Window Shopping: Monique Lhuillier's Kite Runners

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Monique Lhuillier's Melrose Place boutique has consistently fantastic, transportive windows. Currently, the display captures a sophisticated, dreamy whimsy. Dressed in black-and-white cocktail and evening gowns, filmy dresses and kite strings flutter in the breeze, while you envision this other life where you would be so fancily dressed while flying a kite. And scene.