Sari material and other ethnic touches are popping up again in the European couture houses ("Indian" shocking pink is big this year).

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Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stress balls.

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