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The Wonton Way
Davé—a slightly threadbare Chinese restaurant off the Rue Saint Honors in Paris—is fashion's unlikely answer to Rick's Café. In the collections' high season it attracts as motley a crowd as assembled in Casablanca: French and Japanese designers, American retailers, Arabian royalty, German photographers, models of uncertain nationality, et al. Davé (pronounced Dah-vay) himself is a spherical man who ascribes his status as fashion magnet to his lack of interest in the "ordinary-looking." "People in fashion are never ordinary," says Hong Kong-born Davé, "at least not in the way they look. Their true natures I can't judge."
BEN BRANTLEY
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