http://www.coutorture.com Coutorture en http://www.coutorture.com/3192973 <a href="http://www.coutorture.com/3192973"></a><div class=quote_container><span class=start>&#147;</span><p class=quote_content>The 1940s look also pinpoints the defiant glamour of Paris during the occupation. Those wartime clothes - the strict, tailored jackets or floral dresses, set off with whimsical hats, scarlet lips and shoes made from any material other than rationed leather - represent to the French the “R word”: Résistance. But a new exhibition tucked away behind the Gare Montparnasse in Paris suggests something more intriguing. That it is R for recession that brings out utilitarian elegance and creative ingenuity that we are again experiencing in 2009. </p><span class=end>&#148;</span><span class=source><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/fashion/26iht-fforties.html?ref=global">"Recession Looks-1940s and Now"</a>, International Herald Tribune </span></div> http://www.coutorture.com/3192973#comment quote Suzy Menkes feature International Herald Tribune 1940s Tue, 26 May 2009 05:31:32 -0700 coutorture http://www.coutorture.com/3192973