PARIS_The seasons were out of whack at Chloe.

Inside the show Tuesday, it was a sauna, with editors and fashion journalists fanning themselves with the collection notes. But on the French luxury label's spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear catwalk, it felt like the dead of winter, with models sporting heavy woolen blanket coats and snug Ralph Lauren-esque fall tweeds.

The collection, by designer Hannah MacGibbon, cannibalized heavily on last season's offerings, nubby ponchos and oversized man's blazers which didn't look at all out of place on a fall-winter catwalk. But for spring-summer?

Even the color palette _ neural hues of putty, moss, khaki and ivory _ had an autumnal feeling about it.

The best pieces in the collection were the diaphanous dresses that came at the end of the show, right when the audience of sweat-covered fashionistas was fast approaching heat stroke.

The ankle-length dresses, in featherweight plissed chiffon, were pure Chloe: casual, girly, romantic and light _ and just the opposite of the heavy, dense pieces the audience had just sweated through.

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