UNITED KINGDOM: Supermodel Naomi Campbell appears in fur coat at Julien Macdonald's autumn/winter collection at London Fashion Week while classicist Jasper Conran keeps it simple

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  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Supermodel Naomi Campbell appears in fur coat at Julien Macdonald's autumn/winter collection at London Fashion Week while classicist Jasper Conran keeps it simple
  • Date: 15th February 2007
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) DESIGNER JASPER CONRAN SAYING: "If you start saying you shouldn't show thin girls then what about showing beautiful girls? Will that also make people feel bad about themselves? You know, where does it end?"
  • Embargoed: 2nd March 2007 12:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA4CWNYX6RYSWGS9VAKUOP7BTW1
  • Story Text: Showman designer Julien Macdonald shows a luxurious, flashy autumn/winter collection at London Fashion Week while classicist Jasper Conran keeps it simple.
    Supermodel Naomi Campbell made an appearance on the catwalk at London Fashion Week on Tuesday (February 13), wearing a voluminous black coat with a fur collar at the Julien Macdonald show.
    Macdonald is known for his glamorous party dresses in luxurious fabrics and for his use of fur. Animal rights protesters have disrupted his shows in the past.
    His autum/winter 2007-2008 collection was mainly black with a figure-hugging sillhouette. Beading featured heavily, as did gold and silver sequin.
    Macdonald said his use of Naomi Campbell illustrated his dislike of ultra-think models.
    "I don't agree with skinny models and the fact that I don't agree with it, I opened the show with Naomi Campbell, who is a woman of 32 years old, she's a normal woman, she's not anorexically skinny and she never has been. And, you know, women look good in my clothes being women. They don't have to be anorexically thin."
    Macdonald graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 1996 and launched his own label collection in 1997. He was Creative Director of Givenchy in Paris from 2001-2004 and was awarded an OBE in the Queens Honours list in June 2006.
    Well known for his classic monochrome tailoring, there were no surprises in the Jasper Conran show.
    Britain's foremost modern classicist showed plenty of his favourite blacks and browns, in simple jackets slim-fit trousers and micro-mini skirts.
    For evening wear, black and chocolate brown dominated, in billowing, diaphanous ballgowns and layered chiffon.
    Conran said he wouldn't cast unhealthy models to show his collections, but said the debate was in danger of getting out of contral.
    "If you start saying you shouldn't show thin girls then what about showing beautiful girls? Will that also make people feel bad about themselves? You know, where does it end?"
    Conran is one of Britain's most commercially successful designers, known for his clean-lined, subtly tailored shapes and high-quality fabrics.
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