(NYT53) NEW YORK -- Feb. 10, 2006 -- FASHION-WEEK-ADV12-3 -- In mufti rather than designer clothes at New York Fashion Week on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2006, are, from left, Tiiu Kuik of Estonia; Anouck Lepere, Belgium; Kerstin Mannik, Estonia; Jacquetta Wheeler, Britain; and
Caroline Winberg, Sweden. To calculate the extent of Fashion Week's global mixture, one has only to consult the official show roster, where the offerings this season alone included the Turkish designer Atil Kutoglu, the Japanese Akiko Ogawa, the Serbian Dragana Ognjenovic, the French-Armenian Anait Bian, the Briton Alice Temperley, the German Wolfgang Joop, the Malaysian Zang Toi and the Brazilian Carlos Miele, who, despite enormous commercial success in his own country, is committed to making it here. (Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times)
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