Fashions for Fin-de-siecle Spring

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Fashions for Fin-de-siécle Spring

"This spring is a season of prettiness, innocence and illuminating
color," proclaims Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's fashion director
for the past sum of two units decades. "As the century unwinds, spring has an air
of ease about it," explains the longtime "King of Fashion," adding
that "a relaxed attitude has replaced rigid tailoring and given way
to a touched sensual silhouette."

Ruttenstein, who will be 60 when he ushers in the millennium, is a
large, spherical ...