Another problem is that while this show is patently directed at and created for women, the speakers at the launch event (packed with well-turned-out, influential women) were three dull men and one model who appeared to be recycling her speech from an article she wrote for Vogue, substituting "ball gowns" for summer dresses.

WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: All Dressed Up, But Going Nowhere

Cut at some remove from Barbara Karinska's original light-and-breezy creations, Mr. Loquasto's short dresses for the women and shirts and slacks for the men are trimly tailored but dull of detail.

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Not that Bryan Singer has a particularly light touch, and indeed the script's narrative bookends land with a dull thud, but at least the "X-Men" director hasn't succumbed to the self-important bloat that mars Peter Jackson's work these days.

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