PARIS, October 2, 2008
By Nicole Phelps
Jasmine Al Fayed has apparently decided it's time to get serious. Six seasons in, she's traded her party-dress formula for a new focus on tailoring. Her jackets, with their slightly eighties shape (elongated torso, strong shoulder, scrunched-up sleeves) felt very now, as did a lounge-y pair of genie pants and a loose-legged satin jumpsuit. But it was hard to find an organizing principle for much of the rest—from a macramé maillot with dangling fringe to a floor-length T-shirt column to a strapless baby doll with a sweater tied over the shoulders—beyond the models' curly, bright orange wigs and mirrored shades
