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Japanese consumers, meanwhile, are fascinated with what the Western world is wearing -- on and off the catwalk -- and publications feed them blow- by-blow reports of the trendy clothes worn by fashion editors like Emer Paul of U.K. "Glamour," seen here outside the Christian Dior show in March.

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