PARIS (AP) " The British vote to leave the European Union and not the clothes were the talk of the front row crowd at menswear shows in Paris on Friday.
It started at Maison Margiela, a house for whom Briton John Galliano is at the creative helm, one of many examples of cross-pollination in European fashion.
Galliano was not present at the somber show, with some fashion insiders commenting that the slow-beat Leonard Cohen soundtrack aptly defined the mood of many British attendees, all of whom The Associated Press spoke to were opposed to a British exit, or Brexit.
"It's terrible," repeated several top British fashion editors at the show in the storied Latin Quarter in Paris.
Fashion is one of the global industries where Britons are at the forefront of power and influence " and so the Brexit vote was of particular interest. The most French of industries " haute couture " was even invented by an Englishman, Charles Frederick Worth, in the 19th century.