A model wears a sequinned halterneck dress by British fashion designer Julien Macdonald during London Fashion Week, February 21, 2002. The sparkling, barely-there slips of dresses still crown Macdonald's shows but now there is an added dimension of swashbuckling drama and romance and razor-sharp tailoring.

A model wears a slashed black halterneck dress by British fashion designer Julien Macdonald during London Fashion Week, February 21, 2002. The sparkling, barely-there slips of dresses still crown Macdonald's shows but now there is an added dimension of swashbuckling drama and romance and razor-sharp tailoring.

A MODEL WEARS A SEQUINNED HALTERNECK DRESS BY BRITISH FASHION DESIGNER
JULIEN MACDONALD DURING LONDON FASHION WEEK.


A model wears a sequinned halterneck dress by British fashion designer
Julien Macdonald during London Fashion Week, February 21, 2002. The
sparkling, barely-there slips of dresses still crown Macdonald's shows
but now there is an added dimension of swashbuckling drama and romance
and razor-sharp tailoring. REUTERS/Ferran Paredes

A MODEL WEARS A SLASHED BLACK HALTERNECK DRESS BY BRITISH FASHION
DESIGNER JULIEN MACDONALD DURING LONDON FASHION WEEK.


A model wears a slashed black halterneck dress by British fashion
designer Julien Macdonald during London Fashion Week, February 21,
2002. The sparkling, barely-there slips of dresses still crown
Macdonald's shows but now there is an added dimension of swashbuckling
drama and romance and razor-sharp tailoring. REUTERS/Ferran Paredes

A model wears a halterneck dress by American fashion designer Ben De
Lisi during London Fashion Week, February 18, 2002. De Lisi's autumn
2002 collection is inspired by the faded colours of old postcards and
the exoticism of travel in more leisured times, with a modern twist.
REUTERS/Ferran Paredes

FP/ASA

A model wears a one piece halterneck top and hot pants design by Amaya Arzuaga on the first day of London Fashion week, September 23, 2000. Forty nine desigeners from around the world will be showing their Spring/Summer collections on catwalks at the Natural History Museum and other locations around London over the next five days.

PM/JRE

A model for French fashion house Chanel designed by German designer Karl Lagerfeld presents this pink evening gown with buttoned halterneck bustier as part of his Spring-Summer 1999 Haute Couture fashion collection, January 19.

GW/GB

Auctioneer Lord Charles Hindlip takes bids for a short, draped halterneck dress embroidered overall in a scrolling design of glass beads by Catherine Walker at the auction for dresses formerly belonging to Diana, Princess of Wales at Christie's auction house in New York, June 25. [The dresses are being sold for the benefit of the Britain's Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund and AIDS Crisis Trust]. This dress sold for $68,000.