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THE NEW drop-shouldered silhouette, the most significant trend for winter 2011, featured strongly in Marc Jacobs’s collection for Louis Vuitton yesterday, drawing a strong Paris season to a close.

Its theme was fetishism, fashion and French chambermaids, with usherettes outside vamping it up beforehand in aprons, black stockings and feather dusters.