Runway Beauty: Givenchy Fall '06 Couture

Some curious facial embellishments at Givenchy. Hmmm. There's something about them that suggests a strange mixture of obscure ethnic cultures. Gallic soldiers from the Middle Ages? More Crusaders? Warriors of a tribe that exists only in the designer's imagimation? Style.com's runway review identifies Bosnian, Indian, African, and Indonesian cultures as influencers. It's just odd to see this with