Other designers are taking pattern in a new direction this year.

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Ms. BOYKINS: Well, I think the children are only taking the pattern that we gave to them, and they are, as the to--there's Michael Jordan in everything that we handed down to them.

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Morgan, a similar pattern may be taking shape in Paris, where rents have risen by 30% in the past two years, and in Stockholm.

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