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FAST FORWARD

So there you are in your beloved Fall/Winter 1999 denim, dreaming of the first warm day when you can flaunt all those skimpy Spring 2000 handkerchief tops, even as you're looking at same day coverage of the herringbone heavy Fall/Winter 2000 collections on the Internet. Is it too much, too soon? Is there too much fashion information going through your brain? According to "Continental Tailor" Helmut Lang, it is time to banish the idea that "every new season means a designer should reinvent himself and throw away all the best things that he does in the name of novelty". In what resembled a strategy used by Parisienne maverick Martin Margiela, Lang presented a Fall collection so similar to his Spring 2000 collection, it seemed almost to be a willful negation of the fast forward antics of fashion these days. MODELS.com was unable to solicit an opinion however, on the crucial subject of Gisele's now legendary pre-show walk out (when it became clear she had only one turn on the runway). But what is fashion without drama?

BACK TO BASICS

Come the second week of March, photo-studios from Manhattan to Paris will be filled with the clicking and clacking of hot shutterbugs shooting the new Fall 2000 campaigns. After two seasons of rock star chic and hip-hop edge, Calvin Klein's CK is returning to the "cool young models" philosophy. Look out for a new flock of strange and interesting boys and girls to dominate Steven Klein's lens as he once again shoots the most coveted youth culture campaign of them all. (And as soon as the film is dry you'll read all about them here on MODELS.com).