Yves Saint Laurent's King's counsel, David Bernstein, argued that his client had been using red as a signature colour since the fashion house was founded in 1962 and that even Prince Louis XIV of France and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz had red-soled shoes. He went on to question whether Louboutin's Red Sole trademark, which the French cobbler attained in New York in 2008, was even valid and ask whether any artist can monopolise a colour: "We are unaware of any case in which a court has upheld trademark protection to a mark consisting solely of a segregate color on a portion of an article of apparel," - a debate further inflamed this week by Giancarlo Giammetti, the ex officio president of Valentino, who stated that if any house should have a monopoly on red, it should be Valentino.

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Florence Welch, front number of Florence and the Clique, is fa the U.S. leg of her period of service in a few weeks, and hasn’t a feature to corrode. “I have to get my valise together,” the eagerness-haired balladeer said at the Yves Saint Laurent show Monday Stygian, rattling off gigs in New Orleans, New York and Los Angeles. Salma Hayek, Claudia Schiffer, Hag Jagger and Hong Kong pop celestial Joey Yung also took in the show. French actress Vahina Giocante said she decent finished an Israeli cinema titled, “The Unforgettable,” in which she plays a photographer and scribe. “It’s a bit like ‘Blood Diamonds,’’ she explained. Turns out Giocante is an inferior shutterbug, preferring to spell “surrealist” images.

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