French label Kenzo takes menswear on a magical carpet ride to the East

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jackets encrusted with burnished copper coins and feather-lightcotton dhoti pants.
Models whose eyes were smeared with black kohl paraded across afloor strewn with Oriental carpets, wearing trousers in vibrantshades of ochre, magenta, emerald and royal blue.
A jacket came in a patchwork of multicolored madras checks, whilecream waistcoats were embellished with ornate swirls of embroideryor tufted braids.
The display tapped into the current trend for exotic fashion, asluxury groups focus their growth plans on the Middle East and BRICcountries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to counteract a slumpin Western economies.
Earlier, Rosemary Rodriguez unveiled her first menswear collectionfor French label Thierry Mugler since taking over from Americandesigner Thomas Engelhart.
Rodriguez, the former protegee of veteran designer Paco Rabanne,already has experience working at Mugler in the heyday of itswomen's division in the 1990s.

Now turning her hand to menswear for the first time, she stayedtrue to the spirit of the house with crisp suits, some featuringcontrasting piping at the pockets and lapels, and white combattrousers with zippered pockets that were paired with black leathermotorcycle boots.
An icy blue crocodile skin waistcoat with a kimono collar reflectedthe flamboyance of the house's creator, who has retired fromready-to-wear to focus on his hugely successful line of perfumes,which include Angel and Alien.