His show, held under lantern-shrouded chandeliers in an old Paris mansion, recalled some of the East-West glamour of the 1930's, particularly in broad-shouldered furs spliced with strips of black tulle and a stretch black wool suit with exaggerated epaulets of monkey fur.
"He's from the old regime," said Mr. Zinhom, 22, as Mr. Moussa spoke under lanterns strung across the town square.
The man and woman under the lantern were laughing, each with half a Martini remaining.
The full deployment of the devices follows trials, which involved 28 police forces using technology developed under the Lantern programme to test how mobile fingerprinting performs in an operational environment.
A waiter carried two Martinis, one red and one orange, to an elegantly dressed Bolivian couple sitting under a lantern made from strands of red and orange alpaca wool.
Two German films well worth checking out are Under the Lantern (1928), the story of a good girl's descent to a life on the street, and Harbor Drift (1929), a story of misery surrounding a pearl necklace.
Then you get out, towel off and wander over for a four-star meal under glowing lanterns and Caribbean stars.
Patrons will enter through a Buddha-ish cutout, under red lanterns, and segue past images of Chairman Mao and Frida Kahlo.
UNDER a lantern-strung walkway, gaudy signs mark musty shops stuffed with Chinese porcelain vases, marble lions and decorated screens -- seemingly a typical Chinatown street.
Under silk lanterns, diners can make their way from Chinese soups and delicate dumplings to emphatically French desserts (apricot tart with almond ice cream, for one).
Even in "Amazon," where Arulpragasam sings of being "blindfolded under homemade lanterns / somewhere in the Amazon, they're holding me ransom," she also observes, "Palm trees in the wet smells amazing".
