with Alan Whicker

...for it's feathers all the way within the guarded, gilded salons of High Fashion, where one dress can cost £3,000
...a puff of plumes. a shimmer of sequins, a knock of naked knees as the waist-makers and swishbucklers prepare to change the Shape of Woman... the autumn sleeves drift by the catwalk in the most frenzied weeks of the year: the Winter Collections, when Paris provides 'the look a woman must have to seduce'.