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Milan fall shows highlight new directions in materials, elegance MILAN -- Elegance. Thats one big part of the Milan fashion offerings for fall. Ken Downing, fashion director of Americas luxury retailer Neiman Marcus, says his customer will spend up to $1 million a year (thats $1 million for one woman) on clothes and accessories. He says this woman wants to look rich again. In Milan, that means she will wear circumspect suits that are vested, sleeved or swathed in fur, especially colored fox, goat and astrakhan. It means figure-skimming sheath dresses, pencil or pleated skirts worn with estat