Lagerfeld toyed with cross-dressing gothic-Jacobite variations on the kilt, with sporran bags and hip-flasks, riffing on Celtic pewter and pearls, baggy sweaters and woollens fit to adorn an ice queen on her wedding day.

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He didn't make a big deal of it, though he did coach Commissioner Stern on the proper way to strap his sporran, the pouch traditionally worn over the front of the kilt that contains one's wallet and car keys.

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We also observed that the sporran makes an extremely handy man-bag in which to store festival essentials -- Blackberry, press pass, and Zimbabwean amounts of Euros, with which to purchase endless espressos and thereby ensure wakefulness during the most demanding screenings, in which a half-woman, half-chair would represent a relatively conservative plot.

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