Then he spent the spring playing for Paris Saint-Germain, which won France's Ligue 1.

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Blame Rooney Mara (or the androgynous computer-hacker character she plays in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), but the spring couture shows in Paris this week definitely had a punk-rock attitude.

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On the recommendation of several British fashion editors, I visited Vestiaire Collective, the Paris-based resale (translation: the clothes are preowned) site that launched in the U.K. last spring and now ships to the U.S. The selection is thoroughly high-end (celebrities Sophie Dahl and Rachel Weisz have donated goods), and each piece is vetted by in-house specialists who are trained to weed out fakes.

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