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New York Fashion Week: Christopher Raeburn nails it with Victorinox collaboration

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For fall-winter 2011, U.K. designer Christopher Raeburn has created an eight-piece, limited-edition collection for Swiss Army knife maker Victorinox that's such a natural fit for both parties, it's hard to see how it wouldn't continue for many seasons to come.

The 28-year-old Raeburn's stock in trade is to design new, high-end garments using reappropriated military fabrics (parachutes, uniforms and the like) sold under the Remade in England label, and he took that approach with the Victorinox capsule collection, which is called Remade in Switzerland. It was inspired by -- and created from -- items the designer had found in the Swiss equivalent of army surplus stores.

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