Palomo's modern emperors open men's Fashion Week in Paris Men's fashion week got underway in Paris at the Spanish Embassy today. It was not quite the return of the toga, but Spanish designer Alejandro Gomez Palomo turned the fashion clock back 2,000 years with his "Pompeii' collection. The flamboyant Andalusian conjured up Rome at its most decadent with a procession of young men who he claimed had just stepped from the frescos and mosaics of the lost city of Pompeii. IMAGES