you avoid sticking out - or even offending the locals. You don't want to try to get a meal in a small town in Spain, for example, when everyone has closed up shop for their afternoon siesta.

Know the currency
Familiarise yourself with the exchange rate so you don't have to figure out how much the local money is worth every time you pay for something.

Avoid having to say things like: "How much is this worth in Australian dollars?" Find out the exchange rate the day before you leave, apply it to a $10 purchase, and use this scale to calculate the value of your expenditures. For example, if you know that €10 is worth $19 at a 1.57% exchange rate, you'll know that a €20 purchase is worth around $35 at the same rate.

Get familiar with your surroundings
This is the third thing that you should nail in order to avoid looking like a tourist. You can buy maps and guidebooks for most major cities around the world in big bookstores or on the internet. Once that's done, you can plan your itinerary and get familiar with the areas you'll be visiting.

Of course, it's not the same as being there. However, if you do your prep work, you're much less likely to be caught off guard by cabbies who like to take the scenic route. Furthermore, you don't want to get lost, or appear lost, in public.

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Learn a few words of the language
Get as familiar as you can with the local language. You don't have to be fluent, but it's very helpful to memorise a few basic words, handy phrases (such as "Where's the bathroom?") and common slang.

A real help would be to get yourself a dictionary - a pocket or travel-oriented one is best - before you go. Or better still; try downloading a language app on to your iPhone.

Get directions discreetly
Ever see a tourist standing on a street corner with a huge map unfolded? Would you want to look that clueless?

If you do get lost, find a quiet place to open up your map - a store or restaurant will do, providing they let you sit down for a while. Local businessmen and merchants, being established in the area, are also more likely to know the neighbourhood and to give you better directions than passersby.

Dress the part
Make sure your clothes are appropriate for the local culture and climate. Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt may be great for St. Petersburg, Florida, but they won't fly in St. Petersburg, Russia. Don't wear souvenir clothes that will give you away as a tourist instantly.

Don't carry heavy bags or other accessories you won't need. If you bring your camera, don't leave it hanging around your neck all day, or even in your hand. Keeping it at the hotel will not only allow you to blend in better, but you'll be less likely to have it damaged or snatched. If you carry it with you, put it in a shoulder bag when you're not using it.

Keep a low profile
Always be polite and unobtrusive. Remember, you're a visitor, so act as you would expect someone who is visiting your home to act. If there's a misunderstanding, don't lose your cool. Keep in mind that yelling won't help you be better understood.

Make sure you've replaced the dollars in your wallet with local currency, unless you're in a place where dollars are accepted. If it's practical, make sure you have enough cash on hand so that you don't have to keep getting your currency exchanged, which is often less convenient and more expensive abroad.

Don't travel in big groups or as part of an organised sightseeing tour. There may be strength in numbers, but numbers can also stick out and be unwieldy or downright inflexible when it comes to a change of plans.

Stray off the beaten path
If you can, avoid travelling in high season. You'll get a better feel for your destination if you're there when the other tourists are gone, plus you'll get better rates on airfare and accommodation.

Stay away from the obvious tourist traps. When picking restaurants, try some local cuisine instead of visiting a chain that you have back home. You didn't cross an ocean just to eat at another McDonald's, right?

Get help from the locals
If you already know someone who lives where you're going, get them to help you and show you around. They'll know where all of the good places to go are, and you'll likely be better treated if you're with a local.

Making new friends there isn't a bad idea either - just be wary of scams.

Otherwise, don't be afraid to ask for help from a hotel concierge or tour guide. It's their job to help you out, and they already know that you're an out-of-towner.

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Minimalism, and Plenty of It

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

JOHN GALLIANO A lamb blouson over a striped wool coat and pants.

Paris Fashion Week
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN A leather jacket embellished with crocheted curls.

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

GIVENCHY A lace and leather shift shown with boots and tights.

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

STELLA MCCARTNEY A minimalist notched coat in taupe wool.

Apparently everybody got the memo about minimalism.

The fall ready-to-wear collections continued their clean sweep as Stella McCartney sent out linear coats with only a little notch in the front for a detail and crewnecks and slacks so plain and simple, you had to remind yourself you weren’t looking at Ann Taylor.

Give the retail chain six months to catch up.

That’s how long it took for Phoebe Philo’s first Céline show, last October, to have an influence. Ms. Philo isn’t the only designer who likes simplified clothes. Indeed, Ms. McCartney’s spring clothes had the same attitude. But Ms. Philo’s ability to give Céline a look makes her the equivalent of a yardstick. Suddenly, it seems, everybody is using her strict measure as the rule.

Ms. McCartney’s collection was super clean, with V-neck tunics and skinny wool pants, sleeveless wool coats, mini-shifts and graphic uses of color amid the neutrals, like a cropped sleeveless jacket in burnt-orange wool over a salmon turtleneck.

At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci also toned things down, opening with a plain beige coat buttoned over a prim lace top and slim pants. Yet the striking difference at Givenchy is that while the silhouette might be more strict than in the past, there is more variety and sexiness in his clothes than in other collections toeing the minimalist line.

Among the standout looks were shifts that mixed leather and lace and black velvet parkas. Jolts of Lido red also saved everything from looking too serious. Skirts and high-waist pants peeled opened in the front with the release of a zipper, creating a contrasting fold. It was an interesting effect that Mr. Tisci might have refined or, with further thought, eliminated.

It’s fair to say that the chief interest of Karl Lagerfeld is Lagerfeld. He is not a minimalist today and something else tomorrow. His fashion always balances two opposing ideas: the love of domestic order and self control, expressed in rigorous tailoring, and an interest in the new, reflected in the slick black materials in his latest Karl Lagerfeld line. Trim skirts and leggings have the gloss of a touch-pad screen or, if you like, the kinkiness of latex. The material is actually patent leather. Mr. Lagerfeld’s idea for jackets, in black wool, was to cut them close to the body, with zippers and pressed-down folds for a sense of geometry.

In the last weeks a lot of people have had Alexander McQueen on their minds. The collection he was working on at the time of his death will be shown informally, starting Tuesday. A number of designers, including Ms. McCartney, mentioned his name in their show notes.Hussein Chalayan actually went to the trouble to compose something. In a voice-over before his show, he said that Mr. McQueen was interested in history and myth. He ended by saying, “Really, his sensitivity was his genius.”

Then, in a simple and effective way, Mr. Chalayan evoked the arbitrariness of taste and style, indeed of events. The first sound as the models appeared in beautiful tailored coats was of road traffic and birds. Although well done, the coats maybe weren’t so special, as Mr. Chalayan seemed to imply by showing them with sneakers and Dutch bonnets.

With the flick of a radio dial, the noise shifted to a news report of a hurricane in Texas. The fashion, too, changed: sweatshirts with metallic-looking craters on the shoulders and leather jackets covered with crocheted piñata curls. Each garment was distinctive and well done, but like the weather or our interest, it was also subject to change. The effect of that visual experience, as Mr. Chalayan suggested in his one-word title, was like that of a “Mirage.”

Special effects have become a feature of John Galliano’s shows, with fire and glitter spouting from jets near the runway. But instead of adding to the spectacle, the features just serve to remind us that a Galliano show is mostly smoke and mirrors. It’s easy enough to spot the fab pieces — a taupe astrakhan blouson, printed tribal trousers and leggings, a sweet peasant blouse — but the ground is pretty familiar.

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How to avoid looking like a tourist

tourist

Hawiian shirt... tick. Huge camera... tick. Do you look like a tourist? / AAP

tourist

It's ok to ask for directions, just make sure you do it discreetly.

YOU can spot them in any big city: gaggles of backpack-lugging, snapshot-taking outsiders who always seem to be at every major landmark.

They're often loud, sunburned and dragging along a bunch of screaming kids. They're tourists.

While not all tourists are that bad, when strangers come to your town or city, you can usually spot them a mile away. And that means that con artists, pickpockets and people who are just looking for an excuse to be inhospitable spot them too.

AskMen.com has put together these tips to help you blend in and get the most out of your trip:

Do your homework
It always helps to have some background information on where you're going.

Knowledge of the local customs or history can help you avoid sticking out - or even offending the locals. You don't want to try to get a meal in a small town in Spain, for example, when everyone has closed up shop for their afternoon siesta.

Know the currency
Familiarise yourself with the exchange rate so you don't have to figure out how much the local money is worth every time you pay for something.

Avoid having to say things like: "How much is this worth in Australian dollars?" Find out the exchange rate the day before you leave, apply it to a $10 purchase, and use this scale to calculate the value of your expenditures. For example, if you know that €10 is worth $19 at a 1.57% exchange rate, you'll know that a €20 purchase is worth around $35 at the same rate.

Get familiar with your surroundings
This is the third thing that you should nail in order to avoid looking like a tourist. You can buy maps and guidebooks for most major cities around the world in big bookstores or on the internet. Once that's done, you can plan your itinerary and get familiar with the areas you'll be visiting.

Of course, it's not the same as being there. However, if you do your prep work, you're much less likely to be caught off guard by cabbies who like to take the scenic route. Furthermore, you don't want to get lost, or appear lost, in public.

Enlarge Travel tips: More travel advice

Learn a few words of the language
Get as familiar as you can with the local language. You don't have to be fluent, but it's very helpful to memorise a few basic words, handy phrases (such as "Where's the bathroom?") and common slang.

A real help would be to get yourself a dictionary - a pocket or travel-oriented one is best - before you go. Or better still; try downloading a language app on to your iPhone.

Get directions discreetly
Ever see a tourist standing on a street corner with a huge map unfolded? Would you want to look that clueless?

If you do get lost, find a quiet place to open up your map - a store or restaurant will do, providing they let you sit down for a while. Local businessmen and merchants, being established in the area, are also more likely to know the neighbourhood and to give you better directions than passersby.

Dress the part
Make sure your clothes are appropriate for the local culture and climate. Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt may be great for St. Petersburg, Florida, but they won't fly in St. Petersburg, Russia. Don't wear souvenir clothes that will give you away as a tourist instantly.

Don't carry heavy bags or other accessories you won't need. If you bring your camera, don't leave it hanging around your neck all day, or even in your hand. Keeping it at the hotel will not only allow you to blend in better, but you'll be less likely to have it damaged or snatched. If you carry it with you, put it in a shoulder bag when you're not using it.

Keep a low profile
Always be polite and unobtrusive. Remember, you're a visitor, so act as you would expect someone who is visiting your home to act. If there's a misunderstanding, don't lose your cool. Keep in mind that yelling won't help you be better understood.

Make sure you've replaced the dollars in your wallet with local currency, unless you're in a place where dollars are accepted. If it's practical, make sure you have enough cash on hand so that you don't have to keep getting your currency exchanged, which is often less convenient and more expensive abroad.

Don't travel in big groups or as part of an organised sightseeing tour. There may be strength in numbers, but numbers can also stick out and be unwieldy or downright inflexible when it comes to a change of plans.

Stray off the beaten path
If you can, avoid travelling in high season. You'll get a better feel for your destination if you're there when the other tourists are gone, plus you'll get better rates on airfare and accommodation.

Stay away from the obvious tourist traps. When picking restaurants, try some local cuisine instead of visiting a chain that you have back home. You didn't cross an ocean just to eat at another McDonald's, right?

Get help from the locals
If you already know someone who lives where you're going, get them to help you and show you around. They'll know where all of the good places to go are, and you'll likely be better treated if you're with a local.

Making new friends there isn't a bad idea either - just be wary of scams.

Otherwise, don't be afraid to ask for help from a hotel concierge or tour guide. It's their job to help you out, and they already know that you're an out-of-towner.

Read more...

Minimalism, and Plenty of It

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

JOHN GALLIANO A lamb blouson over a striped wool coat and pants.

Paris Fashion Week
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN A leather jacket embellished with crocheted curls.

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

GIVENCHY A lace and leather shift shown with boots and tights.

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

STELLA MCCARTNEY A minimalist notched coat in taupe wool.

Apparently everybody got the memo about minimalism.

The fall ready-to-wear collections continued their clean sweep as Stella McCartney sent out linear coats with only a little notch in the front for a detail and crewnecks and slacks so plain and simple, you had to remind yourself you weren’t looking at Ann Taylor.

Give the retail chain six months to catch up.

That’s how long it took for Phoebe Philo’s first Céline show, last October, to have an influence. Ms. Philo isn’t the only designer who likes simplified clothes. Indeed, Ms. McCartney’s spring clothes had the same attitude. But Ms. Philo’s ability to give Céline a look makes her the equivalent of a yardstick. Suddenly, it seems, everybody is using her strict measure as the rule.

Ms. McCartney’s collection was super clean, with V-neck tunics and skinny wool pants, sleeveless wool coats, mini-shifts and graphic uses of color amid the neutrals, like a cropped sleeveless jacket in burnt-orange wool over a salmon turtleneck.

At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci also toned things down, opening with a plain beige coat buttoned over a prim lace top and slim pants. Yet the striking difference at Givenchy is that while the silhouette might be more strict than in the past, there is more variety and sexiness in his clothes than in other collections toeing the minimalist line.

Among the standout looks were shifts that mixed leather and lace and black velvet parkas. Jolts of Lido red also saved everything from looking too serious. Skirts and high-waist pants peeled opened in the front with the release of a zipper, creating a contrasting fold. It was an interesting effect that Mr. Tisci might have refined or, with further thought, eliminated.

It’s fair to say that the chief interest of Karl Lagerfeld is Lagerfeld. He is not a minimalist today and something else tomorrow. His fashion always balances two opposing ideas: the love of domestic order and self control, expressed in rigorous tailoring, and an interest in the new, reflected in the slick black materials in his latest Karl Lagerfeld line. Trim skirts and leggings have the gloss of a touch-pad screen or, if you like, the kinkiness of latex. The material is actually patent leather. Mr. Lagerfeld’s idea for jackets, in black wool, was to cut them close to the body, with zippers and pressed-down folds for a sense of geometry.

In the last weeks a lot of people have had Alexander McQueen on their minds. The collection he was working on at the time of his death will be shown informally, starting Tuesday. A number of designers, including Ms. McCartney, mentioned his name in their show notes.Hussein Chalayan actually went to the trouble to compose something. In a voice-over before his show, he said that Mr. McQueen was interested in history and myth. He ended by saying, “Really, his sensitivity was his genius.”

Then, in a simple and effective way, Mr. Chalayan evoked the arbitrariness of taste and style, indeed of events. The first sound as the models appeared in beautiful tailored coats was of road traffic and birds. Although well done, the coats maybe weren’t so special, as Mr. Chalayan seemed to imply by showing them with sneakers and Dutch bonnets.

With the flick of a radio dial, the noise shifted to a news report of a hurricane in Texas. The fashion, too, changed: sweatshirts with metallic-looking craters on the shoulders and leather jackets covered with crocheted piñata curls. Each garment was distinctive and well done, but like the weather or our interest, it was also subject to change. The effect of that visual experience, as Mr. Chalayan suggested in his one-word title, was like that of a “Mirage.”

Special effects have become a feature of John Galliano’s shows, with fire and glitter spouting from jets near the runway. But instead of adding to the spectacle, the features just serve to remind us that a Galliano show is mostly smoke and mirrors. It’s easy enough to spot the fab pieces — a taupe astrakhan blouson, printed tribal trousers and leggings, a sweet peasant blouse — but the ground is pretty familiar.

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The Anonymous, the Rediscovered and the Camouflaged

Greg Kessler for The New York Times

NEW FACE Joan Smalls at Stella McCartney's show in Paris. Ms. Smalls has gone from catalogs to high fashion.

The Scene: a Viktor & Rolf Show on a cold winter day in a tent at the Tuileries.

“Is that Lenny Kravitz?” Michael Roberts, the style director of Vanity Fair, asked as he gazed across the catwalk at someone being mobbed by paparazzi in the celebrity section of the front row.

“No,” a French runway photographer said. “It’s Gary Dadow.”

“Who?” asked Brana Wolf, a seasoned fashion editor.

“Gary Dadow,” the photographer repeated. “The star of ‘Les Experts.’ ”

“Les What?” Ms. Wolf asked. “What kind of show is that?”

“It’s a big hit American TV show,” the photographer said.

“Well, I’m a big TV buff,” Ms. Wolf said, “and I never heard of it.”

“He means ‘C.S.I.,’ ” an American photographer chimed in. “It’s called ‘Les Experts’ in France.”

“Oh,” Ms. Wolf said. “And who is he again?”

“Gary Dadow,” the French photographer repeated, talking about the actor whose actual name is Gary Dourdan, and who, as it happens, recently announced that he would leave the series at season’s end.

“And that’s Lindsay Lohan beside him,” said Ms. Wolf, although the actress slash designer slash tabloid staple was also difficult to identify, with dyed brown hair and eyes concealed behind the sort of sunglasses hardly anybody wears besides celebrity also-rans.

And that was when someone else mentioned that fame is so cheap these days, that paparazzi fodder is so interchangeable, that celebrities are so dime-a-dozen, that often one has no idea whom the photographers are making a fuss about.

Perhaps, this person added, someone ought to invent celebrity Shazam, a fame app based on the music identification service available on cellphones.

That way, in a landscape prophesied with cold accuracy by Andy Warhol, one could point a camera phone at a given person and immediately learn which minor Italian soccer player or which trophy wife of which French intellectual or which former actor on a Jerry Bruckheimer crime-scene juggernaut one was gawping at.

The Scene: Backstage, one hour before the Stella McCartney show takes place on a gilded balcony of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera.

“It is what it is,” Ms. McCartney said, gliding through a space packed tighter than the No. 1 train at rush hour on a Friday night, referring to the show that was about to start. Looking around at the assembled models, model agents, model minders, photographers, news crews, hairdressers, makeup artists and one former member of the Beatles — her father, Paul — the newly lithe Ms. McCartney added, “At this point, there ain’t no going back.”

And at that moment, the seasoned casting agent James Scully called out “First looks,” signaling that it was time for the models to begin dressing.

And the makeup artist Pat McGrath brushed concealing powder beneath the eyes of Joan Smalls, a 22-year-old Puerto Rican beauty hailed, with characteristic fashion amnesia, by magazine editors and casting directors as the New Face of the Season after Riccardo Tisci, the Givenchy designer, signed her to an exclusive contract for his last couture show.

That there is nothing particularly new about Ms. Smalls, though, she would be the first to admit. Two years before her miraculous discovery here, she was working as a catalog model in New York and shooting Macy’s ads.

“I knew I had so much more in me,” Ms. Smalls said. “But it wasn’t until I changed agencies and they scrapped my book and sent me out again that Riccardo Tisci saw me, and then everybody just followed.”

And Ms. McGrath, who over her 20 or so years in the business has worked with every name model around, said, “You’re hanging around, and all of a sudden they see you, and you’re suddenly new all over again.”

A surprising number of top models started out as catalog girls, Ms. McGrath said, before being saved and repurposed for lucrative high-fashion work. “Back in the day, you paid your dues, and it was good for you because it made you understand the business much better,” she said. “If you’ve been doing underwear ads, my dear, you know what the business is about. You know how to sell the underwear.”

The Scene: Doursoux, an Army-Navy supply store on a side street near the Gare Montparnasse.

“This is pure Dries!” said an American fashion stylist, rummaging through a pile of French combat fatigues, referring to Dries Van Noten, whose collection was one of many here to use military uniforms as a point of departure. At 30 euros (about $40), they were a fraction of what many designer pants cost.

Based on the number of runways packed with more olive drab and camouflage cloth than one would ever see in “The Hurt Locker,” Paris seems set to become the next faux combat zone. Never let it be said that fashion is less than oblivious to current affairs. Yes, the United States is involved in two wars, but that did not deter the style mob from reconnoitering at Doursoux. “If I get a larger size and put a belt on it and paper-bag it, this will look amazing,” the stylist said.

Three days into the week, buyers from stores like Bloomingdale’s had already followed her into the bins of vintage fatigues and Russian army coats and vinyl kit bags devised for the Japanese army. Troops of the Japanese editors who descend on the city during Fashion Week had cleaned the place out of the nipped camouflage jackets and blanket-weight peacoats that Junya Watanabe used as the basis for a show that Julie Gilhart, the fashion director of Barneys New York, called “really commercial and sellable.” And George Cortina, a stylist who does work for influential mega-chains like H & M, has been spotted around Paris wearing gear that made it seem as if he might move out of the Ritz and into a pup tent.

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