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Calvin Klein's fall message: color

July 2, 1996
Web posted at: 6:45 p.m. EDT

From Correspondent Elsa Klensch

NEW YORK (CNN) -- For the first time in seasons, New York designer Calvin Klein is touching up his fall runway wardrobe with color.

He has added rich, warm tones to his usual soft, neutral palette, and explains- he made the change because women today are more comfortable in color.

He provides plenty of brown, camel, apricot, cinnamon and raisin, and experiments with several shades of green. He also combines colors in several ways for some of the sexiest dresses of the season. (170K QuickTime movie)

"Fashion is about change and, for me, the philosophy is always the same ... that the clothes have to be really modern and make women look really beautiful," Klein said. "But, it's fun to keep changing and to change the silhouettes, to change the fabrics and to change the color. Color this fall is really going to change too, because there is color."

Klein does casual knitwear in matte jersey and wool. He says knitted fabrics are important for both day and evening as an easy solution for comfortable dressing.

"It's so modern to be comfortable. It's so modern to wear something that's easy, that travels well," Klein said. "It's so modern ... to find new ways of dressing to replace the tailored suit. You'll see everything from mid-suits to mid-coats ... to long cashmere, big cashmere dresses."

After dark, the collection is drop-dead evening wear.

"It's cut out, slashed, revealing skin ... with asymmetric cutouts in and on the back, in the front, in the side, in usual places," he said. "The evening clothes are very graphic. They're very sharp, they're very modern."

For Klein, the collection symbolizes somewhat of a new direction.

"I think it is a big change and yet when you see it, it just seems right and it seems perfectly natural."

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